Mixing Low End: The Ultimate Guide for Balanced Bass
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- Learn everything you need to know about mixing the low end. Discover how human hearing perceives low end frequencies and how using LUFS in mixing is important for low end clarity. Learn how to properly manage the rising level of low end in recorded music to compete with professionally produced material, what speakers and room treatment you need to effectively mix the low end, and what software you should use to balance your low end. By the end of this video, you will have a strong understanding of low end frequencies in modern mixes and how to perfect them in your mix with ease.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:45 What is “low end”?
03:10 Low end listening exercise
07:09 Best monitors for low end
11:17 Room treatment for low end
14:41 Headphones for mixing low end
16:24 Software for mixing low end
20:30 Cutting low end with high-pass filters for tonal balance
25:29 Eliminating frequency masking
29:54 Adding excitement to the low end
31:11 Using high-pass filters in mastering
33:21 Outro
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Me watching this with my subwoofer on thinking my apartment is about to get hit by a plane
Never forget
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Dang, had me for a whole 20 minutes before I realized I was being sold something. Amazing.
Uh. It's an iZotope video. lol
This must be one of the best tutorial videos out there! It inspires me to squeeze even more quality out of my mixes. 👍🏻
Your voice is so awesome that it reprograms directly my subconscious brain
😂😂😂😂
Its that mic lol
I feel the opposite
I'm not sure who came first, him or Kush Audio, but there's an uncanny rival and stylistic similarity
I read this just before the video loaded, you weren't joking😂
Wow, you really managed to explain so many things I haven’t been able to wrap my head around before, and in a very easy way! You’re a really good teacher 💪
Mixing music is by far the most complex task I have ever engaged in! Thanks for the great tutorials! You are a very skilled communicator. I worked so hard on a recent mix, only to send it off for mastering and found the low end resonance I worked so hard on ..to tame... came back to haunt me again with mastering/limiting.:(
because you mix in a small untreated room?
Show me your mixes :)
That is because your mastering engineer felt your mix was too boomy.
I felt this in my soul- I spent days mastering my track with headphones only for it to sound way too muddy on a couple speakers.
This was easily one of the best treatments of low end I've heard. I just hate that I'm not in my studio RIGHT NOW to try out some of these concepts!
You Are the Star Trek of music…. I have even learned how to “present” better! You serve as an on-site mentor. This is because of the detail. The extraction is “Wisdom”, not just knowledge. One comment referenced that they listened 20 minutes before realizing that they were being sold. “Selling” is problem solving. Finding a need and designing “the fix” is the best selling as well as integrity selling. When value is added, it is a win win. Finally, (I sound like you now) giving strategy that becomes an integrated skill set for life is best!
Yes, Jim, I agree with you and, if you have, take a look on "ARE YOU LISTENING" series on this channel, with Mr.Jonathan Wyner, fantastic!!!!!
Geoff explains these concepts so well, a joy to watch.
Really helpful presentation and great pedagogical skills. Thank you Geoff.
You cracked all queries for many at once in one video. Hats off to you.👏👏🙌
Excellent tutorial. I enjoyed and learned so much from it. One of the best, if not the best low end tutorial I’ve watched on TH-cam. Now it’s time for me to implement some or all of these strategies. I may have to remix some of my songs but it would be worth it. Thank you so much 👍🏿
This is one of the best "getting started" tutorials I've seen yet in this space, much appreciated.
An immaculate work of art to untangle the concept of frequency harmony. A+ for me!
Awesome Geoff! The most well explained, comprehensive instructional on low end I have seen, and I’ve seen a ton. 😮 Total Balance Control is on every project. And, more recently, Low End Focus.
Thank you for sharing this information in a way that is digestible instead of making it fancy to show off how much you know ❤
Thank you very much for your explanation! Low frequencies are my favorites. The bass guitar sound is very gentle for my ears!
Tonal Balance control 2 is now my major control surface in this last 6 months, this visual experience helped me to improved my mixing skills a lot.
been doing this a while... this is the most comprehensive low end content ive ever seen. ive been doing this a wile.
You sir are a very knowledgeable and gifted teacher. Thanks for sharing this with us! Bravo!! 👏
You guys are the best in the business you guys are on a different level with top level quality softwares
This Gentleman is the best instructor if you-will. If every encounter. I put my "Good" headphones on my bad android. And started the video over. To have someone explain technical specs and knowledge with such simplicity and with logic is not easy. I have always been a visual learner and with dysgraphia I had to discover. I loved this knowledge but school in the 80s perhaps still. Had teacher's in the science arena whom most near all left me feeling confused. I need to understand before my motor skills will memorize. Not to hug this post, schools are by in fact designed to have you memorize if you understand later or well memorizing you are over utilizing motor skills. The essence of Dysgraphia is to block anything that doesn't make sense. This is the crux of memorize teaching over understand. I have a whole new greater respect for Isotope. Thank You.
This is one of the best videos ever made. Very clear. AMAZING!!!!
Nice one! The part where you explained all of the frequency overlap in different instruments is really helpful.
I can say i have watched soooo many tutorials on YT and this one was one of the best ever watched. thank for this.
What a fantastic video. Thanks for all the knowledge.
I like the comment about plugging the base ports on a loud speaker for a tighter base. I've had an old fisher stereo from the 70s and it didn't come with ports on the speakers and the base sounded great. Glad to see someone else appriciating that type of base.
Great content.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Definitely doubling back to watch all the gold that I’ve missed in previous videos. Cheers!
This is one the greatest videos i've ever seen about mixing process. A huge thanks!
VERY good use of descriptive language to explain the "what" and "Why" in these scenarios. Saved some viewer years of trial and error with this one.
You have a good way to bring your wisdom to others. I really appreciate this.
Thanks for this very insightful video, Geoff. Closing the bass port of the near-field monitors is definitely a technique I will try-very interesting, I would never have thought of that. Learned something again, thank you so much!
Thanks❗️This video visualizes and clarifies so many parts of the low end challenge.
Can't thank you enough for painting a whole picture with intricate details. Loved it.
Thorough and fascinating
The amount of information I wrote down in my notepad surpasses every source of audio knowledge I looked up to this date.. Thank you so much for this
The most comprehensive tutorial on a subject I've ever seen. Thank you
Glad you're liking it!
this was so insightful, i've been underutilizing my izotope plugins so much. thank you for this
this might be the first of your tutorials i sat and watched patiently on regular speed haha i'll definitely be doing this more often. learned alot and excited to take my time learning more and implementing,
This video is unbelievably informative- thank you so much to Izotope and this extremely knowledgable gentleman!
Fantastic video! I have leaned to work with the acoustics of my room by making adjustments, but mostly by comparing my mixes to the sound of other professionally mixed and mastered songs, but this takes me a step further! I plan to look into the plugins you used and get to know them. Thank you!! ✌
Geoff, just a brilliant video. Thanks so much!
This is priceless teaching ! Bravo and Thank you very much !
I love your videos - informative, clear, and concise. I always end up learning new things that I can apply right away, with results. You asked for some tips and tricks of our own. Here's one that I've been using of late and I find helpful - using Mid-Side EQ on bass-heavy tracks and clamping down on the Side and filtering out the low end on the sides, to send most of the bass energy to the Mid. I feel like it helps in tightening the bass and allows me to tame it easier using some of the techniques you've already listed here. Anyway, great job, as always. Looking forward to more!
Glad you mentioned the importance of a good headphone amp! So important.
Awesome Info! I needed this. Will definitely have to watch it 16 more times.
Nice! Managing low end with your latest tools I found pretty straight forward…would love to see more techniques on managing mids especially multiple instruments and vocals competing for same space. Thanks.
Always more to learn. Great job!
This is an excellent tutorial. I learned so much. Please keep these coming
Incredible tutorial, so helpful and well explained!
Love this video!! Thank you so much! Amazing content!
Amazing work - so much knowledge, so well organized and so well presented! Thank you, Geoff!
Excellent guide! This was so good to watch! Great explanations!🔥
this great guy here is a gem. was a pleasure watching & listening
this is great, only the best engineers can explain complex things in such a simple way
Great video and presentation as always!
I was desperate with the low end resonating wildly in my room out of my Alesis monitors.
The idea of closing the resonator may be a life saver.
Great content in this video.
Thank you.
Love this series! ❤
Best information I've seen on this subject. Thank you!
Absolutely the greatest Mixing & Mastering instructor in my humble opinion. I have learned what feels like the zeitgeist of music production. I came up in Detroit with the origins of Techno. Pink Floyd introduced me to my love of synths. Rush Signals turned me into a full hearted lover of electronic music. Synth Pop was already moving me. I reached out to people on just synth musicians, I was introduced to JMJ. Industrial Music became very important to me. Today's production of IM has improved and the Kicks are phenomenal. With this lesson I'm nearing what feels like full confidence in my production skills. Thank You.
I’m from the Detroit metro area too!
Music is very important to me and especially the quality.
I’ve spent most of my life going to clubs.
Techno, rock, funk, jazz, hard core metal
I love it all and if you grew up in or around Detroit it’s in your blood.
Detroit is absolutely the best when talking music, any band will tell you Detroit always represents. ✌🏻
Great video. Thank you so much!
Really great video. I already knew most of this, but, I learned some new things. Thank you.
cheers, always a pleasure to listen to geoff
Love this tutorial!
This is one of the best tuts I've seen in a while! Thanks!
This is by far one of the best low end tutorials I’ve ever seen.
I’ve been using a similar unmasking technique with a side chain Waves F6 to what you did with the Neutron unmask. It was nice to see a confirmation of that technique’s validity. Also, I might start using Neutron to unmask in my low mids and up.
Really liked the recaps.
My room space is trash and I can’t mix loud without disturbing the fam, so I’ve taken to using Waves NX with Bayerdynamic headphones and it’s really more than I could ever ask for. Hoping to add a subpack hepatic feedback element into the rig to feel the low end as well.
Excellent vídeo.
Great video, will definitely use these techniques on my mixes, thank you!
I love this! Thank you for such an informative nugget of wisdom.
Gee. I know all this, been doing this quite a while. Why am I watching? This honestly is the best guide to low end I have ever seen. Just... excellent video. Thx for doing this!
This was amazing. Thanks!
This is really insightful
so much valuable info here.. thanks!
Great as always!
Hey thanks for this. Pretty awesome as I feel a couple steps further in understanding low end and EQ.
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This was really good! Thank you!!
Feels like my father tutoring me on music production😅. Best video on the topic. Thanks a thousand times! 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Thanks!! These kind of tutorials really help me to get by! Great!
Such a great and informative video! Geoff is an amazing teacher, a true master of delivering clear and concise information.
Thank you for quality content!
Appreciate it!
Yup, this is great. Great work.
Tonal Balance is amazing, i use it all the time
This is awesome. Thank you .
Thanks for this one! Lots of things that are really useful!
Good stuff man. Straightforward to the point and very comprehensive.
Best teacher ever !
Love it, helpful indeed!! 🙏🙏🙏
thx alot learnd alot
Amazing, thank you!
Luv ❤ your studio setup! 🫡
Great Video. Learnt a lot.
You are a blessing to the world, this is like university learning mixing so clear and understandable. wow applause
Good to know. Thank you.
Wow this is fantastically insightful! I only wish I had seen this video sooner.
Yes Was the Ultimate Guide! Congrats!
I make hard techno so low end is absolutely critical as there's a lot going on. Some elements need prominence while others need to sit back.
My tip is having a low pass filter on my master channel that I flip on and off when I need to isolate the low end with everything else still playing. It give me a clear picture of whether the kick still cuts through or if the mix is just mush. Reeeeeeally wish I'd learned it sooner!
And if you level match a reference to your track and low pass a/b between them even better, also a/b the LUFS of your low end against the reference.Your tracks are great btw.
Thanks man! Still tonnes to learn though!
thank you for this amazing content
Amazing work here thanks. Loving the unmask tool which I now have but haven’t had time to get into but will soon. Very excellent work thanks.
Such a great tutorial. Thank you!
Excellent!!!
This is ultimately low-end mixing guide thank you so much!