snakedogman wrote:Well if I listen to your example and your own sound, are you sure it's the bass that's lacking in power? Because I don't really feel like your little loop lacks bass so much, but it's hard to compare a simple loop to a fully mixed track. A lot of the power and energy of the example comes from the tempo, the percussion, the mix/master (compression/limiting, maybe things like console or tape saturation which can "glue" the mix together and enhance the low end as well.) But overall I think there may be actually less bass than in your loop.
Keeping the bass mono has been mentioned but if you listen to the example track, the bass is actually stereo! Or to be more precise, probably the sub-bass part is mono, but there's a mid/high component as well that has some kind of widening effect on it. A common technique in EDM/trance. Using racks you can split sounds into different frequency components and apply different effects to each component. Or of course you can start with two different sounds on different tracks, one for just sub, with all the highs filtered out, and one with a bit more mid and high with all the bass filtered out. Mix them together to taste so it sounds like one sound.
Also it's good practice to cut super-low frequencies from you sounds, including the bass (say, below 30-40 HZ) as you won't hear this anyway and it will take up space in the mix.
Maybe the power is already there, and that clarity is more of what I'm looking for. Right now I think it sounds a bit "woofy"
(if that is a English word) if you know what I mean.
And I actually thought it was in mono already, but you're probably right. I will look into that too
Anyways, thank you for the tips!
