In Neutron, you can achieve this by activating Dynamic Mode on a bass EQ node, selecting “Ext. Since the kick is such a short sound, this change is imperceptible to listeners, allowing both low-end elements to come through without any compromise and saving you lots of time with trial and error. This way, you can still send the kick drum as a sidechain trigger, but have it duck just the masking bass frequencies and nothing else. A dynamic EQ allows you to set a curve that reacts only to changes within a specified frequency range. I think a more transparent solution is to use a dynamic EQ like the one in Neutron. So you try again with a sidechain compressor that ducks the bass whenever the kick lands, but this reduces the entire bass signal and produces an obvious pumping effect you don’t want.
To troubleshoot, you turn up the kick for more power, but this doesn’t help, since you have to bring up the bass to compete, only making the problem louder. These two sounds share similar frequencies, so the bass is masking the crack of the kick and forcing it out of the mix. Here’s a common scenario: you’re mixing and every time the kick and bass parts coincide, your monitors get overloaded with low-end content and the kick seems to disappear. Today we focus on a specific use of dynamic EQ-in combination with a sidechain trigger. We’ve already covered the basics of dynamic EQ, including how and when to use it in both mixing and mastering contexts.
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