gswitz
One member sat with me one evening and got a tune where she wanted it. But when she went home and listened to the mp3 on her laptop we were back to the drawing board.

That should have told her right there that maybe she and the rest of the band should be listening to you instead of giving you grief over the bass. I mean, of course it's gonna sound bass deficient if she's using a laptop as a reference.

gswitz
Great advice as always, Danny! I'm not spending. I'm trying to listen to others and to recordings and see what can learn.

Thanks for chiming in. I'm still working on that band recording from June. Man, sixteen tracks counts as freaking hard to mix! I did another five track in the mean time for Listening break.

The band keeps asking for more bass and I find it frustrating. I don't want to make a mix I wouldn't listen to.

Glad you found it helpful. I'm off for the night to do a show...when I get done, I'll see if I can post some "bass" info for you and hopefully get you a better result. :) Don't get frustrated....I still think you're da man. :)
 
-Danny

Thanks Danny! Have a great time, and don't let beer spill in your gear.

I tried that saturation for five hundred and above only on the bass and I've been really liking it!

Jeff Evans, I haven't been able to find a May issue yet at either of my local Guitar centers. I think I'll give the old library a try.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may13/articles/cubase-0513.htm

Here's the article. Enjoy. ;)

Thanks JS516. I'll probably cave and buy it.
I've started a new thread on one of the tracks I'm working on with this issue here...
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Another-too-much-bass-question-m2870835.aspx#2870835
 
It seems we've gotten a bit away from the Aural Exciter start to this thread. I put no High Freq Exciter on this mix.
 
:-)
 
G

The full article as noted in one of my posts is still not available. You may have to wait another month or so untill the full article is downloadable free. If you can get onto it in the meantime make a copy of it. You will need to sit down with the article and carefully follow the instructions in terms of how to create a Dolby A encoder simulator. It is a bit of a fiddle but it could be worth a look for sure. You need to be very aware of what your rms reference level is within your system in order to set the compressor thresholds correctly.
 
In the article they assume you maybe working at a K-20 dB FS ref level. But if you are working at a higher level than that eg as I do:  K-14 for example you need to add the appropriate shift in level to the compressor threshold settings. The article suggests compressor thresholds of -60dB for a K-20 ref level scenario. For me that would translate into -54 dB instead for my K-14 operating level. At least you would start there, I think there is some fine tuning to do with the compressors anyway.

Thanks, Jeff. I'll keep that in mind.
 
I tend to have RMS -20 pre FX on the master and -14 post FX.