No. 3 is a great tip. It should've been me who suggested itLike some have suggested earlier, I would think of this as something similar to making a kick more prominent:
1. Use the low end drum as an input to side-chain compress other low end elements. If you have a multiband compressor or Dynamic Equalizer, you could choose to side-chain compress the low end of these instruments only, versus full band.
2. Give the low end elements some top end to cut through the mix.
3. Take out really low frequencies (say 30 Hz or so) with a HP filter, on all bass(y) instruments. Adjust the slope to taste.
Could you clarify this? Are you saying that something like a short burst of sound is a lot cleaner and consistent to send into the side-chain vs a trailer hit? For example, the actually transient of the hit only happens for a short period of time and so you can adjust your noise or whatever accordingly?ut here's the catch: if you plunk the percussion out directly as the sidechain signal, you're going to get a reaction to the overall volume, which will undoubtedly mess up the overall compressor response.
Could you clarify this? Are you saying that something like a short burst of sound is a lot cleaner and consistent to send into the side-chain vs a trailer hit? For example, the actually transient of the hit only happens for a short period of time and so you can adjust your noise or whatever accordingly?