How to Use a Mix Bus Compressor, and How to EQ and Compress Bass Frequencies when Mixing Audio Your Questions: 1) I'm getting my mixes close to being done (I hope) and I'm interested in the issue of what to put on the master busses. For example, I know some people like to start mixing with an SSL compressor or whatever on the mastering bus. Some people put it at the end (which is what I did since I found out about this in the middle of mixing this project). I notice it gels the sound together so that's cool. Now what is your preference on this? 2) And second thing, this is really bugging me and I need an answer lol what do you do to enhance the bass in recordings? you know how metal and rock recordings have that big bass sound, how do you do that? I watched a video that talked about multi-band compressors to boost the low frequencies, which definitely works. I put one on the master bus, BUT is that something that is generally left to the mastering engineer? the mult...
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