Dave Pensado shows you how to get the most of your Bass tracks by using Hi and Low-pass filters while mixing. Subscribe to our channel: www.youtube.com... Please 'Like' and 'Follow'! / pensadosplace / pensadosplace
Every time I watch an ITL/Pensado's Place it solves stuff that I've been knocking my head about for months.With all respect to The walking dead and Breaking Bad , This is the coolest , most exciting series I have ever seen :D Thanks a whole lot man , you make my day !
Just whipped out my FabFilter Simplon and did what you did on a breakbeat I needed to tuck behind a more formidable drum machine. This was fun. I usually dread high pass, and never have used a low pass here (gave some sheen to the cymbals, and cut out some gritty noise there!). Thanks!
Tired of using presets and hoping for the best I decided a few weeks ago to really learn the craft of recording and have been amazed by the knowledge and access to information on RU-vid. I’ve spent the last three weeks submerged in videos like this and really appreciate them. Honestly three weeks ago I didn’t know what a high pass filter was let alone how to use them. This is probably the tenth video I’ve watched on filters and I learn something new every time, Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge so little guys like me can learn how to sound big.
My clarity, width, etc. improved a hundred fold once I really started to understand the use of filters. No one ever told me that filtering all the unnecessary low end out of a panned track REALLY pegs it to the side. It makes sense since low end doesn’t image that well but it’s one of those things that I never understood the true importance of. The same kind of concept is obviously happening here since all the unnecessary low end flub and high end scrape is being hacked off in favor of the stuff that actually works.
I have taken on board some of the tips on bass and kick drums and my latest recording is so much better sounding, even I cannot believe my ears! Thanks Dave.
Ever since I watched this I've been using Cytomic's The Drop for my high and low pass filtering, because it made me realize how important it is to use a great quality filter and plus The Drop has a peak resonance control too (as well as offering many different filter simulations). Really helps things sit in the mix.
The slight raise is what makes this even more valuable. It's a good feeling when something you do feels off and overall extraterrestrial but turns out to be genius!
Thank so much Dave for all your great tip we all can learn if we listen . to people who know what they talking about I’am 64 and love making my music from Tassie end of the world fresh air
I knew about the bump trick on the low bass frequencies, but for some reason never thought to do the same on the higher bass frequencies. I will try this. Thanks.
haha don't even say that, theres no such thing, even Pensado says you never really figure it all out, only keep tackling one song after another and keep learning new things.
***** Hahah, beautifully said. It's a great feeling to keep learning new basic ideas in the mixing world. But it's a wonderful yet at times very frustrating journey. :) Meaning there is no point of arrival, just an endless exploration of refinement.
Kima Moore Thats right, the only difference between a pro and non-pro is the ideas they can come up with to solve a weird and new problem, which really comes from experience and good judgement.
I find myself immediately going to keepvid after watching one of your videos.. I hope that is an extreme compliment, and I hope others follow in my footsteps. Regardless, your videos amaze me! 🧙♂️ 🖤❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜
Thank you Dave ! I needed to see this today................. been having problems with a bass track in one song ................... hopefully this will do the trick. :)
Just one correction on the maths: The cut-off frequency is the corner frequency, and as such it it already 3 db down (under most filter types) at this frequency. So if you use an 18 db/octave low cut at 100 Hz, then at 50 Hz you will be down 18 + 3 = 21 dB. OK, so I'm not totally sure about this, and you should just use your ears anyway, but I think this is correct. So I just googled it, and wikipedia says: "In electronics, cutoff frequency or corner frequency is the frequency either above or below which the power output of a circuit, such as a line, amplifier, or electronic filter has fallen to a given proportion of the power in the passband. Most frequently this proportion is one half the passband power, also referred to as the 3 dB point since a fall of 3 dB corresponds approximately to half power. "
I'm trying to do this LIVE on my pedalboard with parallel signals I have it all worked out but I am missing two parts I cant seem to locate a high pass or low pass pedals anyone?????? I feel like I cant use EQ pedals for this am I wrong?
Cycles per second = Hz If you take a note ( a440hz, for instance ) And double the Hz ( 440x2=880 ) You get an octave higher If you divide it in half (440/2=220hz) You get an octave down- and so on-- that is how octaves are determined, get a chart for each note/ frequency, and practice the math-- Then practice in real time honing in on frequencies ( measured in Hz or cycles per second ) On any old eq with your gear
You are very welcome!! If you really want to get into the math of frequencies, look into the works of Pythagoras, who's research into frequencies, and the resultant terms and tuning systems are the foundation of the math we use today in regards to the frequency spectrum- in the long run, with or without math, your ears will tell you what you are looking for- the numbers just help you to remember all that stuff.
This used to do my head in, I kind of worked out there might be a Rez boost at the cut off, but when I have asked ppl they have basically bs me and said just attenuate. People don't seem to ask why? They just do, which is lazy in my book.
Do you know in what way lazy people are better? I'll tell you: because they are lazy, they find the easiest and effective ways to do things that more laboriuous people spend way too much time and effort doing. Also: dem drugs
It does my head in sometimes too - often I will low pass a signal quite heavily and all of a sudden I'm seeing clip lights come on...and you think huh, didn't I just REMOVE energy here? But yeah, it's that resonant peak throwing more gain into the mix...
Nope, it's still there. It's called FilterBank. They just redesigned/updated it since 2014. It's $200. But you absolutely don't need it to use this technique. There's many other, less expensive EQs with this feature. You're DAW probably has one.
He looks to be boosting around 5 db or so (I think? I'm not sure about the scale on the McDSP stuff...) but as little or as much as it needs to sound better. Every instrument and application is different, so as always the golden answer is to trust your ears and not your eyes.
