This is in response to the track posted. I could be wrong, but it sounds like a lot of compression and excitation is being used right now, and i don't think it's helping the bass stand out.bigdaveo11 wrote: 1. How come you avoid compression on any of the individual.channels? Not questioning this technique just curious.
By no means is my method the end all be all, and I use compression on individual tracks all the time, but for bass, I tend to send my bass vsti layers to a bass buss and then compress THAT instead of heavy compression of seperate channels.
Parallel compression can be done two ways, either as a send effect, or in a channel's effects chain. I was referring to the bass bus, before master.bigdaveo11 wrote: 2. When u parallel compress at the end of the chain are u meaning on the final aux/bus where everything is routed back to.before heading out to the master?
I dont use logic, but this is the way i usually do it:bigdaveo11 wrote: 3. When sitting up routing to split your bass track (using Logic) is the easiest/most efficient
I use seperate vsti's, or multiple instances to create individual layers, all playing the same notes. Then I will make one layer the sub, and one the mid-ish track. The sub tends to be sines and triangles, and the mid tends to be more harmonicly rich osc's like squares and saws. Each vsti layer goes to its own channel, and the sub channel will often be left alone. The mid channel is where the fun happens, with slight reverb, stereo effects, distortion, parallel processing etc. THEN that gets sent to a bass buss where i use a compressor to squish the sub and mids together.
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