final mixing

[michaellpenman]

You may be not having a propper gain set up.
When you play bass is it peaking the meters (Turning red)
What speakers do you have, and what settings do you have on them?

the volume does not go up on red. speakers are pioneer cs-777 (pretty old) set to normal bass/treble

I would check your cables. Or how you have your speaker set up.
They should be equal distance apart from the distance you are from them

[thebeatcatcher2]

Sure

Same your bass and kick take up the same frequencies, This can cause a doubling which is not good cause it cause a muddy bottom end, so allow space in a mix you sidechain the kick to the bass. So when ever the kick plays the bass ducks out ( Fades out)

So what to do.

In live 7 onwards.
Once you have your loops.
Set up a compressor on your bass.
Press the > in the top left of your compressor. This will open the sidechain part.
Now choose the routing from the kick channel.
This will start to duck you bass when the kick plays.
Play with the threshold (This is what level the sidechain kicks in), the lower you go the more ducking will happen.
Also play with the attack and release setting. The Attack will control how long it takes the sidechain to kick in. And the release will control how long the release will stop. With a short release the sidechain will cut out quickly with a long release it will take a while to stop the sidechain.

I hope this helps

This does help greatly, great tip thank you.

What I usually do is set up kind of an alternating comb filter for each with a graphic EQ on the lows, cutting (-3 to -6dB) different freq's on each. Briefly, 60Hz is cut on the bass, but not the kick and 80Hz is cut on the kick but not the bass, and so forth, depending on the best setup for each tone. Anyway, the goal is try and give them their own share of the low end.

So can I set up an EQ to only activate/process when the kick and bass occur simultaneously?