This Will Change How You Mix Kick And Bass FOREVER 

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These tutorials work way better for me than any others. Very well structured and explained, deep enough to teach me things I didn’t know and something that’s very rare these days: a modest attitude paired with a high level of professionalism. Keep up the great work!

I've just discovered your channel and I'm so glad I did! This is top notch, no-nonsense mxing advice here. Looking forward to binge-watching your back-catalogue!

this really was a mind blowing tutorial, ive been mixing for a while now (amateur) and have always had chains of processing that i was never satisfied with. Watching your logic and preservation of the sound you chose originally was what i needed to witness, thanks Phillip!! instant sub!

Great video Philip. I'm just getting into production, and I will be following you a lot. Really well-explained techniques. Can't wait to see your other videos. Keep up the good work!!

one of the most analytical course on mixing techniques, thanks so much

Thanks so much for this video. I love how simple you make everything, with no gatekeeping. I'm so happy to have found you!

Great job Phillip. Your videos really show the nuances of mixing without using hyped up tricks. You really illustrate how subtle, deliberate techniques make for the best sounding mixes. I'm learning a lot from you

Thanks for taking the time for this video. Very valuable info.

I've really been trying to focus on finishing the ideas that I have and allowing my creations to be 'done' - this is exactly the kind of video/advice I was looking for! Too many tutorials are these 'gotcha' techniques or rough generalizations, you present definite information with logical and empirical reasoning. Awesome video and I'm looking forward to watching more of your channel! The point that you make at 13:19 - Think in terms of solutions rather than in errors. Just great! 🎼

When you mentioned that it's okay to mix in solo, I'm very glad you made sure to remind people to double check if it works in context. It's a topic I've had many a discussion about and I was very happy to hear a supporting voice on the topic. Very good video with a LOT of valuable information!

Great tutorial, great and clear explanation again. It is really helpful to see your techniques. Thanks for your effort and sharing. At the end it’s the artist’s creative process to shape the sound. With this kind of tutorials we get a great starting point. 🙏🏼 see you on your next video take care

incredible top quality video and tutorial , definitely subscribed and gonna devour any other tutorials you got, some of the cleanest and best explained tutorials I've ever encountered huge job

Excellent results, good advice!

Keep it up g, You're doing a great job! Amazing and informative video

Great Tutorials mate thanks for making them

Great video, I have been struggling with this. So this is very welcome and well explained. Thanks!

this was a really informative video, you're incredibly concise and clear with how you word things and you answer questions before I have even thought them :) subscribed mate thank you so much!

love the way you explain bro, keep up the great work

This is good stuff and perfectly within my skill level. Glad to have discovered your channel. Well done man! 🤜🤛

Great work. All of your EQ moves make sense. I'm going to start following you ASAP!

I really appreciate how you break down this topic. Why this needs to be that and such. I’m new to music and I tend to learn things better when thoroughly explained to. Will definitely go back to some of my older songs and fix them up with your tips!

This is such great information, No BS just good honest tutorial, you have a new subscriber 👍 keep the content coming

Greetings Phillip, Your teaching skills are 100% amazing! Its a fantastic huge welcome that you walk through everything with such precision and then demonstrating the results. So many others fail here. Please keep up the great enthusiasm and thank you for sharing your wisdom. Sincerely, Vince Tari

I liked this, you've touched upon some relevant and sometimes overlooked smaller things and concepts. Ty

This is the no bs video I needed, thank you

some of the best mixing advice I've seen and heard. don't overthink it sums it up well. thanks dude. most helpful thing was the chain and how to think about using each tool the right way. that has always been such a mystifying area to me once I learned that the order of plugins matters, then I immediately wanted to know what should go first in a chain? this video helped clear it up a lot and now I can focus on making good music instead of how to make good music sound good.

Amazing tutorial 🔊🔊🔥🔥

This was really helpful! Thank you so much

Indeed. Very helpful, clear demonstration. Thanks a lot.

Very clear and good presentation. Great Work - thank you!

Philip I am so thankful for your channel, your wisdom is blowing my mind at how much there is to learn in my passion. RU-vid university is tough to learn, so thank you for delivering this rich knowledge for free, you truly are the man!

I also mix in solo in the early stages and get great results. Glad to have finally found someone who agrees. Will definitely be checking out more of your stuff 🙏🏼

Incredibly explained. Well done. Got learn more. THanks for this

really helpful across the board thanks. and nice delivery. great to aim to use stock tools too and still highlighting where alternatives are warranted. thanks

THANKS A LOT. Been watching YT tutorials for 3 years and it´s interesting to watch someone who not only brings forward different approaches but also prooves them using actual data like SPAN... it was realy suprissing to me to see how little of a difference that low cut actualy makes to the lower frequencies in the kick, when visualized in SPAN. Same with percussions and rolling bass, i developed as a rule of thumb to just harshly cut anything below 80hz or so, resulting in thin mixes which has been a struggle for me since day 1. Cant wait to get back to work. Really exposes how all of this videos have been using this as the easy way to kind of teach and gain views but it has to be approached in a very broad way, just as you did. LIKED AND SUBBED. 🙌🙏

Really great vid - thank you. I like your philosophy.

keep going you are great!

Im a beginner on fl studio and i found this helpful thankyou.. will help me make my kick and bass poke out better hopefully and help me understand abit more of what the pluggins do .

one of the best videos I've seen in the last few days. you can tell that you understand what you're doing. you have good arguments. THX 4 help. #MuchLove

Finally, a great tutorial without all the stereotypical operations. I really liked you using kick & bassline but at the same time SUB! Please make more video about those triple combinations like how to achieve groove by using both bassline and sub like PROs! Thank you.

man , you are just amazing ! love this video !

Your explanations are on point 💯😇

Great tutorial thank you

well done mate, thank you =)

great and very well structured overview.

Cool .. this will be useful to many people. Thank you 🖤

Very good and sound advice. Thx!

Thanks for sharing your skills with us :)

Amazing video - great style, opinionated with great opinions!

sehr interessant. vieles war mir schon bekannt, aber das eine oder andere wurde noch einmal aufgefrischt. tolles video. thx :)

Very good information thanks. hard to find tutorials of this quality

I wish you posted this when I was trying to figure this out. I debunked a lot of the kick and base tutorials by trying and failing. I ended up doing a lot of the things you do here to make my kick punch, still learned a lot, great vid :)

Well explained video, cheers from Germany

You should adjust the speed (the average time and the block size) of SPAN to see the low end accurately. Without a faster response, you cannot see what's actually happening below, say, 100Hz. You should notice the difference between the display on the Live EQ8 and the SPAN instance. Otherwise, this is a good video. Thanks. Also, the airwindows totape6 is an excellent low-end saturator and it's free. ☺️

Great Video!

this video is incredible

Yes got massive value 😊 1st time watching one of your vids after 2+ year's on YT for music production stuff (mostly psytrance 🤷‍♂️) Colour me impressed. Off to check you're older vids!

Perfect!🎶👀🥁💯👍🏾

best tutorials iv ever seen a proper learning session

This video is gold!

I love it! Try using a multi band compressor on your bass and side chain your kick to the lowest band. Around 40hz (depending on the sounds of kick and bass of course) should do it. In that way you can leave the kick and bass as loud as you want them to be cause everytime they are played together one will make room for the other in the clashing frequency area. Another thing I would recoomend is making sure the transients in the drums stay in tact. Especially for kicks in that type of music. If you route your kicks to a kick buss and do the processing there, you could send your raw kick(from the track before it hits the kick buss) to an aux that feeds back into an overall drum buss after the kick buss but before the mix buss. Now you got tons of great oportunites. On the kick buss you process the kicks however you like and actually clip them at the end of the chain, so you get a great sound without a lot of the transients left. NOW on the Aux (that you're sending the raw kick to) low cut all the lows and most of the mids and just keep the highs OR the frequencies around the transient, emphasize the transients with a transient designer if needed and use a bit of saturation to make it less pokey and then add it back to the kick sound AFTER the clipper(in a later buss like described before). You can add it back in just a tiny bit above the clipped kick, now you have a kick that apears to be loud as hell but hasnt lost the original transients at all plus you probably wont clip your master buss compressor. This way of mixing with transients in mind is kinda hard to understand at first but will really take your mixes to a completely different level. Combine it with the sidechain thing I mentioned before and theres the best kick/bass balance possible right now.

Nice video, I work slightly different given I make D&B by grouping drums/bass/synths etc. and then also using parallel processing can really bring tracks to life.

excellent video

Great tutorial! I use the Ableton Shaper and map it to the gain on a Utility to mimic the LFOTool.

Interesting approach....

Hi man, great information. What DAW you prefer to use? The console you using looks super clean!

Great video! I am not a fan of electronic music, but I thought there would be something useful for me here as I produce music with an electric bass, and drums, and there are many fundamentals I can apply indeed. I'd love to see someone making an awesome video like this one but with electric bass. It still looks tricky to me, and most videos don't quite cut it, or use commercial plugins I wouldn't commit to purchase without justification. Keep doing the good work.

You are my Sensei! *bow* thank you 🙏

Low shelf instead of a high pass is such a good move here. Way less destructive.

awesome vid

Subbass overwhelms everything. Curious hollowed feeling from this track

A lot of thanks to you my friend, my sound it`s really punch rightnow!!!

Don't like this music, but if I did - this channel is all I would need. You earned my subscription today. Great general advices, keep em comming. Peace from Northern Norway..

Thank you sir ❤

@pickyourself New subscriber here. Great video with some very helpful tips. Thank you for sharing your knowledge ✌️

My first reaction when hearing "this is all you will have to learn... no more issues, ever again" was something like: "yeah, I've heard that a couple of times already, even (or especially) the bad tutorials tend to promise that, too". But dang, that's really good. So far, this looks like a really good execution of the "more is less" idea. Intuitively, I was never a fan of taking away more and more by eqing like there is no tomorrow. It always felt wrong to blindly chop away the low frequencies because "you don't hear them, anyway", and still, it reduced the quality of the result. Especially when working dawless, I think it's a good idea to learn to work with what you have and better try to get the source material right.

Hi! Thx for the tutorial! Did you use all the basses in Mono or Stereo or both?

This was super helpful - love your approach on principles and concepts compared to many other teachings. Working thru the rest of your lessons now

Love when someone has that older brother knowledge

Super helpfull tips

finally someone shows that mixing is not going crazy with stuff, instead of massage the sounds to their right place ;).... well done

To be honest it sounded better before the processing. Here’s why. Your using samples that most likely already have some form of processing by someone else. Usually the processing is done poorly. Once in a while you get lucky with a sample.. that is actually ok. Second all the mixing tips you gave are not actually mixing tips… they are mending tips. Tips to correct the problems with the sounds you have. The result is more distortion, less clean sound, and everything you are doing is to compensate for the last thing you did. So you compensate again by adding more. Hope that helps. Good luck on your journey!

Hi Phillip. Great video! Very helpful and informative. I have a question though... Can you apply these techniques in synthwave production as well? I feel that the kick/bass relation there is a bit different compared to EDM or Techno. Especially the kick in sythwave is a lot less punchy and a bit more soft/sluggish I guess. Any tips for synthwave genre, or are your videos oriented solely on Techno and EDM?

Absorption is my technique. Like, soaking in the nuances of not over thinking.

Great tutorial! I definitely agree with the less is more approach. One idea, adding an expander before the compressor should help to get rid of the tail of the kick. I think that’s potentially adding problems in the mid-low you had to cut afterwards. Feels like it bounces. It might also mean you don’t need the compressor. What do you think?

excellent vid! You touched on head room for a moment. I'm embarrassed to say, that's something I haven't fully wrapped my head around yet. It would be interesting to hear your opinions on what's important to know about head room, what kind of mistakes you see people make, maybe what your methodology is for managing head room from production thru master

Very interesting and helpful vid - thank you! One thing - the processing you do at the end on the master channel: do you consider that part of mixing, or self-mastering? And not 'call it what you want': would you do master channel tweaks before sending to a mastering engineer (though, I think you are one; this is my confusion). Thanks again; respect 😉

Excellent video, I’m 45 years old, I’ve dedicated my life to music more than most have. I started drums when I was 3 years old, I also play guitar, bass and keys. I’ve always played in multiple bands across multiple genres. I also produce and DJ, again across multiple genres. I also produce and compose for moving image, ie game audio, film, tv, jingles, brands, earcons, art installations etc. I have diplomas, degrees and masters in music performance and production. I’ve been a drum tech, sound engineer, recording engineer, mix and master engineer, MD, tutor, I’ve own and ran studios, events, I’ve worked with hundreds of the biggest names in the industry across all genres, at the most well known venues, studios, festivals etc etc. And this is the watered down short version. I do way more stuff than I’ve mentioned. I say all this to illustrate the point that I know what I’m talking about, not to show off. I still feel like I’ve got loads to learn and feel like a noob compared to the people I know! All the advice in this video was decent, there’s nothing to pick on or criticise here. Of course there’s a lot more that could have been said on the subject, but that video would take years! And it’s clearly obvious that Philip here knows all the other knowledge that would take years to discuss! However this video was very thorough and concise and to the point for it’s purpose. For those of you who are serious about music and have years of production experience and more importantly experience around other advanced and experienced producers you’ll have picked up by the way Philip speaks, his word choice, how he explains and expresses, his manner and subtle pearls of wisdom that he’s a professional that has years of experience. We should be supporting and encouraging our fellow musicians and producers when they start a channel to help them grow, especially when the content is quality and it’s free! There’s clearly a few unhappy people in the comments section here (shock horror!) to all the haters, get off the computer, get out into nature and fresh air, do some exercise, raise your heart heart and sweat lots! You can thank me later! 😂 liked, subbed and I’ll no doubt share! Greetings from Aberdeen Scotland! Cheers! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤍🌀🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Thanks, mate! Please may I ask, why would you not want to use abletons limiter for mastering?

I really love your channel. Just discovered it. I would love for you to do something like this with 3rd party plugins just to show what you would use if you were going to release it professionally. I am just curious as I have spent wayyyyyy too much money on 3rd party plugins so it would be nice to see that someday. Thanks for all you do!!!!!

after 20 years of composing my heartbeat pumps like allways with the bpm, i needed to stop your video and i will never produce that fast kick drums, that was a bad trip omg

u made me subscribe :D

It would be great to listen to "before and after" comparison on the same LUFS levels.

Hey Phillip- I’m a huge fan of the channel, and was wondering if maybe I could request a topic for a video. I’m a huge fan of the Detroit techno scene; and was wondering if you could do a tutorial on mixing your 909s to mimic those of Jeff Mills and Claude Young. I know it is very niche, but I thought I’d ask- thank you so much, and please continue the wonderful work!

What do you sidechain the kick compressor to?

Can you use glue compressor to limit the clap?

Hello. 10:30 Why is it RMS and not Peak? Thank you.

i didn´t get what the glue compressor does specifically can anybody help ?

Really good