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Building the mix from the bass - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Audio Mixing Bootcamp
Building the mix from the bass
If you listen to hit records from the '50s, '60s and '70s, the bass was the foundation of the songs, not the drums. A lot of old-school engineers still like to start from the bass and then build their mix around it. In this video, I am going to show you how to do just that. The first thing we are going to do, just like we did before when we were mixing from the drums, we are going to bring the bass level up so it's about -10 on the master mix meters. (music playing) Now it's going to peak a little above and go a little below. This is just an average. Now let's bring the kick so they are up just about the same level. (music playing) Now take notice, when the level is the same between the kick and the bass, you are going to see the master mix level meters increase by about 3 dB, so that means if we started around 10, it's going to be some where around -7. So take a look. That's just about where we're at now. (music playing) Okay, now we are going to bring the snare up so it's just about…
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Learning the principles of building a mix1m 1s
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Assigning the drums to a subgroup3m 55s
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Building the mix from the kick10m 8s
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Building the mix from the snare8m 46s
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Building the mix from the toms5m 25s
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Building the mix from the overhead mics3m 53s
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Checking the drum phase4m 44s
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Balancing direct and miked bass channels3m 36s
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Building the mix from the bass3m 26s
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Building the mix from the vocals4m 19s
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Balancing the rhythm section2m 44s
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Balancing the rest of the instruments with the rhythm section5m 22s
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Making a mix without building it4m 20s
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Balancing the harmony vocals2m 35s
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