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Do you struggle finding the right place to sit your bass guitar in a dense mix? It’s a tough instrument for a lot of engineers. While a lot of instruments fight for definition in the mid-range of the frequency spectrum, bass stretches toward the depths of your mix, encompassing frequencies shared with your kick drum, while still sharing a lot of its range with low-mid focused instruments.
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Vocal production requires a serious amount of finesse from engineers. It’s one of those skills that can keep a steady flow of work coming your way and it’s easy to hear why. When you absolutely nail a vocal in a song, others will notice. Here are just a few of the places you can start to create a powerful, attention-capturing vocal:

In a dense mix, an electric bass track can get easily buried in the background. It’s not anything you’ve done wrong really; our ears are just naturally inclined to pick up the mid/high frequency content (especially when there’s a lot of it).
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Unless you’ve gotten the chance to check out an anechoic chamber in person – everything you’ve ever heard has had some type of reverb or delay to it.
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Guitar solos are one of those things that you can never have enough of. Over the top shredding finds its way front and center in tons of rock & metal songs, as well as nearly every other genre that supports a bit of face-melting.
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