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Hey!
I have a question for you guys. I want to completely remove the bass from the first seconds of my tune. How can you do that?
Thank you,

Sulto

You can either leave the bass track blank in the arrangement (don't have any notes playing); you can set the speaker to "off" in the recording view (and then turn it back "on" when you want bass to be in your track); there are actually many tricks to completely removing bass.

Do you have bass frequencies coming from other tracks in your song as well (i.e. kick)? If so, you can use EQ and just cut out all frequencies below... 200hz? I forget the exact cut off frequency between the lows and the mids... you can simply use your ears and do a "sweep" with the EQ and filter (the filter should be a high-pass, a curve that starts bottom left and goes to the upper right).

Hope that helps

Now here's a worse question:
Where's the equalizer?
(I've just started using Ableton 3 months ago)

you sure it's not three days?

it's under audio effects in the live browser

yes, i'm sure it's not "three days".

thanks

It's alright, everything takes time

Yeah, try to use an EQ (Live has EQ8 I believe) to cut out the bass, if you can't do it in arrangement (manually deleting the bass notes). For bass, you'll want to use either 1 or 2 of the EQ8 (there should be 8 different points on the line, which you can manipulate to increase/decrease certain frequency ranges).

Here's a picture of what the EQ looks like: http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x207 ... ure1-2.png

Another tip: my friend has everything rolled off below 40hz (using the 1st point on the EQ line). This is a common practice, because usually anything below that point is inaudible and just takes up space in your audio spectrum.

Anyway, don't let us bog you down -- we were all beginners before, and it's hard for us to come back to that "level" when dishing out advice, haha