Bass EQ tips: how to tighten up your low end

Without proper EQ moves, low end instruments can muddy up your sound. Follow along as engineer Sam Loose shares top EQ tips for mixing bass to sit well in the mix, including how to clean up your low end as well as different EQ techniques to better fit your bass in the frequency spectrum. By the end of this video, you will be able to give your bass clarity and create depth and dimension in your mix.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:36 The role of bass in the mix
01:42 How to prep your low end
02:30 1. Clean lows with high-pass filters
05:05 2. Apply EQ boosts
08:01 3. Pocket mixing
10:32 4. Sidechain with dynamic EQ
12:57 5. Low end harmonics
15:29 Upward dynamic EQ
16:35 Outro

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[BeeSquared]

THE INVERSE LINK FEATURE IS NUTS!!!
I bought a bundle a long time ago that came bundled with Neutron 3 and I had no idea this existed. Thank you for showing this feature off! It's amazing!!

[shawnburge]

Mr. Loose talking about tightening up the low end. Haha love it

[mttlsa]

If I have to boost something, most of the times I just cut the very unwanted frequencies first and then I simply turn up the fader to make the freq I want to stand out to the correct level. if it's not enough I just gently cut the adjacent frequencies around the one I want to boost and I just do the pocket thing + side chain. I think that cutting preserves the sound more compared to boosting but after watching this video I've noticed that boosting 2 different frequencies on kick and bass it's what gives that thick "pro" low end separation feeling I've always missed, totally different from simply making the 2 elements fit together using only the "pocket method" after equalizing them in solo. Today is a good day for me thanks to this video.

[matthiasnoll]

One of the best videos I have seen here.

[usedusermoser]

Thanks for the tuts Mr Loose on how to tighten my low end! It’s hard to know without any external reference specially using headphones. The visuals are quite handy in neutron I never used them before.

[shomm_music]

Wow, i am often using the unmasking feature but i didnt know about the inverse link function and how it works. Great tutorial!

[euong]

Multiband feature on trash2 with the high end being active is a great way to get your 808 to cut through in a mix.

[hardzero]

Accurate work as always. Thanks Izotope 🥂

[ObXession]

Nice and easy Clean, boost and pocket ! Thanks izotope 💎

[lance]

That's really easy to follow. Thanks.

[usung]

thanks, Sam as always this is the best explanation

[LBJedi]

Something I like to do:
Put Ozone Imager on the bass after saturating the miss/highs. Then give everything over 160-ish just a kiss of width.

[thomairkevinryan]

Does cutting like 3:30 won't engage in phase issues ?

[ErixSamson]

I understand the logic here, but I think this kind of mix driven by kick tends to make all songs sounding pretty much the same (boom - boom - boom - boom). Might be OK for EDM, not so sure for other styles where bass is not just an "impact", but also brings groove and different notes.

[slimproge]

finally, something faster and synthetic was used as an example song here :) I would love to see you mix a fullOn / psytrance style song somewhere like 145 bpm with a galloping melodic bass line and a fast clicking kick. and the question immediately arises to me: what about the phase and exclusions in the kick bass relationship? Maybe in a technical song or in minimal or general EDM it doesn't play such a big role as during the first bass hit on the oscilloscope it overlaps when the tail of the kick sine is still sounding and the sidechain doesn't help much hehe😀 and it would also be worth mentioning that it's sharp and light lo cut on the sub bass or kick shifts the phase, which results in mutual cancellation in the graph. (yes, I know about the existence of nonlinear eqs 😜) anyway, cool tips. we want more of them

[dspoet]

Please make RX Connect compatible within Studio One. Yall have the technology to do it. 😊

[DEL_PL]

8:00 just turn volume up on the sub rather than messing with Eq and phase :D.

[jonaspaulsson]

Hi! I would love to see a tutorial how you use Neutron in a Reggae mix Especially Bass and kick

[Millerboy]

Why would you measure the loudness difference in LUFS when mixing the low end? You can have true peaks that are higher and use more headroom but have a lower LUFS reading, right?

[HOLLASOUNDS]

Export your track and put the your in a app like audacity with a reference track, how does it look, are there any visible peaks? Does your track look like a cactus, vs the smooth rounded reference track, because if so You need compression. Ones your track and the reference track look very similar then play them side by side back on as many different speaker and headphonesas possible. Do both your track and the reference track sit well together side by side at the same volume? If its Yes then your done.