Low End Therapy - Kick & Bass Mixing Tricks & Tips - UA Office Hours #115

Join the UA Office Hours Crew as they show you a variety of tried and true tricks to get your kick and bass living together in harmony. Timestamps: 0:00 Countdown 8:09 Intro 11:08 Top comments from last week 17:15 The importance of using reference tracks 19:01 How monitoring level affects frequency perception 26:14 Don’t overuse solo when mixing 29:26 Enhancing low frequencies with saturation & distortion 30:55 Using EQ to give kick & bass their own space 40:05 Sidechaining bass to make room for the kick 46:00 Chat Question: Is sidechaining just for EDM? 48:15 Mixing multiple bass layers 50:40 Widening mid bass with chorus 54:32 Filtering to clean up low end 58:16 Chat Question: What cutoff frequency should I use? 1:00:52 Carving out space for bass & guitars with EQ 1:06:20 Gain staging & the magic of VU meters 1:13:35 Making bass frequencies mono using bx_digital V3 1:20:28 Phase coherency & low frequencies 1:21:44 Using Little Labs IBP to phase align multi-mic’d bass guitar 1:28:15 Using Little Labs IBP to