Trying to get that fat, punchy bass guitar sound in your mix? Stuck with a somewhat lifeless DI bass track? Have no fear, today’s video will give you three fast and easy tweaks you can make to turn your lack luster bass track in to a fat beast of a track. Unless of course you’re not into that kind of stuff thing. Just ignore this advice and your bass tracks will sound plenty thin and wimpy.
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My name is Graham Cochrane and I'm the founder of The Recording Revolution, one of the world's most loved audio recording and mixing blogs with over 200,000 readers each month. 
cool video! There’s some serious fatness and punch in those drums as well!
well ,first of all u r trying to make every track of the song as best as u can , and polish it and make it sound better .. then u start mixing as u EQ every track to take its place on the mix .. is that right ?
in arabic songs if u have ever heard one of them … when u hear a classical guitar solo u will feel like its so attached with the background harmony , they are acting like if they were “one thing” , idk how to explaing it plz hear the intro : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvjNuTMR6g0
can u plzzz explain what’s going on ? i mean how he mixed it ? it doesn’t sound like pop songs like maroon 5 and taylor swift … i think it was mixed with a different approach ? need ur reply badly .. thank u very much Graham .. without ur help and videos i wouldn’t have been able to understand music 🙂
“Guitarist” – cool song. No idea what he’s saying, but it sounds great.
Sounds like a wide stereo mix (if not full LCR as Graham describes elsewhere). The lead vocal, 2 lead guitar/string instruments, bass, drums, and organ are up the middle. The backup guitars and vocals are wide L/R.
The organ works well as a “pad” sitting over the bass and adding glue in the middle for the vocal and guitar. The second guitar(?) (higher register trills) up the middle sounds “wetter” (more room tone, back further in the mix even though the higher pitch cuts more) particularly at 2min 38sec, which adds some interest between these 2 instruments. And there’s a good bit of reverb – some on guitars, a noticeable amount on the main vocal, and even more on the backup vocals. Choosing either one “just right” or a few “complementary” reverbs to make them all play nicely is definitely an art.
My ears aren’t good enough to tell which reverb, compressor, etc. they used. But I don’t actually think how it’s mixed is as different as you think from what Graham does.
If you want to compare/contrast with another genre, instead of Pop/Rock music, maybe look at Gypsy Kings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaBElFl7QCI
I don’t speak Spanish – just like their music. They don’t use an organ/pad, but have both lead (center) and backup (wide L/R) vocals and guitars. They add some latin percussion and clapping far L/R in their mix as well.
Always fun to hear the stuff other folks are enjoying.
idk how to thank , but i really enjoyed reading ur reply , even i have had read it 3 times … u got me when i was talking about the genre , i feel like arabic songs kinds are not the same like the english ones , i mean hear this : http://youtu.be/fDln9Fyx7WA … the arranger is the same of the last one .. it sounds “full” .. idk how to explain it but there are many instruments and there’s no interruption for any of them …
omg music is really hard :S
Thanks Graham. The key lesson I was reminded of was “subtlety”. Lately, I have been tweaking things way more than you did here, mostly out of being frustrated with not hearing much result. It would probably be wise for me to reign in some of my knob turning.
Here are some other tips for creating a fat bass sound- http://en.audiofanzine.com/bass/editorial/articles/How-to-get-a-fat-bass-sound.html