Mixing Bass & Synth Bass with Drums - Tony Maserati’s SSL Tip #4 

This guy hosts some of the best tutorials I've seen. He does not speak a single word of bullshit, everything makes total sense, and he knows exactly what you want to hear in terms of A/B'ing throughout the progress of the sound. It's always great to watch a pro tweak a sound out of the rough into perfection - even better when they're so good at communicating their every move

This dude is the real deal. There are so many mixing engineers on RU-vid, who have no idea what they're doing. But this guy is experienced, you can tell by his workflow. I would recommend anyone rewatch this video and take notes.

Love watching how he tweaks the plugins and seeks for the EQ spot by boosting and then adjusting once he finds the spot. So easy to understand his thinking. Agree. No BS. Just Tony being Tony and adding small layers of goodness like a good audio artisan!

The snare and claps sound fantastic

That threshold trick to make it sound like some sort of sidechaining was cool!

Thank you again I've watched a lot of your teachings on here and find them very helpful.. Thank you again

BRUCE BANNER ON THE MIX

damn sounds good, them drums snappy punchy, everything sounds great, we need moar masterati videos!

What I find interesting here is what separates the amateurs from the pros. This guy does a superb job fine tuning the sound. If you listen to the samples with and without the filters, to a layman both would sound virtually the same. But it takes a musician like me (and people w/ good ears) and a super pro like him to hear the difference. He doesn't really do much to the sound. Just tweaks it ever so slightly to remove the bass's tendency to cover up everything else. He also fines tunes it so that it sounds clear and sharp rather than muddied in the background. By making it clearer, the voice (at the end) punches through. This guy is a genius.

Those awesome drums remind me of Been Caught Stealing by Jane's Addiction. Same kind of snap and clarity, same goes for the bass. Love that sound!

Yep! It makes all the difference in the mix

The subtle moves add up to such a difference.

Nothing like watching another pro twirl the knobs. I'm glad I'm not the only guy that uses that many inserts! 😂

U r one of the best...Tnx 4 tips

Watched this because I'm interested in the SSL 4000 collection. I'm sold.

Wonderfully high quality sound and great demonstration of how each element affects things. Also sad to hear that excellent bass line gradually cut down and buried under a lot of less musically interesting distractions.

Thanks for the great vid! I definitely got something out of it!

Damn Tony, you are the best! I just wish I could afford you.

La tiene atada tony. El secreto está en q él ya se imagina el sonido que quiere antes de poner el primer plugin. Pocas personas tienen ese don.

That bass line makes me dance

You are amazing

good stuff but why is he using a mouse to edit plugins when he has a d command?

"Lets throw a bunch of stuff on the bass and then try to sort it out and make sense at the end with some "sonic additions" on our "sonic pallet" like maybe some "airy fur". That'll certainly bring more energy to the track. (removes glasses and stares into camera) (Puts glasses back on) now let's mess with the "dramatic quality" shall we"

This guy reminds me about Cary Grand mixed with George Clooney! Why none has done a 60th movie with him.. Hes a real actor!! Watch 5:26

Nice and useful. However there's a short and annoyingly sharp mid range percussive sound in the second mix, which makes it hard to focus on the bass sound.

Nice

you saved me again

Snare’s interesting...sounds like a small diameter deep wooden drum. Almost a popcorn?

nice

Amazing, he could be an Apple engineer for Logic Pro

To Tony Maserati, Big question, who is the smartest singer you ever worked with sonically, who knew thier instrument the best(?voice, what it needed) asking all the engineers

Hmmm... Cool!

I love how he refers to plug-ins as people

How much RAM is this computer? Wtf.. All those plugins on one session... I wish i had 1 like that.. I always have to be carefull in my sessions lol

snare very loud?

Did any one notice the room has no acoustics ?

1.5k 🤤

There's a really annoying reverb muddying up the drums in part of the loop. I'd dump that. The claps are also annoyingly harsh.

The drums sound like old school red hot chili peppers drums, californication era

saludo mucho gusto, solo tengo esta sugerencia. podrían traducirlo al español sus vídeos, ya que todas las personas hablan ese idioma. solo es una idea

what song is that ?

awesome video but that big room fx is just annoying...

You're not using your Signature Series. Something ain't right! Don't you have Maserati B72 for bass and Maserati DRM for drums? Snake oil?

Too many plugins for the bass to cut through! Hey, to each his own. Sounds good though!

as a true bass player for one thing its all ready a distorted sound.so any more of that wont sound right..i would have just told them to play the bass over again...so in other words that bass track is no good to began with...remember you cant fix that sound with plugins...rerecord it start with a clean sound.this only applies too the first bass sound

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The bass tone stunk from the get go and the plugins only made it worse.