Mixing Bass Guitar | Fat Bottomed Tips by Joe Barresi

Very Nice!

Is this the dude from Even Stevens? Beans?

J Breezy, thanx man !

this is amazing and exzachary what i needed

hey, I have no idea what youre saying im new to recording but im sure if I hear these words and continue to do some research on how to record my bass im sure ill eventually figure it out lol thanks for the info.

Excellent explanation and really good advice coming from a pro.

Cheers!

thank you Joe great examples great sound that low air

Some slight dirt on the bass is almost always great sounding in my experience. With my one band that tried recording a demo in our drummer's basement I would split my signal to a DI and a Big Muff and run the thru output on the DI box to my amp. I'd use the Big Muff pretty heavily in choruses, which fit our style, and in quieter sections I'd only use the fuzz as a very very subtle color with my DI and amp sound.

Love this video. I just finished a song and needed to pull the bass out a little bit to make more clear and adding a distorted track on it really brought out the picking with the original track still making me able to feel it. Great idea and an easy fix

Thought it said fat ass lol

What if you double tracked the bass guitar, have one track clean, the other distorted and blend them together?

Can you dup 3 di tracks with 3 different amp sims and blend? Do you eq and compress after the amp sim? Thx!

Are 4 bass tracks really necessary? Seems like total overkill.

awesome

Thanks for the great tips

Awsome info!!!!

What is a DI

Cool!!

Great demo! Very informative and concise! Thanks.

In a normal time world One could have one microphone and a screen to record live to have all the possibilities of sound available. Technology would know how you want it to sound and mix perfectly.

ıt has a corelation between di and bass amp .di interferes the bass amp .(phase cancellation )If you change the phase of di you can achieve fat and clear bass guitar sound.

Mixing bass with what? I only heard a bass line and processing on the track...

ZICO CHAIN.

This Lexicon 480 on Joe’s console looks like calculator on accountant’s desk! ;)

Great video man. I play in local bands and have recorded with a bunch of different producers that are pretty much guitarists moonlighting as engineers. They throw me on 1 DI track with a god awful EQ and too much distortion. I'll sound fine when I'm playing along with the guitars on the E string, but the moment I move out of that range, everything goes completely south. It completely discourages me from writing any fills or intricate basslines. Good to see this video though from a person who very much knows what they're doing. At least 2 tracks will definitely be my standard going forward or nobody's getting paid :)

Well, he talks about a "super fat mix" but I found the mix to be pretty weak and absolutely not "fat" - and I listen with studio head phones! Listen to John Mayer records and you know what a real fat bass mix is.

It's just a phase...

Thanks for this, Joe. Really great stuff.

really well explained Thanks so much Joe !

This guy is not only amazing at what he does he is AWESOME at explaining it

Wish I had access to a guy like him to help me out... having to do everything by myself is really hard. Writing music is one thing but mixing and turning it into something coherent is a totally different ball game.

Joe is the man. I could listen to this guy talk all day.

what DI is being used?!

Hi Joe , i want to practice some itunes songs imported to pro tools , how i eliminate the bass to practice the song ? thanks

thank you Dad

is the di---> amp---> output applicable in a live situation. Will it work?

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I love his voice, so ASMR lol

I've watched guitar examples and this, and what I noticed is he never takes volume increase into account once he starts changing something. I don't know, maybe it's only for video but it's hard to judge the real result without matching volume.

And the final result? He will use only one take with the saturation 😂

For years I wondered why Pro Tools sessions in tutorials have so many tracks. Different takes? No, that's what Playlists are for. Layering multiple performances? Not usually. Apparently they're just running the exact same track through 4 different effects chains! Not my preference, but whatever floats your boat.

Love those psycho acoustic effects. Thanks for the great tips Joe.

Wow yeahhhaaaaaahhaaa!!

Phase switch? He must mean polarity switch to find out if its out of phase.

Dammit, just bought LoAir because of this, which of course was their intention.. I've no-one to blame but myself..haha.. Great tut/video BTW..

Awesome! thanks man. think I have been in a rut just using my tube pre then post side into a multi band then into a comp. oddly almost always find myslelf reducing low end? maybe its the old sylvania tube doing its job. cant wait to try some reamping! thanks for vid

He reminds me Hank from Breaking Bad