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[b]Originally posted by vikernes Anyway, the "most musical way" to deal with this (according to Bob Katz) is explained here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evJo5_qt6mY

Top link - thanks mate.

Hey - I went to Great Exuma in the Bahamas not so long ago btw.

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Originally posted by johno27 Sampling bass patches can work very well as previously mentioned as it ensures that every note played is essentially using the same "source" audio.

This is why Nexus is excellent for bass.

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Originally posted by Pjotr G I suspect that you 'evening out' the notes, would mean that you are compensating in the track for your speakers and your room. These are the factors that make different notes at the same volume sound at another volume. Have you checked on different speakers / in another room?

This.

If the notes are separated from each other by silence, you can simply import the bassline into an audio editor and manually adjust them.

I get this issue lots when mastering peoples tunes. The key is to fix it in the mix with an eq, but it ends up in the mastering stage too.

Key follow or compression rarely help a resonating bass note. What you need to do is find the note and notch out that resonating frequency for that note. there's a few ways of doing this. 1) is to strap an EQ to that bass channel, set a notch filter of 10q (in other words, a thin bandwidth) sweep through the frequencies, find the evil one and tame it as need.

2) the other method is if you know what note is resonating, just set your EQ to that Freq and notch it out. For example if the bass is resonating the note "C" then you'd notch out 65Hz, 130hz... If it's the "A" note, it would be 55Hz, 110hz... etc.

good luck,

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Originally posted by ONDRAY I get this issue lots when mastering peoples tunes. The key is to fix it in the mix with an eq, but it ends up in the mastering stage too. Key follow or compression rarely help a resonating bass note. What you need to do is find the note and notch out that resonating frequency for that note. there's a few ways of doing this. 1) is to strap an EQ to that bass channel, set a notch filter of 10q (in other words, a thin bandwidth) sweep through the frequencies, find the evil one and tame it as need. 2) the other method is if you know what note is resonating, just set your EQ to that Freq and notch it out. For example if the bass is resonating the note "C" then you'd notch out 65Hz, 130hz... If it's the "A" note, it would be 55Hz, 110hz... etc. good luck,

That soundslike expert advice, cheers mate.

PS - to some who keep mentioning monitors and rooms - NO NO NO and and extra side helping of NO. This is about many a bass line where only CERTAIN notes resonate too loud WHEREVER THEY ARE PLAY'D.

People who don't know this problem need to listen better - this problem occurs on lots of basslines, in fact on nearly every one. If you say you have'nt had this problem, you ai'nt listened to your stuff deeply enough.

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Originally posted by Richard Butler PS - to some who keep mentioning monitors and rooms - NO NO NO and and extra side helping of NO. This is about many a bass line where only CERTAIN notes resonate too loud WHEREVER THEY ARE PLAY'D.

Yes, if it resonates everywhere at a certain frequency, and other songs don't, then there's a problem.

However, it is good to be aware of the frequency balance of your room. Many rooms will have problem spots, and if you're not aware of them you may try to correct bass problems which aren't there. That's not the case for you in this instance, but it's still good advice for people reading a thread about this issue.

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