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Originally posted by Bang
well, after toying around with the 40Hz thing I came up with a few things:
when you boost 40Hz you're also boosting a bit of 50 and basically this gives the bass a lot of sublows ummph... then you compress the hell out of it ( I did it with a dbx 160 which is as close to the SSL channel comp that Andy uses as I'm going to get) and then this makes that sublow HUUUUM. I hear this on some AW stuff (but his is obviously TIGHTER). Now kicks love 80Hz so I use a post compressor eq on the bass now and dip 80Hz and then your kick comes back into play. Then I eq'd the "real" low end of the bass at about 120Hz to 150Hz. So this gives you a bass that lies BOTH below AND above the kick but leaves a little hole for it. You could also just trigger gate the bass with the kick. Now Andy could have just done that 40Hz thing on that one record and could do something totally diferent which I'd love to find out.
Steve
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It works the best with GML 8200 with a very narrow Q.
Its actually one of the sounds where it excels very well.
Most people know it as a great transparent EQ, but its killer on bass and kicks.