Low End Therapy – Kick & Bass Mixing Tricks & Tips – UA Office Hours #115

Join the UA Office Hours Crew as they show you a variety of tried and true tricks to get your kick and bass living together in harmony.

Timestamps:
0:00 Countdown
8:09 Intro
11:08 Top comments from last week
17:15 The importance of using reference tracks
19:01 How monitoring level affects frequency perception
26:14 Don’t overuse solo when mixing
29:26 Enhancing low frequencies with saturation & distortion
30:55 Using EQ to give kick & bass their own space
40:05 Sidechaining bass to make room for the kick
46:00 Chat Question: Is sidechaining just for EDM?
48:15 Mixing multiple bass layers
50:40 Widening mid bass with chorus
54:32 Filtering to clean up low end
58:16 Chat Question: What cutoff frequency should I use?
1:00:52 Carving out space for bass & guitars with EQ
1:06:20 Gain staging & the magic of VU meters
1:13:35 Making bass frequencies mono using bx_digital V3
1:20:28 Phase coherency & low frequencies
1:21:44 Using Little Labs IBP to phase align multi-mic’d bass guitar
1:28:15 Using Little Labs IBP to phase align sampled kick drums
1:33:20 Save $ on UAD plug-ins with Custom Bundles
1:35:30 Studio Showdown
1:46:30 Outro