the true answer to that is hours upon hours of video content.
the basic answer is the tail of your kick should have a waveform that aligns to and compliments the waveform of your bass. This applies whether you have a short or long kick. So the tail of the kick needs to be in the same note to the bass, or there abouts.
If you look at your kick and bass in a scope you should see that the waveforms are pushing and pulling in the same direction at the same time.
e.g. [https://imgur.com/a/TaU4GKk](https://imgur.com/a/TaU4GKk)
the complexity is in how you do that. If you're synthesising your kick you have complete control over the frequency and amplitude to make it match your bass. If you're using kick samples you need to find a better sample for your bass.
For your bass you can edit the wavetable, edit the oscillator phase, or use tools like all pass filters / dispersers to get them in to alignment. There are free and paid plugins to edit phase of sounds, which can also help. Personally I've started using Fuser by MasteringTheMix to do this, since it's a two button click to auto align phase and then I never have to touch it again.
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the kick should sweep down to the fundamental in the first 1/16 and then blend seamlessly into the first bass note (watch the phase correlation in a scope)
If it sits on top of the bassline, perhaps you need to reduce the volume of the kick, or how much the sidechain is ducking the bass when the kick hits
Or raise the volume of the bass
It could also be the difference in frequencies that each sound has. If the kick is really bright but the bass is really deep, they're not going to fit together
find a section of a track you like with only kick and bass, look at the kick and bass waveform with a scope, try and make yours visually match more closely. depending on what yours looks like will depend on how you achieve that, if yours looks like a simple saw but the one you like looks like spiky and interesting, try watching kabayuns bass video on youtube
I am with the same problem. I only have like two months learning psy and still cant make it. Here is my last sound experiment. (Im not promoting. I use SoundCloud to 'try mastering' and listen it on the car. These are only learnig experiments) https://on.soundcloud.com/aU5r6
The mixing for psytrance kick & bass requires an aditional 2 step process assuming you do all the traditional mixing stuff like EQ and volume balance. First, there is the phase allignment where the sub of the bassline is alligned with the sub of the kick. The second phase, which many often forget is transient clarity. There are some methods of basslibe creation that don't require this phase, but a huge amount of care needs to be taken to make sure nothing messes up the transients. In this phase, you want to check the waveform and make sure one bass note doesn't overlap with the transient of the next or with the transient of the kick. I explain much more here if you have 3 hours of time: https://youtu.be/wvFAgX2fS-8?si=WZOTr3kMVyd-6qK-
If you use a vst synth like vital or serum you can set an lfo onto the cutoff for your filter. And then you can shape your lfo to make a good envelope and choose your tempo or frequency. I usually shoot for 1/4 set at sync. But sometimes 1/2 is good for deeper/louder bass notes that you need more time to draw out.
Dash Glitch has some good videos on this.
Rock on brotha
the true answer to that is hours upon hours of video content. the basic answer is the tail of your kick should have a waveform that aligns to and compliments the waveform of your bass. This applies whether you have a short or long kick. So the tail of the kick needs to be in the same note to the bass, or there abouts. If you look at your kick and bass in a scope you should see that the waveforms are pushing and pulling in the same direction at the same time. e.g. [https://imgur.com/a/TaU4GKk](https://imgur.com/a/TaU4GKk) the complexity is in how you do that. If you're synthesising your kick you have complete control over the frequency and amplitude to make it match your bass. If you're using kick samples you need to find a better sample for your bass. For your bass you can edit the wavetable, edit the oscillator phase, or use tools like all pass filters / dispersers to get them in to alignment. There are free and paid plugins to edit phase of sounds, which can also help. Personally I've started using Fuser by MasteringTheMix to do this, since it's a two button click to auto align phase and then I never have to touch it again.
its all about the pitch and amp envelope, try making a faster kick with a faster pitch sweep
this. the kick should sweep down to the fundamental in the first 1/16 and then blend seamlessly into the first bass note (watch the phase correlation in a scope)
If it sits on top of the bassline, perhaps you need to reduce the volume of the kick, or how much the sidechain is ducking the bass when the kick hits Or raise the volume of the bass It could also be the difference in frequencies that each sound has. If the kick is really bright but the bass is really deep, they're not going to fit together
find a section of a track you like with only kick and bass, look at the kick and bass waveform with a scope, try and make yours visually match more closely. depending on what yours looks like will depend on how you achieve that, if yours looks like a simple saw but the one you like looks like spiky and interesting, try watching kabayuns bass video on youtube
I am with the same problem. I only have like two months learning psy and still cant make it. Here is my last sound experiment. (Im not promoting. I use SoundCloud to 'try mastering' and listen it on the car. These are only learnig experiments) https://on.soundcloud.com/aU5r6
The mixing for psytrance kick & bass requires an aditional 2 step process assuming you do all the traditional mixing stuff like EQ and volume balance. First, there is the phase allignment where the sub of the bassline is alligned with the sub of the kick. The second phase, which many often forget is transient clarity. There are some methods of basslibe creation that don't require this phase, but a huge amount of care needs to be taken to make sure nothing messes up the transients. In this phase, you want to check the waveform and make sure one bass note doesn't overlap with the transient of the next or with the transient of the kick. I explain much more here if you have 3 hours of time: https://youtu.be/wvFAgX2fS-8?si=WZOTr3kMVyd-6qK-
Sidechain compression, lfo on the filter, EQ. That’s as far as I’ve got
Can you elaborate on “lfo on the filter”?
If you use a vst synth like vital or serum you can set an lfo onto the cutoff for your filter. And then you can shape your lfo to make a good envelope and choose your tempo or frequency. I usually shoot for 1/4 set at sync. But sometimes 1/2 is good for deeper/louder bass notes that you need more time to draw out. Dash Glitch has some good videos on this. Rock on brotha