So I’m going to be talking about mixing the bass in an alt-rock type of record. Sort of calling upon a mid-90’s alt-rock/pop sort of sound.
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So this is going to be about considering the bass in this particular style of song as the fourth guitar.
So traditionally, your arrangement would be something like a lead guitar, you’d have a couple of rhythms, and then you’d have the bass, and that makes your big guitar sound.
It’s supposed to sound like a big wall where you have it very low, very high, very wide, and it’s just huge guitars all over. Those are the four main components. So I think of the bass as a fourth guitar.
I mean, technically it is a guitar of course, but I think of it to blend it in with the higher register guitars.
Watch the video and see what I mean and how it works…
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