A Grammy Winner's #1 TIP for Balancing KICK and BASS

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A Grammy Winner's #1 TIP for Balancing KICK and BASS
Getting the relationship between the kick and the bass is the first step to tightening up your low-end sound and making your overall mix better.
But how do you keep instruments in similar frequency ranges from fighting each other?
In today’s video, I’ll share a tip I learned from multi-Grammy award-winning engineer Jacquire King.
Use this as a starting point, and your low-end will sound great every time!
Have you tried this?
Let me know what you think in the comments!
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Комментарии : 57

@DomSigalas 2 года назад

I have a feeling this is gonna be awesome ♥️

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

I hope so! LOL

@nithingeorge2836 2 года назад

Iam very much happy to see ,how you guys respect and compliment each other ❤️.. it's truly an inspiring stuff.☺️😊 For me when it comes to Cubase and Music production, you guys are my Teacher's. Thank you Chris and Dom ! ❤️

@freddy5203 2 года назад

❤❤

@ziebanez 2 года назад

@@nithingeorge2836 My teachers too 😊

@esonicsound 2 года назад

@@nithingeorge2836 The 2 Masters!

@jazzybass41 5 месяцев назад

Hi Chris. i have been mixing and producing my own music for just over 12 months and i have watched many tutorials on my journey. i must add that your tutorials are the best and most informative! keep up the good work! Cheers Simon

@willb1157 2 года назад

Ive been away. Nice to be back. You have been very helpful for me Chris, I just wanted to thank you for that. I went back to Cubase after years, and I relied on so many of your videos. You never "DAW Hated" either.

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

Welcome back, Will! Glad you can rely on my videos to get help :-)

@johncostigan6160 2 года назад

Simple and VERY cool. I'm going to try it right now. Thanks, Chris!

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

Enjoy!

@JeffreyYu 2 года назад

Great fast en quick tip. Thanks Chris!

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

You're welcome!

@kurtvereecke5090 2 года назад

Interesting. Will try it out for sure. Thanks !

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

Enjoy!

@bassbuzzmusic6681 2 года назад

Saved my life RESPECT+

@markleyland2661 2 года назад

Cool tip, thanks Chris!

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

Any time!

@peterranallo 2 года назад

Wow, thanks for this tip Chris ! :)

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

Happy to help!

@RahulKumar-jt5py 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing 👍

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

And thanks for watching :)

@jeffschwisow 2 года назад

Perfect timing, Chris...I'm adding the groove to a melody line that I've created as we speak. Well, technically we're not 'speaking' and it was the middle of my night when you premiered - but you know what I mean! 😂 So, I just downloaded Klanghelm VUMT and had a play with my kick and bass levels...Voila! It really tightens up the low end and helps it sit nicely in the mix. Simple and effective - exactly what I need. 🤜💥🤛

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

Rock on! Thanks for sharing!

@jeffschwisow 2 года назад

@@mixdownonline 😎

@VasilisKoskinas 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for reminding this method, I've seen somewhere but with the calibration on VU plugin at -10 for some reason.Does this matter?

@PatrickObiang 2 года назад

Bravo!

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

Thanks

@ziebanez 2 года назад

How do you get those cool colors in your meters ?

@joseesparza8503 2 года назад

Verry good my men, god bess u from zac.mexico ✋🏽

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

Thank you 🙌

@jabulanimahlangu6863 2 года назад

Hi Chris I hope you know your are the best even Dom knows that. We love you guys

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

Thank you very much, Jabulani!

@tomassandkvist722 2 года назад

While this was no news to me, I always appreciate your way of teaching us lesser knowledgable this neat tricks. I have however a kind of related issue, I seem always to start of with way too low midrange and highs after doing this low end balancing. And its's often not until I do the car stereo check I realize my low end is way too overpowering. Any ideas on why and what to do not to fall into that trap?

@ampstudios 2 года назад

are you mixing on monitors, headphones, room treated, are the monitors floating? a lot of factors can be involved

@Schodemeiss 2 года назад

#SpoilerWarning. This is the old 'fade the kick so it's kissing -3db on a VU metre. Then push up the bass until both combined are kissing 0db on the VU metre', right? Works a charm!

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

You got me! LOL!

@Schodemeiss 2 года назад

@@mixdownonline Sorry pal! Amazing trick though, really does work. One question though... are there any decent VU meters built into Cubase? Does the new metering plugin in 11 have a VU metre?

@newheightsfitness1461 2 года назад

Interesting... I struggle with this, but mine is more to do with quick double kicks and blast beats and frequency build up in the low end.

@JullarMusic 2 года назад

I would suggest looking into some multi-band compressor plug ins. Slap a multi band compressor mainly focusing on the low end (maybe 120hz and below) and have it activate just enough to tame the frequencies building up. You could also automate the volume of the kick to lower by 1-2db when the fast double kicks come about

@mindus5760 2 года назад

Does cubase have a Stock vu-metre? Or can i use the regular mixer-metres for this purpose aswell?

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

Cubase doesn't have a VU Meter and the use of a Meter Peak Level meter will not work as well as a Vu Meter since VU Meters are average level meters. Check this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1bnuiCiS3FA.html I share a bunch of FREE Plugins and there's a VU Meter on the list

@DjNello 2 года назад

when you have the bass in "shuffle notes" it practically does not overlap the "kick" how do you proceed with the measurement of the Vu meter? Thanks

@madmuso5 2 года назад

Duplicate your bass gtr track and nudge it so the bass gtr and kick drum play at the same time. Musically it will obviously sound like crap but the objective is to have the bass gtr and kick combining together. Once you balance the duplicate bass gtr track as shown in the video. Set your original bass gtr track fader to the same level.

@SuperMax_____0.0_____ 2 года назад

Heres my like sir 😘

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

Thanks

@lukim_2498 2 года назад

Hey Chris. And how to balance kick and base with the rest of the mix. How can you be sure that the kick volume is at the right level ..?

@lazarushatchette3978 2 года назад

Mix till it sounds good with the rest of the mix. Simply gain staging

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

This is where you need to use your ears and balance that out to your taste according to what you're going for!

@dbtube 2 года назад

Why adding a ST OUT track in your mixer when the Stereo Out track can do the same job?

@sakoviec 2 года назад

Simple Anwser! Mixing with references. You don't want them to be affected by your master chain. Bypassing all plugins everytime you want to listen to your reference would unnecessarily take too much time. Hope that clears it for you:)

@Noone-of-your-Business 2 года назад

In other words, you make sure that they both have exactly the same amplitude in the mix? No, really - this is not a rhetorical question.

@mixdownonline 2 года назад

Not necessary, but close enough, yes, if you measure this with a VU Meter. In some cases, they will have the same amplitude and in other cases you might find 1 or 2 dbVU difference. Don't forget that with VU meters, we're talking about average levels and not peak level measurements.