
petejt
Active member
Heaps of bass in a guitar tone can make it sound massive...on its own...
But in a mix it can get hidden and sound muddy, or just obscure the bass player.
Lots of folks are aware of the "lack of bass" on Metallica's ...And Justice For All, and are also aware of the 'enhanced bass' remixes posted on YouTube.
Below however is the track for Blackened, minus the guitars. Bass, drums, vocals, and some occasional background harmony guitars are present.
To my ears the mix is quite good. The bass sounds clear and present, although could sound more thunderous if played by fingerpicking rather than a plectrum.
Now here is the guitar tracks, in isolation...
Sure enough the crunchy evil razor-sharp top end rips your head off like a seething pitbull terrier foaming at the mouth, but to make up for the lack of midrange body, the bass frequencies are cranked to the great shithouse in the sky. On its own, it actually sounds rather woofy and cloudy.
It could be an overlay track to double the bottom-string notes, using an extra-bassy tone. But still...playing this against the bass clip, it just eats it up almost completely- all you hear is the big bassy guitar and some clicks from the actual bass guitar. If you lower the volume of the bass clip a bit, you get the master mix of the song.
But in a mix it can get hidden and sound muddy, or just obscure the bass player.
Lots of folks are aware of the "lack of bass" on Metallica's ...And Justice For All, and are also aware of the 'enhanced bass' remixes posted on YouTube.
Below however is the track for Blackened, minus the guitars. Bass, drums, vocals, and some occasional background harmony guitars are present.
To my ears the mix is quite good. The bass sounds clear and present, although could sound more thunderous if played by fingerpicking rather than a plectrum.
Now here is the guitar tracks, in isolation...
Sure enough the crunchy evil razor-sharp top end rips your head off like a seething pitbull terrier foaming at the mouth, but to make up for the lack of midrange body, the bass frequencies are cranked to the great shithouse in the sky. On its own, it actually sounds rather woofy and cloudy.
It could be an overlay track to double the bottom-string notes, using an extra-bassy tone. But still...playing this against the bass clip, it just eats it up almost completely- all you hear is the big bassy guitar and some clicks from the actual bass guitar. If you lower the volume of the bass clip a bit, you get the master mix of the song.