

This is one of my favorite ways to enhance bass.

You just need a bit of color to help the track cut through. To pull this off, just add a little crunch using your favorite distortion plugin (I like SoundToys’ Decapitator). Remember-a little goes a long way. (This is how plugins like Waves’ RBass and MaxBass work.) I call this the aural illusion technique, and it’s a great way to trick listeners into hearing low end on small speakers. Your brain fills in the blanks. Meaning you’ll hear low end, even when it’s not there. When you hear harmonics, you also “hear” the fundamental frequencies they were created from, even if those frequencies don’t actually exist. And since harmonics extend up the frequency spectrum, small speakers can play them back.īut that’s not the only reason this technique works. So how do you get an 808 to cut through on small speakers?ĭistortion creates harmonics. And small speakers can’t play back low end. Some tracks-like 808s and sine basses-disappear completely on small speakers.īecause tracks like these have almost all their frequency content in the low end. If key tracks become hard to hear or disappear when you kick in the EQ, the following techniques will help. Think about it-when you step back a few feet from any pair of speakers, you’re effectively listening in mono.) This will simulate the experience of listening on an iPhone or in a grocery store. To take this technique further, sum your mix bus to mono. (I recommend saving this as a preset, so you can pull it up easily while mixing.) The Poor Man’s AuratoneįabFilter’s Pro-Q 2, set up with the poor man’s Auratone technique Instead, just make sure whatever propels the groove and sells the song doesn’t disappear. Try to please everyone, and you’ll end up pleasing no one. An 808 will never sound massive on an iPhone. This is a waste of time, and will often lead to compromises that make things worse. Don’t Attempt The Impossibleĭon’t attempt to make a mix sound perfect on small speakers. Follow the advice below, and you’ll avoid this MacBook nightmare-guaranteed. The following tips will help you make mixes that sound great on small speakers. “Is this really how people are going to hear my mix?” You wonder. And the monstrous bass is a tinny, wimpy mess. Your “massive” kick sounds like a bag of rice being hit with a spoon. Suddenly, the 808 is nowhere to be found. “Should I call Mix Magazine for an interview?”īut before clicking bounce, you decide to listen one more time.

“Dave Pensado has nothing on me,” you conclude. You lean back in your cushy office chair and smile.

This is the typical tempo for G House music, the key was just what we thought sounded good.
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