Bass EQ tips: how to tighten up your low end

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Without proper EQ moves, low end instruments can muddy up your sound. Follow along as engineer Sam Loose shares top EQ tips for mixing bass to sit well in the mix, including how to clean up your low end as well as different EQ techniques to better fit your bass in the frequency spectrum. By the end of this video, you will be able to give your bass clarity and create depth and dimension in your mix.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:36 The role of bass in the mix
01:42 How to prep your low end
02:30 1. Clean lows with high-pass filters
05:05 2. Apply EQ boosts
08:01 3. Pocket mixing
10:32 4. Sidechain with dynamic EQ
12:57 5. Low end harmonics
15:29 Upward dynamic EQ
16:35 Outro
#izotope #proaudio #mixing #eq #bass #lowend
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@shawnburge4978 4 ай бұрын

Mr. Loose talking about tightening up the low end. Haha love it

@SamLoose 4 ай бұрын

You can’t make this stuff up…

@kickstar1 19 күн бұрын

Beat me to it you bastard lol

@BeeSquared 3 ай бұрын

THE INVERSE LINK FEATURE IS NUTS!!! I bought a bundle a long time ago that came bundled with Neutron 3 and I had no idea this existed. Thank you for showing this feature off! It's amazing!!

@usedusermoser 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tuts Mr Loose on how to tighten my low end! It’s hard to know without any external reference specially using headphones. The visuals are quite handy in neutron I never used them before.

@hardzeeo7181 4 ай бұрын

Accurate work as always. Thanks Izotope 🥂

@euong1 4 ай бұрын

Multiband feature on trash2 with the high end being active is a great way to get your 808 to cut through in a mix.

@alexanderweingard1390 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@illfunk1967 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing ❤

@lance134679 4 ай бұрын

That's really easy to follow. Thanks.

@ObXession 4 ай бұрын

Nice and easy Clean, boost and pocket ! Thanks izotope 💎

@NanoLMM 25 күн бұрын

Thank you for this!!!

@rsdickson07 4 ай бұрын

Congrats D.A.D.!!

@speedcrawlmusic 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Sam! 🙌

@phoenixflyz_ 4 ай бұрын

Thanks, needed this!

@derSkeptika 4 ай бұрын

Best Video on this Channel thanx

@usung4 2 ай бұрын

thanks, Sam as always this is the best explanation

@sexyeur 4 ай бұрын

Izotope looking and *sounding* sharp with Neutron.

@LBJedi 4 ай бұрын

Something I like to do: Put Ozone Imager on the bass after saturating the miss/highs. Then give everything over 160-ish just a kiss of width.

@dj_kik 2 ай бұрын

Merci pour ce tuto :o)

@shomm_music 4 ай бұрын

Wow, i am often using the unmasking feature but i didnt know about the inverse link function and how it works. Great tutorial!

@mrheydu 4 ай бұрын

same, I was like 👀

@winslowdonovanmusic 4 ай бұрын

sam loose i love u

@slimproge1 3 ай бұрын

finally, something faster and synthetic was used as an example song here :) I would love to see you mix a fullOn / psytrance style song somewhere like 145 bpm with a galloping melodic bass line and a fast clicking kick. and the question immediately arises to me: what about the phase and exclusions in the kick bass relationship? Maybe in a technical song or in minimal or general EDM it doesn't play such a big role as during the first bass hit on the oscilloscope it overlaps when the tail of the kick sine is still sounding and the sidechain doesn't help much hehe😀 and it would also be worth mentioning that it's sharp and light lo cut on the sub bass or kick shifts the phase, which results in mutual cancellation in the graph. (yes, I know about the existence of nonlinear eqs 😜) anyway, cool tips. we want more of them

@jonaspaulsson4977 4 ай бұрын

Hi! I would love to see a tutorial how you use Neutron in a Reggae mix Especially Bass and kick

@thomairkevinryan4170 4 ай бұрын

Does cutting like 3:30 won't engage in phase issues ?

@NOEL-004 4 ай бұрын

with a -12 dB its less problematic. -24dB or -48dB or brickwall is worse im not a professional so correct me if im wrong but thats what I know🙃

@ErixSamson 4 ай бұрын

I understand the logic here, but I think this kind of mix driven by kick tends to make all songs sounding pretty much the same (boom - boom - boom - boom). Might be OK for EDM, not so sure for other styles where bass is not just an "impact", but also brings groove and different notes.

@HOLLASOUNDS 4 ай бұрын

You can choose if You want kick or Bass to be lower then the other. Hiphop tends to sound better with the bass lower then the kick but in DNB its the opposite.

@wolfhard2420 4 ай бұрын

If your bassdrum sounds boom boom, your mixes seem to be muddy. The indication being there is not enough separation of kick and bass. Which is a key to a successful or a bad mix. Most amateur mixes are terribly bass heavy and sound terrible especially after being maximized when lot of the access bass is converted into loads of distortion to make up for a solid lack of headroom before.

@HOLLASOUNDS 4 ай бұрын

@@wolfhard2420 Use headphones and a refrence track to hear and see the difference.

@ErixSamson 4 ай бұрын

@@wolfhard2420 By "boom - boom" I meant too much kick drum, so that at the end you just hear it and you just kill the bass signal.

@psypower999 4 ай бұрын

I can confirm this is true, I’ve learned mastering and if you do this to certain music then it takes away a lot of the track’s elements and it feels like something is always missing

@dspoet1 4 ай бұрын

Please make RX Connect compatible within Studio One. Yall have the technology to do it. 😊

@Millerboy 4 ай бұрын

Why would you measure the loudness difference in LUFS when mixing the low end? You can have true peaks that are higher and use more headroom but have a lower LUFS reading, right?

@HOLLASOUNDS 4 ай бұрын

They just choose some elements of focus for the video targeted mostly for beginners. Nothing He said here is anything I didn't already know and do already.

@Millerboy 4 ай бұрын

@@HOLLASOUNDS that has nothing to do with my question, lol. But yes, these are obviously beginner tutorials.

@mattwhite399 4 ай бұрын

Is that a “Dad” shirt?

@SamLoose 4 ай бұрын

It most certainly is 😎

@mattwhite399 4 ай бұрын

@@SamLoosenice! I love it!

@RichLifeEnt 2 ай бұрын

In Pro Tools it only lets me sidechain buses, how do I get it to sidechain from other neutron eq bands

@HOLLASOUNDS 4 ай бұрын

Export your track and put the your in a app like audacity with a reference track, how does it look, are there any visible peaks? Does your track look like a cactus, vs the smooth rounded reference track, because if so You need compression. Ones your track and the reference track look very similar then play them side by side back on as many different speaker and headphonesas possible. Do both your track and the reference track sit well together side by side at the same volume? If its Yes then your done.

@sorenandrews1078 4 ай бұрын

I mean, that's a bit like saying lets go back to Oil Lamps over Electricity. This may have been good advice 15+ years ago, but in the new digital age, music mixing has evolved. Especially since most of the music is made for digital platforms listened to on cellphones or pods. Not only that, but the track you are referencing was likely mixed on hardware, not software. Will it "look" the same? Sure, but will it sound the same? Absolutely not.

@HOLLASOUNDS 4 ай бұрын

@@sorenandrews1078 KZfaq blocked My comment but no its not, because I used Reason 4 for since 2007 up until 2021 lol 15 years before upgrading to 12 so I'm exactly the person your talking about.

@DEL8_PL 4 ай бұрын

8:00 just turn volume up on the sub rather than messing with Eq and phase :D.

@HOLLASOUNDS 4 ай бұрын

No because that would be changing the mix which is mixing, vs this videos topic which mastering.

@HOLLASOUNDS 4 ай бұрын

@@DEL8_PL I think with mixing its sometimes easy to over think it. Sometimes I look at a mix that sounds good but its very mono but sometimes that kinda works, it can be a bit annoying when something is panned one side without something complementing the other. Alot of famus 80s tunes had this problem only really noticeable in headphones.

@JayYarbroughMusic 4 ай бұрын

Sorry in advance for the lameness element I'm thinking about but, an AI that applies these settings?

@FurebyMusic 4 ай бұрын

Level compensate please......

@DoitYHWH 4 ай бұрын

@iZotopeOfficial if I purchase Neutron 4, does it also come with previous versions of Neutron?

@DEL8_PL 4 ай бұрын

@victor.b4529 4 ай бұрын

It’s a matter of taste, but for me, version before processing seems better balanced

@audionerdlilcuz 4 ай бұрын

Damn ever since Nicholas did his kick bass mix vid everyone doing them, 😂 KZfaq.

@Twipro1 4 ай бұрын

I'm the second to comment i need a MacBook Pro izotope 🥈😅

@Gaby-Lopez 4 ай бұрын

Jaja eso no es un bajo eso es un teclado jaja, el bajo tiene 4 , ( 5 o 6 ) cuerdas y no tiene nada que ver con un teclado, hubera sido lindo decirle a Jaco que que el lugar delbajo era ocupar los graves, nunca voy a enterder porque le ponen un compresor a un teclado 🤔

@shyambihari8947 4 ай бұрын

First comment gift me mac book pro izotope

@goodtimejohnny8972 4 ай бұрын

Now work on video quality. This video is so dark I have my contrast way up to try and compensate. Maybe there is a vampire filter on, I'll check......

@robbiemichaels2347 4 ай бұрын

Get your eyes examined- really nice positive comment

@russenduf 4 ай бұрын

Video is great.....something is wrong in your settings

@th8132 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, get your eyes examined. Video looks fine.

@robbiemichaels2347 4 ай бұрын

@@russenduf Most likely he’s just a twat

@robbiemichaels2347 4 ай бұрын

@@th8132 He’s obviously someone who just like to criticize someone who has done nothing wrong but won’t ever do this himself with his huge 1 person following him