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Tales from the mix lab: let's CLIP this low D&B bass 🔊 [video]
Added 2025-01-17 14:08:45 +0000 UTCI’m doing this DNB mix+master and its really low bass needs some special attention…let’s use clipping to help it.
USE HEADPHONES OR GOOD MONITORS or you won't hear a single change…this is not for phones that much 🎧🔊😋
Not every song and its element is 100% ideal, and the bass department in this song isn't the easiest, so I'm trying to help it a little bit.
I'll do a bit of on/off, and also at the very end, blow up the bass completely so you can hear what clipping can offer to your bass, so that's the tip.
Let me know what you think!
Haven't sent this to the label/client yet, so I'll have to see what they have to say 🤞🏻😋
Comments
Devious Machines Bass Focus has a harmonic generator that works really well for this too.
John Denheen
2025-01-24 21:34:04 +0000 UTCnice stuff bro!
CARTER
2025-01-20 08:58:57 +0000 UTCHow would you deal with the tail or artefacts of the distorted copy though? Sometimes when I destroy the signal and just keep the top information. My original signal will fade out like as I have it maybe short and snappy, but the distorted signal feels like it becomes longer (cause I guess you are bring the quiet information up). Do you sidechain gate it to the original sub? Do you add a Transient Designer and drag the sustain knob down, do you compress it? Or even do you manually fade out the audio on each note?
Erald
2025-01-18 10:47:18 +0000 UTCYessir, that’s what I’ve done quite often when I want an aggressive bass, because roasting it often hurts the sub!
Janne Hatula
2025-01-18 05:51:40 +0000 UTCGreat tip Fanu. In the end when you pushed the sub even more to the limiter. What if you copied that signal, then rolled off the super lows and kept only that extra growl / dirt from the harmonics and blended it with the sub that was limiting 2db only? In order to get that extra information on the top?
Erald
2025-01-18 01:45:41 +0000 UTC
