Kick and Bass Low End Mixing Tricks w Ulrich Wild, Cameron Webb & Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro

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[Jacob-ivqg]

we are blessed that such a great mixer decided to open a YouTube channel and share his amazing knowledge.

[darlenesheffield]

Wonderful clear, concise, original, not rehashed information from someone who does this for a living!!

[narcnad]

Super super helpful! I love getting 3 different yet very complimentary views. I like how they we’re sequenced to build on each other conceptually. Thanks you!

[mattystrings]

Perfectly timed video for Me, Warren. I'll be tracking live drums and bass today, Wednesday and Friday! THANK YOU!

[manulovesyoumadly]

1st Song

***KICK***

3:45 EQ

cut 350Hz (mud)
boost 60Hz (weight)
cut 110Hz (build up)
boost 7k (click)

5:20 Transient Designer


***BASS***

6:30 duplicate track, add saturation

7:00 EQ

duplicate: HP 200Hz
original track: LP 200Hz

9:30 sum
EQ HP 60Hz

10:06 Multiband Compressor
crossover 250Hz
heavy compression underneath



11:22 2nd Song

16:50 3rd Song

[harmonystudios]

Best information out there on this by someone who does this for a living!

[josephvalo]

Awesome tips for the kick and bass guitar. They are a great refresher for me. Thanks Warren! I hope you have a wonderful day too!

[Ahazzard]

Great video as always. Being a drummer myself, I love the relationship between the bass drum, snare drum and bass guitar. I think these three elements are the most important part of a good rock song! I like to get these right in the mix first and having the bottom end worked out too helps me with mixing the rest of the song. Thanks for the tips, I'll be putting some, if not all of these ideas into my next mix. You guys all rock!

[chrisdigital]

The spl attacker is one of my favs for my drums

[MarcBecker_Music]

Great video. I am really glad that I found your channel. My approach to work on the low end is a bit different than the one shown in your post. My "secret weapon" is the dynamic EQ from Brainworks, the bx_dynEQ V2. I use the boom function of the EQ to emphasize the low frequencies around 60 Hz of the kick drum with a narrow Q factor. At the same time, I lower the octave band at arround 120 Hz with narrow factor to the same extent. On the bass track, I often set a low cut between 32 and 48 Hz with a 6db transition steepness. Then I use the DynEQ on this channel with a side-chain trigger from the bass drum channel and set the frequencies in reverse to the settings on the DynEQ of the kick. I'll tweak the 60 Hz and 120 Hz settings on both channels until I get the sound I want. I also often use a transient designer on the bass drum to sculpt the attack and the sustain. Works pretty well for me. That's my humble approach to getting the low end of a mix under control. I found out that the hardest thing in the world could be finding the right measure, not to be too be to boomy but still being fat enough at the bottom end. It's pretty hard for me to cut back the low frequencies once I've gone overboard a bit. It sounds pretty deep and fat if there's too much energy in the low end and it sounds easely to thin when you roll it back, even if it's the more reasonable setting. Every time I think I'm too loud at the bottom, I press the stop button, reduce the low frequencies to my personal best guess, and pause for 5-10 minutes before returning and pressing the play button again.

[davidallenhammond]

Thank you Warren, and Cameron and Ulrich, great useful info.  I really appreciate the opportunity to learn how you all work.

[Charlyfromthenuclearcity]

I didn't know Cameron Webb before knowing your channel, and I've got to say I really enjoy it when he shows up in your videos. He has a great sound and he's a great teacher too !

[riktascale]

Thanks much Warren. Any lesson on low end is most welcome!

[redmonkeeproductions]

Fantastic bite sized info infused session detailing kick and bass mixes from a variety of sources, thank you ever so much Warren.

[unosturgis]

I am so glad I found your channel! Probably the best mixing info on youtube!!

[iwantappledumplings]

The cheatsheets are very useful I find myself looking at them all the time when I mix !! Thanks Warren !!

[EricGPLAP]

Such good info here! Low end is so important and so hard to get right! Love these excerpts!

[ramseysounds]

Nice one. Bottom end mixing is always the tricky bit! Right, off to practice...

[vewilli]

This is the mixing topic I‘m dealing with a little bit more at the moment than anything else. I‘m trying to find a good solution for me … thanx for your video!

[iwantappledumplings]

Amazing information! The cheat sheet rules!! Reading it now!!