#02 Perfecting your kick and bass

Mixing low end is one of the most requested topics to cover: a lot of producers struggle with it, mostly because the room acoustics and speaker setup isn’t ideal. But there are ways to address overlapping frequencies, and here we’ll use our favourite, tried and tested mixing techniques to get your low end thick and powerful. We’ll start with the obvious – but often overlooked – level balancing and tuning of the bass. As always, fixing the sound at the source brings the best results. Therefore we first try to use tricks like shortening the release of the bass within the synth,