Mixing tutorial for the DJ, Mixing the bass line.

0:00 This is probably 5 to 6 because we're getting slightly more intricate

Alright folks, now then in this video what we're going to be doing is looking at beatmatching, beatmixing, but more importantly we're going to be concentrating now on the bassline. Now this particular video is from a scale of 1 to 10, I suppose 1 or 0 being the easiest form of tutorials and 10 being the most difficult. This is probably 5 to 6 because we're getting slightly more intricate here. What we're going to be doing is we're going to be mixing in a bassline from one song We're going to be taking away the bass line from this guy over here and putting them both together as he knocks the camera. So theoretically what we should have is almost an entire song, but if you look at bass, mid and treble on both of these, okay? Now we have bass, mid, treble on this side, bass, mid, treble on the other side. What I'm going to be doing, I'm going to be taking away for a lot of the time the mid and the top.

On this side, so we're left with just the bass or bass line. And then the opposite on this side, I'm going to be leaving the mid and top, but I'm going to be taking away the bass. Now first of all, I'm going to play you this track here. Have a listen. Let's wang it forward a little bit. And I'll plug it in, the audio into the camera so you get better sound as well. So if we go a bit forward again, hold on. Listen, the bass line.

1:34 You can just about hear the bassline, alright?

You can just about hear the bassline, alright? Then what we're going to be doing, there it is. But it's more... That's the bassline. Right, what we're going to do, we're going to knock it into this track here. Right, let's just forward it. Take the bassline away from here. That's all we're left with. Okay? Forward a bit more. Bassline away. And we're left with that. In a video I did just before this one, I showed you, the beginners, how to learn... What I seek to beatmatch, how to mix, a good way of practicing it and that is just mixing using the beats. But then if you want to start let's say mixing halfway through a song this is where it gets a bit more difficult because then you've got a lot more to think about. You've not only got the beat

But you've got the bass line, melody, vocals, all that sort of stuff. And if you start getting lots of clashes then it sounds awful, right? So what I'm going to do now, I'm going to plug this in here and I'm going to have a bit of a mess around. I'm going to pan the camera closer to the mixer so hopefully you can see what I'm doing. I do apologise if the beats go off a little bit. I'm not going to have headphones on. I'm going to mess around just a tad, alright? So we'll plug it in and let's see what happens. Let's say you're halfway through a particular song and you can hear the... The bass line is not dissimilar to the other bass line. Then you can mess around with the bass, alright? Now logically again, if you're talking about melody, you can mess around with the melody. The highs, you know, you could always mess around with those anyway. It doesn't really matter so much about the highs but the main integral parts of your bass, mid and treble is the bass and the mid because the bass will only really work on the beat and the bass line.

The mid will only work on the mid, as in the vocals, the guitar, all the instruments. So again, like I said, slightly more intricate here. If you want to start mixing one record into the other halfway through, you must remember, very important, melody, the bassline plays a very, very big part in this. Hope it's been a help. Another tutorial for you. Practice and enjoy.

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