#115: Need More Low End? How To Fix A Thin Sounding Bass Recording

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Have you ever fought a bass guitar (or any bass instrument) in your mix that was just not big enough?

Here's what you can do to compensate for a lack of low end in your recordings and add weight to otherwise thin sounding tracks.

In this episode we're walking you through different methods of creating extra bottom end (or the perception of it) if the tone you have just doesn’t have enough of it.

This is why you should know about these techniques:

You can’t bring out with an EQ what is not there at all. If your track never had any content below a certain frequency, there's nothing you could boost, right? So you need to add new low end instead of featuring what's already there.

Maybe you’ve recorded a small amp, or your playing high up on the neck all the time but still want the "weight", maybe your instrument is not a real bass, at all, but you want to make it sound like one, maybe your low end is there from time to time, but not consistently.

There are all sorts of situations and reasons for why you should know how to add extra weight and low end to your bass tones.

These are the methods we're discussing on the episode:

- Plugins like RBass, MaxxBass or bx_subsynth
- Multiband-Saturation tools like FabFilter Saturn or Steinberg Quadrafuzz
- Other software/hardware tools and how to combine them to add low end
- layering MIDI bass below the actual performance
- Dealing with a too dynamic, inconsistent low end and how to lock it in place to make it sound bigger
- How to avoid the whole issue in the first place

For full show notes go to: https://theselfrecordingband.com/115

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