As I recently covered with my bass guitar frequency chart, the bass and kick have a lot of overlap in their fundamental ranges. Typically the fundamental thickness of the kick which we feel just as importantly as hear peaks around 70Hz. This is right between the open A and D strings on the bass guitar,
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The bass guitar’s fundamental frequencies are heavily concentrated within roughly 150Hz of one another. Knowing this can help you better EQ your bass guitar, so let’s take a look at this bass guitar frequency chart to better understand the important frequencies of our bass guitar. Bass Guitar Frequency Chart Below 40Hz Short of drop tuning,
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I’ve talked at length about the compression settings in the past, including the compressor’s release feature. The release on a compressor dictates how long compression is still applied after the signal drops below the threshold. You can set this anywhere from instant to over a second. There’s typically also an option to set the release
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The mix bus chain is any processing you have at the top level of your mix. Any effects you drop on here will affect your entire mix. As such, anything you use on here should be relatively subtle. Furthermore, any processing you have on your mix bus chain should not be meant to fix any
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Acoustic guitar can be a difficult instrument to mix. It’s one of those instruments which usually falls into one of two extremes, even after mixing it. It’s either bright but thin, or it’s too muddy or boomy and lacks clarity. How to mix acoustic guitar properly is a balancing act, so let’s talk about the
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