The thumndowners did not realise they've received professional consultation for free, watchable and re-watchable anytiime they like, wherever they like. Back in the day, you had to a) know who to rely on; b) move your ass an GO THERE; and c) pay and hope you got your notes right and will remember. Yet, these are the same kind of people who could not function for a week without their precious smartphones; they could probably hardly even find their way back home in their own city ;) David will understand: perle ai porci ;) Pearls to the pigs. And I love pigs so... sorry piggies!:)))
damn right! I've travelled to London 12 years back for getting info like this... Now I'm here to see if this guy is doing it right, and yes, man , you're a great person! Glad you're around and push info and inspiration! There's so much involved in music production, one always feels they are forgetting stuff, and a re-cap is always nice. Talk to us about truncation and how bouncing a vsti synth in different bit-depths will sound different to the source (live playback). I've been bouncing the Virus Ti in REAPER in 64-bit, and only then, was the 3d image there. Even 32 bit files sounded flatter to the original digitally synthesized source sound (Virus ti USB). We're talking no converters here - it really was an eye opener for me.
I wrote out the checklist for anyone like me who has the information retention of a goldfish: 1. How's the performance of the musician? 2. How good is the instrument? 3. Check the phase between DI and amp 4. Volume ride each note of the bass if you have to (most important) 5. For specific notes that pop out use a dynamic EQ. Or multiband compressor if very inconsistent 6. Split the bass into "lows" and "everything else" (then you could ride the fader on just the low end for example, or compress one and blend it) 7. Use Meldoyne to extract a MIDI track from the audio signal and then blend the MIDI instrument (e.g. synth bass) underneath. 8. Saturate the mids and low mids (not the subs) to help it be heard in a mix better, and to help it translate to smaller speakers better
The synth-bass trick is huge. It's popular in cinematic music as well, as contra-basses become super muddy. But if you dial in a bass-synth, you have that "wow" effect.
Dooode... Your a channel thats a gift that keeps on giving.... I agree whole heartly with every point/recommendations you share....... In every video !! So many things that I discovered myself, but some forgotten... only for you top remind me of the importance of those musical/audio discoveries... Having not read all the comments... This maybe mentioned.. but if not... and i know you would agree.... If you are recording a Bass player, a bass tech / guitar tech, can save you from other issues dave points out... New Strings, Right Tension, Neck and truss rod in harmony.... Intonation, ect... My bass, for 20 years had a neck issue... Then ."AAHHHHHH" , One guy fixed the neck ., and ruled them all.... Ive put new strings, setup all pickups, bridge and intonation to the point, it is the bass i knew it could be.... If only I could go back and play those bass lines again.........Well , i could,.... but , Riding levels, smashing it with BWL seemed to do the job.... ;)
Thanks for all you do. I record country and gospel music but so much of what you teach transfers to any genre. Thanks again and God bless you and yours!
As always high quality stuff. I am an old and deaf wanna be Mix student. Read a lot of books, but your videos are an eye openers. Every time I watch something from your channel I got an enlightment. I must one day repay You. Ty.
Great things to apply, yesterday I was mixing a track and I couldn't feel the same bass as my reference, the problem was that I didn't had enough harmonic content on the bass, and I was applying the R-Bass from waves in wrong freq, to low in that case I changed to 136 Hz, and I get the sound I needed. As always great content and really happy that you confirm some things that I was already doing without being sure if they were correctly. Thanks for all the content this channel is gold.
I’m a very old fan of yours, and I can testify of your consistency in term of genuinely teaching and helping us! Thank you so much ! The volume trick is by far the most important one...
Using melody to get the midi signal to tuck under sub bass..this is gold, thank you. I’ve got some circumstances that I already know this would help with, thank you!
Riding IS the most important thing, you spoke some truth here my friend. Especially on messy performances, it prevents from using N compressors, where N is an integer equal to too many!
The better I feel like I have become at mixing, the more I end up at this channel somehow. This is both a positive, and a negative I guess. Since most of these I feel could be due to the content being is a certain way. Either way, I really appreciate the tips you give.
Nice! I recently added midi synth bass to my played bass guitars mainly to have consistent frequencies below 80 Hz… and it’s working amazingly well with rock music. I have 2 tips to add to your excellent checklist: 1) be sure that you can hear the bass frequencies (speakers, headphones, room treatment). 2) check bass masking from other tracks
I actually have a great trick for low synth…..now with plug ins such as sound city and ocean way studios try busing your synth track to a virtual room and put the stereo mics on for all three near, mid and far…..set up the room so that you pick up only the pre delay of the synth and tune that baby in …..your synth will go from decent to Dr. Dre!!!
A tip I’d like to share regarding phase is that you can use (without going overboard on the visual stuff) an oscilloscope to see if you are getting any cancellation. I use schulz audio for this.
Another common scenario: I have the stems, what sort of engineering / technicalities I should be aware of? I am your grandma and need the obvious being clarified. I personally had some things here and there with stems being in 48000 and my daw in 44100... figured them out but info will help a ton, even to those who already have a workflow when receiving stems. You are great man!!
Great info as always but something people watching this need to know is he can't train your ears, you still need to train your ears for these tips and techniques to work. Spending years practicing and learning to hear properly is key.
Hi David, one more great video as always. Thumbs up! 👍 I'm in a process of making a very similar video, namely a friend of mine asked me how to record heavy bass for metal, so I will follow up soon on this interesting topic. As I'm a contrabass player myself, I can tell that the biggest problem people have is the monitoring part and the untreated rooms. Low end in a mix can be biggest issue to hear and work on it thus. One trick as a workaround is to export the mix and listen to it elsewhere, on headphones also, so one can have at least a rough picture of what is happening in that spectrum.
Hey, David! I believe the join button is something that TH-cam is Geo fencing… I’m from Brazil and I do not have it here for your channel although I can see it in other channels…
Hello , what you mean by : 1° Ride each note of the Bass and 2 Split the bass into "lows" and "everything else" How to split that ( if you don't use a multiband compressor , what is the other solution) Thank you
5:45 "make sure you're not limiting the low end"; if I wanna use something like L2, how do I avoid applying it to the low end? I am on Cubase, so the solution may be slighly different, but generally speaking I have started to look for FX plugins that work in multiband mode, but if there is an easy way to do it with a standard like L2 without introducing phase incoherence I would love to know.
“ without hearing the material it’s pretty much impossible to spot what the problem is in that particular case…”. Fuck yeah! I wish more people were responsible as you are when teaching about audio… Really cool… Let’s bring a T-shirt with this quote…
Sorry Dude. I am still missing those instructional videos, the year has been a little hard... Looking forward to being a solid member all of 2020 :D. Sounds great!!! Really great great Channel and effort, Mixbus Dave is the Ish
Question for the bull pen: I imagine this touches on the early point that some notes on a bass guitar will resonate differently. I have a few basses of midrange quality, and I often find that for all of them, at least one or two frets just don’t have any sub frequencies. I did an experiment where I set my subwoofer crossover at 120hz, and then walked up the fretboard. Sure enough, random notes would simply not move the sub at all. Even if they were relatively low notes, and notes even higher would trigger the sub. Any specific tips on how to deal with that? Obviously, compression, and eq won’t be suitable. One technique I’ve used is just cut all the lows out of my bass, and then add a sub synth under the bass. That’s helped me with consistency, but sacrifices tone and feel. Any other thoughts out there?
Adding a sub bass is standard procedure (although cutting your low end is questionable). Modern music asks for a lot more and more extended low end than decades ago. The solution to that is to get a better bass and have it setup correctly. With that said, your experiment is somehow faulty for a couple of reasons, but basses will have wolf notes (actually many wll argue the more they have the better the quality, I'm not sure I agree with that but, anyway) all of them, it not normal for a bass not to "trigger" a sub set to 120hz, something is off with your bass or signal chain
Question of the day: Why do my speakers sound more dynamic than my headphones? I can get a mix right on my headphones but if I switch to my monitors, transients, percs etc are all poking out. Is it because my heaphones have a bad transient response?
Great advice. I love bass. I love playing it, especially with a tight drummer. Bass was the first thing I ever got paid to play. Guitar players (which I mostly am) are not going to like this, but speaking of masking, your guitar may sound fantastic by itself with its own fat bottom end, but in a mix I roll it off whenever the bass is playing, using automation on an EQ. If you have a muddy mix, an indistict bass guitar, this may be the fix. Can you do a part two video on low end talking about getting the kick and bass working together? That is still challenging for me and probably lots of others. Thanks. You are great. (¿De donde eres? Amo tu acento. )
What do you think of Bass rider by waves ? if you have used it that is. I did pickup a a plugin named Subloom by Mixland that could be good for your suggestion for the synth bass enhancement it kind of splits it for you in a way, I'm curious if you would like that plugin.
When you say to ride the fader of the bass, do you print that to a new track, or do you just have the automation run as you're mixing? Lots of awesome tips here man. Thanks!
Hi, someone told me, that separate the low end to one track, and the other only for the mids, treat them differently, could help resolving the phase problem. Is that true? Also later you can double the track where all the mids are "living", and put there some distortion, also play with that, in verses, bridges, chorus. Anyway, excellent work, thank you very much for all the insights. Cheers from Portugal.
Man, great video! Riding the bass is something I’ve often overlooked. I have a bass that has both the woofy notes and the notes that just disappear. I normally used the parallel trick you mentioned. I was wondering if you think the “Rider” plug in by waves would be sufficient in this duty or do you think it’s much better to just do it manually and write in the automation?
Hey David, what do you think about phase inversion due to high pass filter (both on single tracks and 2Buss)? Would you suggest a low shelf would be better? Nowdays it seems to become a new hot topic! Thank you in advance!
Question about drums: How do you think it affect the sound and is it important when all lugs are not exactly at the same tension but pitch is the same at each lug?
@@mixbustv Well i was thinking if the tension are not the same at each lug, the drum head doesnt move at it's best and has some weak points. If all lugs have same tension, each point of contact make the corresponding area on the drum head vibrate the same way as the other ones. Like imagine a speaker that is not screwed properly into it's enclosure, i bet it would move not at it's best...
Do you see mixing and mastering as separate processes? wouldn't it be easier for the mixing engineer to do the whole thing himself? Because we see lots of issues when different people are responsible for mixing and mastering.
@@mixbustv i saw kevin shirley complaining about mastering in his late work with iron maiden, and it made me wonder how much mixing engineers have to mix thinking about what the mastering process will do to the mix, so that motivated my question. I often catch myself thinking "mmmm i'm not going to bring these drums down because mastering is going to squeeze it" and so on. As a mixing engineer, aren't you supposed to leave the extra headroom that mastering needs to work properly? Doesn't it make your mix sound too quiet and flat? In modern production, does it still makes sense for these processes to be separated? I even saw Nolly mixing with compression and limiter on stereo out so he could have a "better notion on how his mix would sound after mastering". Mastering can dramatically change the sound of a mix, so how does the artist approve the mix without the mastering? Anyways, great channel, great videos, great content, thanks!
Don't think me cheap, I have a lot going out monthly atm, however, I was considering a JOIN starting at the bottom level, because it's a small amount and I figure it's probably worth supporting the channel from which I've gained a lot of insight. But one question, how come US patrons pay $1.99 and UK patrons (that includes me) pay £1.99, which is more?
@@mixbustv The vid you made defining the levels, prices & perks, show US dollar prices 1.99, 4.99, 9.99 and 24.99, the UK sterling prices are 1.99, 4.99, 8.99 and 22.99, so as it goes up in levels it comes down a litlle, but the first 2 are the same, meaning more expensive in UK pounds. Hey look, in the new year, I'll probably just sign up to level 1 (for now) as £2/month is not a lot, I was just interested that the prices didn't match. Value is perceived, anyway, so if I honestly thought Level one was only worth £1.51, then I wouldn't pay £1.99, but I do think it's a small contribution to a channel that I like
Oh and in the studio at Mexico City we have one of those amazing Waves Limiters that algo has a MaxBass button :) really love to toggle with that baby but it’s a little pricey to recommend it
The thumndowners did not realise they've received professional consultation for free, watchable and re-watchable anytiime they like, wherever they like. Back in the day, you had to a) know who to rely on; b) move your ass an GO THERE; and c) pay and hope you got your notes right and will remember. Yet, these are the same kind of people who could not function for a week without their precious smartphones; they could probably hardly even find their way back home in their own city ;)
David will understand: perle ai porci ;) Pearls to the pigs. And I love pigs so... sorry piggies!:)))
@@mixbustv Figurati. E' la pura verità. Buon fine settimana!
I love, love, love your comment!
@@LetMeDieLord Thanks
damn right! I've travelled to London 12 years back for getting info like this... Now I'm here to see if this guy is doing it right, and yes, man , you're a great person! Glad you're around and push info and inspiration! There's so much involved in music production, one always feels they are forgetting stuff, and a re-cap is always nice. Talk to us about truncation and how bouncing a vsti synth in different bit-depths will sound different to the source (live playback). I've been bouncing the Virus Ti in REAPER in 64-bit, and only then, was the 3d image there. Even 32 bit files sounded flatter to the original digitally synthesized source sound (Virus ti USB). We're talking no converters here - it really was an eye opener for me.
Preach!
I wrote out the checklist for anyone like me who has the information retention of a goldfish:
1. How's the performance of the musician?
2. How good is the instrument?
3. Check the phase between DI and amp
4. Volume ride each note of the bass if you have to (most important)
5. For specific notes that pop out use a dynamic EQ. Or multiband compressor if very inconsistent
6. Split the bass into "lows" and "everything else" (then you could ride the fader on just the low end for example, or compress one and blend it)
7. Use Meldoyne to extract a MIDI track from the audio signal and then blend the MIDI instrument (e.g. synth bass) underneath.
8. Saturate the mids and low mids (not the subs) to help it be heard in a mix better, and to help it translate to smaller speakers better
Tnx bro..I found it helpful on d second watch....
Thank you much
d'man!
You rule, Nick!
its so obvious that this person is a master of his trade, extremely useful info as always
Audio engineering institutions hate you for this free knowledge!
I can't stop myself from appreciating u sir.🙏💜
Thank you!
I salute you once again David. You are just so inspiring! Thanks you.
The synth-bass trick is huge. It's popular in cinematic music as well, as contra-basses become super muddy. But if you dial in a bass-synth, you have that "wow" effect.
best engineer advice i've come across
Dooode... Your a channel thats a gift that keeps on giving....
I agree whole heartly with every point/recommendations you share.......
In every video !! So many things that I discovered myself, but some forgotten... only for you top remind me of the importance of those musical/audio discoveries...
Having not read all the comments... This maybe mentioned.. but if not... and i know you would agree....
If you are recording a Bass player, a bass tech / guitar tech, can save you from other issues dave points out...
New Strings, Right Tension, Neck and truss rod in harmony.... Intonation, ect...
My bass, for 20 years had a neck issue... Then ."AAHHHHHH" , One guy fixed the neck ., and ruled them all....
Ive put new strings, setup all pickups, bridge and intonation to the point, it is the bass i knew it could be....
If only I could go back and play those bass lines again.........Well , i could,.... but , Riding levels, smashing it with BWL seemed to do the job.... ;)
You are a LEGEND. ALL. THIS. KNOWLEDGE. FOR FREE... 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🐐🐐🐐✨
I just love listening to this guy. Idk what it is but his voice is mesmerizing 😂
Great video. I would love to see a video with sound examples of what type of synth bass that sounds good when layering with an electric bass.
Thanks for all you do. I record country and gospel music but so much of what you teach transfers to any genre. Thanks again and God bless you and yours!
As always high quality stuff. I am an old and deaf wanna be Mix student. Read a lot of books, but your videos are an eye openers. Every time I watch something from your channel I got an enlightment. I must one day repay You. Ty.
Happy to help!
Damn, that was awesome lol
Mind blown!
Another legendary video from a legend.
Great things to apply, yesterday I was mixing a track and I couldn't feel the same bass as my reference, the problem was that I didn't had enough harmonic content on the bass, and I was applying the R-Bass from waves in wrong freq, to low in that case I changed to 136 Hz, and I get the sound I needed. As always great content and really happy that you confirm some things that I was already doing without being sure if they were correctly. Thanks for all the content this channel is gold.
I’m a very old fan of yours, and I can testify of your consistency in term of genuinely teaching and helping us! Thank you so much !
The volume trick is by far the most important one...
Thanks for the phase advice
Using melody to get the midi signal to tuck under sub bass..this is gold, thank you. I’ve got some circumstances that I already know this would help with, thank you!
Riding IS the most important thing, you spoke some truth here my friend. Especially on messy performances, it prevents from using N compressors, where N is an integer equal to too many!
The better I feel like I have become at mixing, the more I end up at this channel somehow. This is both a positive, and a negative I guess. Since most of these I feel could be due to the content being is a certain way. Either way, I really appreciate the tips you give.
You sir are a gentleman and a scholar
You are fxxx blessing! Thank you!
What a great video!!
Such a great comprehensive list
Excelente!
Nice! I recently added midi synth bass to my played bass guitars mainly to have consistent frequencies below 80 Hz… and it’s working amazingly well with rock music. I have 2 tips to add to your excellent checklist: 1) be sure that you can hear the bass frequencies (speakers, headphones, room treatment). 2) check bass masking from other tracks
Thanks for a lot of great ideas and info !
Basstastic!
Great tips, Could you give some tips for 808/Sub bass?
Thanks a lot David! The checklist was perfect!
I actually have a great trick for low synth…..now with plug ins such as sound city and ocean way studios try busing your synth track to a virtual room and put the stereo mics on for all three near, mid and far…..set up the room so that you pick up only the pre delay of the synth and tune that baby in …..your synth will go from decent to Dr. Dre!!!
A tip I’d like to share regarding phase is that you can use (without going overboard on the visual stuff) an oscilloscope to see if you are getting any cancellation. I use schulz audio for this.
Useful as always. Thank you :)
uZZZZeFULL
@@mika461983 :)
Loads of gold advice here!
Fader Riding 🎚️ Volume! First line of attack 💯
i see you have a UVI cup... what software do you use ? , thinking about taking the plunge on Falcon 2.... seems like a very powerful tool
@@mixbustv awesome! will check those others out!
Great discussion and good ideas, thanks, David!
A simple way to ride basses is using a plugin like "Bass Rider" by Waves Audio.
Another common scenario: I have the stems, what sort of engineering / technicalities I should be aware of? I am your grandma and need the obvious being clarified. I personally had some things here and there with stems being in 48000 and my daw in 44100... figured them out but info will help a ton, even to those who already have a workflow when receiving stems. You are great man!!
@sean rimada indeed, he sure is!
Great info as always but something people watching this need to know is he can't train your ears, you still need to train your ears for these tips and techniques to work. Spending years practicing and learning to hear properly is key.
True indeed
brilliant as allways....regards from colombia
Hi David, one more great video as always. Thumbs up! 👍 I'm in a process of making a very similar video, namely a friend of mine asked me how to record heavy bass for metal, so I will follow up soon on this interesting topic. As I'm a contrabass player myself, I can tell that the biggest problem people have is the monitoring part and the untreated rooms. Low end in a mix can be biggest issue to hear and work on it thus. One trick as a workaround is to export the mix and listen to it elsewhere, on headphones also, so one can have at least a rough picture of what is happening in that spectrum.
My highlight of the day when I see a new video from you David! Flex the badge! 😁❤️🤟
Great stuff man
Hey, David! I believe the join button is something that TH-cam is Geo fencing… I’m from Brazil and I do not have it here for your channel although I can see it in other channels…
Keep up the good work mate ! quality content
fucking love this guy. thanks again
the midi trick is key
Yesterday I bought Waves Bass Rider. Get it it’s great!!
Have any recording or mixing tips for the upright bass?
something like a square wave filtered would layer well under a bass guitar
what does 'ride the bass' mean? is it when u volume automate the notes so they are more balanced
Hello , what you mean by :
1° Ride each note of the Bass and
2 Split the bass into "lows" and "everything else" How to split that ( if you don't use a multiband compressor , what is the other solution)
Thank you
Any tips for unmasking low end without making midrange elements thin, weak, or harsh?
Such valuable info...
Thanks !
Thank David!
Wow seems obvious now, but that Melodyne trick is brilliant! Didn't realize you could extract MIDI from that !
If, because of some reason, your bass track is in stereo are you making sure that low end (below let's say 150Hz) is in mono?
Thank you so much
5:45 "make sure you're not limiting the low end"; if I wanna use something like L2, how do I avoid applying it to the low end? I am on Cubase, so the solution may be slighly different, but generally speaking I have started to look for FX plugins that work in multiband mode, but if there is an easy way to do it with a standard like L2 without introducing phase incoherence I would love to know.
I mix an album using ur tips , really helped
“ without hearing the material it’s pretty much impossible to spot what the problem is in that particular case…”. Fuck yeah! I wish more people were responsible as you are when teaching about audio… Really cool… Let’s bring a T-shirt with this quote…
Nice Bapho shirt and skull tats homie, thanks for the advice.
Sorry Dude. I am still missing those instructional videos, the year has been a little hard... Looking forward to being a solid member all of 2020 :D. Sounds great!!! Really great great Channel and effort, Mixbus Dave is the Ish
8:57 "...they will fart" is that what was said??
Hilarious!🤣
Like for smart guy, what did you say? How are you named it? The"`Wolves" notes?
What do u mean for write each note? Automation?
'Ride'
MixbusTV k thanks!!!
Wow so much good shit here
Thank you Van Damme as always!
Van Damme for true😁
Get that bass "pleked."
Good video
Question for the bull pen: I imagine this touches on the early point that some notes on a bass guitar will resonate differently. I have a few basses of midrange quality, and I often find that for all of them, at least one or two frets just don’t have any sub frequencies. I did an experiment where I set my subwoofer crossover at 120hz, and then walked up the fretboard. Sure enough, random notes would simply not move the sub at all. Even if they were relatively low notes, and notes even higher would trigger the sub. Any specific tips on how to deal with that? Obviously, compression, and eq won’t be suitable. One technique I’ve used is just cut all the lows out of my bass, and then add a sub synth under the bass. That’s helped me with consistency, but sacrifices tone and feel. Any other thoughts out there?
Adding a sub bass is standard procedure (although cutting your low end is questionable). Modern music asks for a lot more and more extended low end than decades ago. The solution to that is to get a better bass and have it setup correctly. With that said, your experiment is somehow faulty for a couple of reasons, but basses will have wolf notes (actually many wll argue the more they have the better the quality, I'm not sure I agree with that but, anyway) all of them, it not normal for a bass not to "trigger" a sub set to 120hz, something is off with your bass or signal chain
Question of the day: Why do my speakers sound more dynamic than my headphones? I can get a mix right on my headphones but if I switch to my monitors, transients, percs etc are all poking out. Is it because my heaphones have a bad transient response?
For riding notes on an electric bass...what's your opinion on using Waves bass rider for this? Great vids as always!
@@mixbustv Same here, i cant ever get it to sound natural, havent used it successfully.
Waves Bass Rider does a pretty good job of riding bass
Great advice. I love bass. I love playing it, especially with a tight drummer. Bass was the first thing I ever got paid to play.
Guitar players (which I mostly am) are not going to like this, but speaking of masking, your guitar may sound fantastic by itself with its own fat bottom end, but in a mix I roll it off whenever the bass is playing, using automation on an EQ. If you have a muddy mix, an indistict bass guitar, this may be the fix.
Can you do a part two video on low end talking about getting the kick and bass working together? That is still challenging for me and probably lots of others. Thanks. You are great. (¿De donde eres? Amo tu acento. )
what exactly is meant by ride each note? I'm assuming it has to do with setting the levels but could someone explain this to me please?
Make sure they ( each note ) are all at the same volume..ensures any processing has less work to do and will sound even 😁
Using a sub generator like BX_Subsynth vs synthesizing a bassline to layer below the bassline?
You have less control over the sound and phase
What do you think of Bass rider by waves ? if you have used it that is. I did pickup a a plugin named Subloom by Mixland that could be good
for your suggestion for the synth bass enhancement it kind of splits it for you in a way, I'm curious if you would like that plugin.
th-cam.com/video/n8sOGkRbIoQ/w-d-xo.html
Potential question... Could you share some of your approaches in mixing string ensembles or horn sections?
When you say to ride the fader of the bass, do you print that to a new track, or do you just have the automation run as you're mixing? Lots of awesome tips here man. Thanks!
My question is: When do you figure out your 2bus settings at mixing stage? Bests
MixbusTV so setting 2bus before going into details on singular tracks?
MixbusTV cool! I was kinda unsure on the process thx!
excellent
Hi, someone told me, that separate the low end to one track, and the other only for the mids, treat them differently, could help resolving the phase problem. Is that true? Also later you can double the track where all the mids are "living", and put there some distortion, also play with that, in verses, bridges, chorus. Anyway, excellent work, thank you very much for all the insights. Cheers from Portugal.
Man, great video! Riding the bass is something I’ve often overlooked. I have a bass that has both the woofy notes and the notes that just disappear. I normally used the parallel trick you mentioned. I was wondering if you think the “Rider” plug in by waves would be sufficient in this duty or do you think it’s much better to just do it manually and write in the automation?
What is to « ride » a bass please???
Ride notes. That mean just volumes?
Hey David, what do you think about phase inversion due to high pass filter (both on single tracks and 2Buss)? Would you suggest a low shelf would be better? Nowdays it seems to become a new hot topic! Thank you in advance!
@@mixbustv Missed that! Thanks!
Question about drums: How do you think it affect the sound and is it important when all lugs are not exactly at the same tension but pitch is the same at each lug?
@@mixbustv Well i was thinking if the tension are not the same at each lug, the drum head doesnt move at it's best and has some weak points. If all lugs have same tension, each point of contact make the corresponding area on the drum head vibrate the same way as the other ones. Like imagine a speaker that is not screwed properly into it's enclosure, i bet it would move not at it's best...
Is that a JBL LSR8? 😍
random question brotha, have you heard barefoot audio monitors? do you think they are worth the price? thanks
@@mixbustv thank you! appreciate your wisdom.
Ok. Enough of the lo end. What about the hi end - 10khz to 22khz. Also will it be silly to lo pass filter f beyond 22khz?
Do you see mixing and mastering as separate processes? wouldn't it be easier for the mixing engineer to do the whole thing himself? Because we see lots of issues when different people are responsible for mixing and mastering.
@@mixbustv i saw kevin shirley complaining about mastering in his late work with iron maiden, and it made me wonder how much mixing engineers have to mix thinking about what the mastering process will do to the mix, so that motivated my question. I often catch myself thinking "mmmm i'm not going to bring these drums down because mastering is going to squeeze it" and so on. As a mixing engineer, aren't you supposed to leave the extra headroom that mastering needs to work properly? Doesn't it make your mix sound too quiet and flat? In modern production, does it still makes sense for these processes to be separated? I even saw Nolly mixing with compression and limiter on stereo out so he could have a "better notion on how his mix would sound after mastering". Mastering can dramatically change the sound of a mix, so how does the artist approve the mix without the mastering? Anyways, great channel, great videos, great content, thanks!
@@mixbustv Thank you very much for taking the time to answer.
Don't think me cheap, I have a lot going out monthly atm, however, I was considering a JOIN starting at the bottom level, because it's a small amount and I figure it's probably worth supporting the channel from which I've gained a lot of insight. But one question, how come US patrons pay $1.99 and UK patrons (that includes me) pay £1.99, which is more?
@@mixbustv The vid you made defining the levels, prices & perks, show US dollar prices 1.99, 4.99, 9.99 and 24.99, the UK sterling prices are 1.99, 4.99, 8.99 and 22.99, so as it goes up in levels it comes down a litlle, but the first 2 are the same, meaning more expensive in UK pounds. Hey look, in the new year, I'll probably just sign up to level 1 (for now) as £2/month is not a lot, I was just interested that the prices didn't match. Value is perceived, anyway, so if I honestly thought Level one was only worth £1.51, then I wouldn't pay £1.99, but I do think it's a small contribution to a channel that I like
Who uses a mic on bass?
Anyone who carves his tone with a real amp and a cab
Oh and in the studio at Mexico City we have one of those amazing Waves Limiters that algo has a MaxBass button :) really love to toggle with that baby but it’s a little pricey to recommend it
Hardware :)
MixbusTV ooooooooi
David! OMG, you are brilliant... yes yes yes!
Get the bass right from the start! Listen to David
and save yourself hours of pure torture in hell :)
why you wearing that t shirt ???