[Tom Sigmond]

Hello Michael,


I'm into dance (house) music. For some people an ugly word, I hope not for you.
Some people think its easy but its not. There's so much going on in such a piece of music and especially the bass/kick is a hard one.
They have to be tight, punchy, have body and loudness. And the rest of the mix still has to have enough space to be there too!

I get everything as I want it but the bass and kick still is more a lucky shot than knowledge.
In a good piece of house muziek with a tight, loud and punchy low end, it seems like the low end is very short and chops of so the mix doesn't get into blurb.
I'm curious how to achieve that becausse the low end is a slow traveler frequencie and although I use a short sound, it seems to sound a bit longer.

If I make it too short, the low end is disappearing.
If I put a compressor on it, the fatness of the low end disappears.
If I use a compressor with the low frequency switch so the low end say 100hz< doesn't triggers the compressor, I don't get this tight low end sound either. Its then more compressing the presence of the kick and bass.

I've tried multiband compression on the end mix but it didn't cut it. I mostly screwed up my mix by trying this.

You know the trick(s) for this?

I have a pair of distressors (with britisch mode) and an Alan Smart C2 if you know some settings on those to try out. (Also have a Focusrite Green 4 and Valley 610 but don't think they cut it. Have to say the Valley is something special with its very fast attack)


Thanks in advance,


grtz. Tom