question What's the Secret to Mixing Kick drums and Bass in a Mix?

[Numero Uno]

How do you mix kick and bass instruments in a mix?

 

[Goldmidi]

There aren't absolute techniques or tips for mixing kick and bass sounds in a song but there are guidelines such as having your kick drum in front of your bass or vice versa.

 

[Numero Uno]

There aren't absolute techniques or tips for mixing kick and bass sounds in a song but there are guidelines such as having your kick drum in front of your bass or vice versa.

Can you explain what that means?

 

[Goldmidi]

Can you explain what that means?

It's genre-specific and a matter of subjective taste.

In most cases, the kick drum isn't meant to prominently occupy frequencies below 20 Hz to roughly about 50 Hz because this will result in a phenomenon known as auditory masking i.e. your kick drum will be competing with your bass guitar or synth bass.

But that doesn't mean you have to filter out everything below 50 Hz on every single kick drum with low-cut or high-pass filters.

 

[Borrowdale Barron]

Mixing kick drums and bass it's one of my worst nightmares.