Drum and bass mixing

[Candyandcoke]

Can anyone share some techniques on how to separate drums and bass in DNB productions

[enroe]

sidechaining!

[pvad]

At the low frequencies use EQ filtering, i.e., reduce some of the bass frequencies that spill into the kick drum range, and vice versa.

[100percentWILF]

Often these days I’ve been hi passing my kicks/breaks slightly more than usual, especially if the bass is fairly low mid heavy. Usually play it by ear and start hi pass at 120 hz (12db) and slowly move the cutoff down until I’m happy there’s enough low end in kick without it being unnecessary.

[trymhc]

I love sidechaining the kick to the bass, but there is another trick that works wonders for the snare. Whatever other melodies, or even the higher frequencies of the bass, try to sidechain the snare to those melodies too. Essentially, the kick is sidechained to the low frequencies, and the snare is to the higher frequencies, but remember to not make the snare stand out too hard. You don't need to fully duck the higher frequencies with the snare in the same way the kick and lower frequencies are.

[dysjoint]

Dynamic eq or Soothe 2 type plugin to just duck the necessary frequencies. Also, if the kick and snare are mono, only apply the ducking to the mid channel, leave the sides untouched.

[ultrashock]

The best technique is to move the phase in the bass so that the barrel with the bass is not jammed. Well, or as they said above. Dynamic EQ. When the barrel beats, the bass muffles at that moment.