You’d think that metal bass mixing would be super straightforward.
Those of us who actually like hearing our bass guitar tracks within our metal mixes know the struggle all too well.
Getting bass guitar to cut through the wall of guitars, drums and vocals ain’t easy.
As a matter of fact, it can be a massive pain in the ass.
Bass tracks are often either too buried in the mix or just too overpowering. In other words, they’re either too quite or way too low-endy and loud.
Luckily, there are a few very useful tricks you can implement to help get your bass tracks to cut through your busy metal mixes.
Most of us know about the well-known techniques of blending in saturation and filtering out unnecessary frequencies. Those topics have been covered in great depth and there are a plethora of tutorials on the topic all over the internet.
In my latest tutorial, I reveal 3 sneaky tricks for metal bass mixing that I don’t see many people talking about online.
When it comes to the trickier aspects of music production (like bass tracks to sit right), you can never have enough tools in your mixing toolbox.
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