Mixing low end

Find out how low your monitors and headphones can go. Don’t boost what you can’t hear.¹ My AKG K240 headphones are best for monitoring subs.

Roll off low end on any instruments that don’t need it.¹

• First get the midrange right
• How to balance kick and bass
• Mixing bass
• Mixing kick drum
• Mixing bass drops
• Put your bass and kick in phase
• Stereoize a secondary bass instrument
• Saturating low end
• Managing resonances on bass
• Add a sub bass with midi
• Dialing in a gate on bass frequencies
• Sidechaining kick and bass
• Compress drums and bass together
• Expand low end for clarity
• Use a limiter on the low-end
• Use multiband compression to control low end
• Boost the highs on the side and the lows on the mid
• Use a big block size on a frequency analyzer to check bass