In this week’s Audio Premium content, Björgvin Benediktsson teaches you how to give life to a DIed bass track. While the screenshots for this tutorial are taken in Logic Pro, the content is not Logic-centric and is equally useful and valuable in any software that deals with sequenced music.
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“Dealing with low end can be tricky sometimes. Especially if you’ve recorded it in a way that might limit your options. Many famous producers opt to only record their bass direct, skipping the whole miking-the-cabinet step altogether. However, sometimes that DI sound isn’t the best you might have hoped for. It might have sounded pretty good during recording but when it comes time to mix it’s kind of lacking compared to the other instruments.
But don’t worry, there are certainly a few ways you can mix your bass in order to salvage a sub-par bass sound. We’ll be looking at ways to fake that amplifier sound using plug-ins, using multi-band compression to target specific bass heavy areas, as well as giving it some subtle space.”
The tutorial will teach you how to take a bass track from this:
Download audio file (examplebefore.mp3)
To this:
Download audio file (exampleafter.mp3)
Table of Contents
- Making the Most of a Recording
- Getting Rid of that DI sound
- Compression for a Steady Sound
- Making the Bass Bassy but not Boomy
- Adding Space
- Conclusion
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