Hello,

I've posted a track of mine several months ago on Reddit and was looking for feedback. I legit guy which had his own music classes pointed out to me that my bass was good mixing and mastering wise. Or that it needed attention. Well, he was right? Because I made the song on 20 dollar headphones, small ones.

Now, I bought myself a set of studio monitors but to me, I havent really adjusted it yet but I dont really see what he saw so wrong about it so that's why im here asking the question How to properly mix and master the bass a.k.a. the kick and bassline of this song.

This is the track:


Any tips or advice?

 

bass is in mono, low cut it at 40hz and saturate it hard, there is no sub in the kick or the bass, so you need to saturate to get them beefed up, then limited. Multiband compression on master then limiter again to about -9 lufs,

You are gainstaging badly for the low end, but the effects and all other elements are cool,

You need to cut sub to get sub, in this track pick a better kick and the kick should hit -0db bass should hit -12 to -6db when mixing

There is alot you can do, this track is unmastered aswell so if i mastered it i could get some lows out of it.

When mixng kick and bass think of level kick nr hit hardest then a bass that complement the kick, also important to choose right samples and key of kick and bass, if key of song is G use a Gsharp kick leaving the bass in G free, also get a good vibe going down there.

There is alot you can do, in this track it sounds unmastered and there is a mono kick that had reverb on it, or something, atleast get a better kick and try to mix like i said 0db kick into limiter -6 to 12 db bass then build ur track around those levels, there is no right or wrong.

But if you want bass you need to do my last suggestion more or less, i am not pro but ive been mixing bass for 4 years so i can help you,

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I like your track

 

why lowcut at 40? lol i go way up to 100.
But never looked up the science on this..
anyway, all the rules are there just to help... learn all, deconstruct all, do what you please cos if it sounds good, it is good.

critique:
track is quite dull... boring.
mix volumes are not that bad but its still not in place... get the mix better.
there's simply not enough happening. Elements can be better intertwined, make them more glued together... not just like they are paralel to each other... but all together.. for lack of better wording.

And jonny boy is right, you have abs no bottom.


slap a comrepssor and camel crush on the master on 11 - annihilation - quick master.