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whats with electro basslines?
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| XvN |
Howcome electro basslines seem to frequently have the bass note hitting at the same time as the kick drum? I thought the idea was to try and avoid this so that the kick and bass don't overlap in the sound spectrum?
Cheers. |
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| Ry Thomas |
| Try using bandpass or notch on your eq to seperate these 2, should work fine. |
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| thoughtlessjex |
I've never really encountered a genre where producers regularly avoid putting the bass and kick on the same beat. Quite offten I hear the opposite.
Just EQ your bass and kick so they dominate different ranges. |
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| echosystm |
| Basslines are almost always ducked these days to alleviate this problem somewhat ;) |
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| Sanguis Mortuum |
| quote: | Originally posted by XvN
Howcome electro basslines seem to frequently have the bass note hitting at the same time as the kick drum? I thought the idea was to try and avoid this so that the kick and bass don't overlap in the sound spectrum?
Cheers. |
Nah theres no reason to avoid this. In many genres, like DnB, its unavoidable. |
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| cybernetica |
| The trick is just EQ and I totally suck at EQ separation of kick and bass. If anyone got some suggestions which frequencies to raise and to cut on kick and bass pls post em :) |
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| cybernetica |
| Pretty good thanks! |
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| Sanguis Mortuum |
Well, depends on the genre really. In DnB for example, sidechaining isnt used as much because the bass tends to sit underneath the kick, but I guess in electro, which this thread is about, sidechaining is much more popular. Its definately possible to get a bass and kick sitting together without sidechaining though, providing you dont choose a bass and a kick that occupy exactly the same frequencies of course... |
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| alanzo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sanguis Mortuum
providing you dont choose a bass and a kick that occupy exactly the same frequencies of course... |
To do this, either the kick or the bass would have to have nothing below 100hz. Like you said, this is done often in DnB where the kick has no bass and all the sub-frequencies come from the bass synth.
Come to think of it, I've heard a few electro tracks that do something like that... where the kick has very little low-frequencies. |
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| Pjotr G |
| I don't think sidechaining is in order here. Proper sound selection and mixing are more important. Think of funk, where the bass often hits with the kick. It can make for a very driving combo between drums and bass. |
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