. I do the same thing, and this can be super helpful/powerful. Also, I really like the bass! With that low pass filter it sits comfortably under the mix, giving everything a gently driving quality. Good job, thanks for sharing, and I hope you're well

[quote]Recently I've been writing songs as a kind of creative journal to process current events rather than focusing too much on the details of it. [/quote]. I do the same thing, and this can be super helpful/powerful. Also, I really like the bass! With that low pass filter it sits comfortably under the mix, giving everything a gently driving quality. Good job, thanks for sharing, and I hope you're well <3

The opening bass is full but subtle and works really well as a foundation. Great kick! I really like the plucked sound as well. Good bounce to the track while still keeping it mysterious. I think your basses work well together, but if you're concerned, there are plenty of bass frequencies to work with - you can always notch each one a little differently. Whatever you're doing here though seems to be working!

The opening bass is full but subtle and works really well as a foundation. Great kick! I really like the plucked sound as well. Good bounce to the track while still keeping it mysterious. I think your basses work well together, but if you're concerned, there are plenty of bass frequencies to work with - you can always notch each one a little differently. Whatever you're doing here though seems to be working!

[quote=dadboy][quote] Also, I really like the bass! With that low pass filter it sits comfortably under the mix, giving everything a gently driving quality. Good job, thanks for sharing, and I hope you're well <3[/quote] Thanks! These comments are actually helpful because I'm a classical musician but am still pretty unfamiliar with all the vocabulary for mixing, I just put an EQ on everything and mess around with it until the sound doesn't annoy me as much XD [quote=MRDRCAT] I think your basses work well together, but if you're concerned, there are plenty of bass frequencies to work with - you can always notch each one a little differently. Whatever you're doing here though seems to be working![/quote] Ok, that makes sense, that you can adjust so that each bass sound lives in its own frequency. I think when I talk about "bass" I'm meaning all the lower frequencies, I don't know the right name for it. But like if I have pads down there as well and everything starts resonating and interfering with each other, and i have no organized method to dealing with it, I just heavy-hand the EQs but end up losing a lot of the characteristics of the original sound in the process. I'm still learning all the technical stuff and vocabulary so this helps a lot, thanks!

Honestly, I'm the same way since I am also learning! Low frequencies really seem to interfere with each other more than the higher frequencies. The issue I have is that I will listen to the tracks one at a time and I love how each instrument sounds on its own. But together they create mud. So even though it hurts to change them, I have started to get more cavalier about applying EQ. It takes some thought and experimentation to decide what each bass sound is bringing to the song as a whole. One instrument might have a nice sharp attack, one might resonate nicely, and one has the best low rumble - so I would preserve more of the highs on the first, mids in the second, and lows on the third, and then EQ away as much of the rest as I can stand, trying to emphasise what each instrument does differently to the others. That way it clears the other low frequencies a little more so things don't clash as much.

I don't know if I'm making any sense, but basically it is a hard decision to make the actual instruments sound worse as individuals so that they sound better together.

[quote=clonedkitty]If I have pads down there as well and everything starts resonating and interfering with each other, and i have no organized method to dealing with it, I just heavy-hand the EQs but end up losing a lot of the characteristics of the original sound in the process. I'm still learning all the technical stuff and vocabulary so this helps a lot, thanks! [/quote] Honestly, I'm the same way since I am also learning! Low frequencies really seem to interfere with each other more than the higher frequencies. The issue I have is that I will listen to the tracks one at a time and I love how each instrument sounds on its own. But together they create mud. So even though it hurts to change them, I have started to get more cavalier about applying EQ. It takes some thought and experimentation to decide what each bass sound is bringing to the song as a whole. One instrument might have a nice sharp attack, one might resonate nicely, and one has the best low rumble - so I would preserve more of the highs on the first, mids in the second, and lows on the third, and then EQ away as much of the rest as I can stand, trying to emphasise what each instrument does differently to the others. That way it clears the other low frequencies a little more so things don't clash as much. I don't know if I'm making any sense, but basically it is a hard decision to make the actual instruments sound worse as individuals so that they sound better together.

Yeah, that makes sense! I guess kind of like trimming a hedge, you gotta look at the overall picture instead of mourning the loss of each twig XD

[quote=MRDRCAT] I don't know if I'm making any sense, but basically it is a hard decision to make the actual instruments sound worse as individuals so that they sound better together.[/quote] Yeah, that makes sense! I guess kind of like trimming a hedge, you gotta look at the overall picture instead of mourning the loss of each twig XD