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Mixing Deep house/G House/Future House
« on: February 23, 2016, 08:08:46 pm »
How would you go about mixing these genres? Would you still cut everything (including bass) at 200 hz to leave room for the kick? Should you keep the low frequencies (>200) and sidechain? What should be the loudest in the mix, the kick/drums or the bass?

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Re: Mixing Deep house/G House/Future House
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2016, 10:50:05 pm »
So I'm not an expert on the Hz for bass house or Hz in general, but I would tend to think the genre wouldn't matter. If you need something more bassy, you adjust or EQ it to where you need it.

As for what should be loudest in the mix, I would say to listen to some other bass house songs you like and determine what they made stand out. Some people might say the drums and others may say the bass. Me personally, in house music the drums should be pretty prominent as they drive the song.

Not sure this will help you, but if anything it got you a bump. Maybe someone else can shine some light on this for you.
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Re: Mixing Deep house/G House/Future House
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2016, 12:18:06 pm »
this type of music is all centered around drums and bass. So it will be a good place to start to have your kick most prominent and mix everything around that. - generally the rule of thumb with any dance music I guess.

Hz don't necessarily matter - just use your ears. I do have certain cutoff points I tend to automatically roll off too but this isn't a necessity. In my opinion only having the kick taking up 0-200Hz is too sparse - wont be much low end pressure.
This style of music is usually relatively easy to mix - due to the fact it doesn't have many parts. Less is more if you like.

So get a good drum mix and a good relationship between your kick and bass and you are practically there!

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Re: Mixing Deep house/G House/Future House
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2016, 05:58:34 am »
Generally the kick will always be the loudest part due to side-chain but, it all depends on what you want more prominent. If you wan't more Bass and less kick then bring up the volume of the bass a bit more, the compress the kick to bring out more of the transient, then either use a volume enveloper to tighten the kick then EQ out some of the sub or use a gentle highpass slope and take out sub information. Then Vice-versa for More Kick and less bass.

Here's some examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjx2oc2NRzA
Notice the kick has less sub information to compensate for a more prominent sub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFsAQwmq7eQ
Here the opposite happens the kick has a lot of sub information and the bass primarily occupies the Low midrange.

Hope this helps ya

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Re: Mixing Deep house/G House/Future House
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2016, 07:46:26 pm »
Generally the kick will always be the loudest part due to side-chain but, it all depends on what you want more prominent. If you wan't more Bass and less kick then bring up the volume of the bass a bit more, the compress the kick to bring out more of the transient, then either use a volume enveloper to tighten the kick then EQ out some of the sub or use a gentle highpass slope and take out sub information. Then Vice-versa for More Kick and less bass.

Here's some examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjx2oc2NRzA
Notice the kick has less sub information to compensate for a more prominent sub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFsAQwmq7eQ
Here the opposite happens the kick has a lot of sub information and the bass primarily occupies the Low midrange.

Hope this helps ya


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