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If I told you that there’s one instrument that drives the groove of your song even more than your drums, would your first thought be the bass? If not, it should be.
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Like most engineers, I’m sure you’ve dealt with mixes that sound like a bunch of tracks pig-piled on top of each other and are fighting for room to breathe in the pile. Even those who took the time and care to clean some of this up during tracking will need to do a bit of work to pull everything apart.
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A few weeks back, we took a look at some of the best ways to approach heavy guitar chugs in the mix. We walked through the guttural, bass-heavy sound of a low-tuned or extended range guitars, and made a few suggestions on the best way to get them to sit in your mix.
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Hey, we’ve all made bonehead mistakes. It doesn’t mean you’re some kind of idiot that can’t tell a bass guitar from a largemouth bass, it just means at some point or another you’ve made a mistake that you should’ve seen coming from a mile away.
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