As always it really depends on the situation… if you’re ducking the bass with the kick, the EQ becomes a little less important since there is only a kick playing on the beats. There’s times though when you may from a creative standpoint want a bass note on the kick though… take a listen to Queen’s ‘Another one bites the dust’. The bass on the kick is central to the whole groove, and in this case you want to make sure they sit cohesively together in the mix through something like EQ as I mentioned. Obviously side chaining wouldn’t work here as you’d loose the bass note.
Yeah That’s exactly what i meant with the question! Thank you. Keep this kinda tutorials coming!
amazing tutorial been looking for something like this for a while now
Kudos Protoculture. Fantastic course. That’s a lot of really helpful information including techniques I can apply to a track I’m working on now to fix some problems I’ve been having with it. Thanks!
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Great tutorial, thanks Sonic Academy & Protoculture!
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Thanks very much for this Nate have all your tutorials and the information is top notch
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Thank for for this tutorial, all these EQ techniques are really helpful, cheers!!
Great aproach by now. For me, thats the most difficult info to master at mixing and mastering.
Very very good course/tutorial. A lot of good info’s i never heard about before. Thank you.
Nice
Excellent. Thank you!!
thanks
Thanks for another great course, Nate! As usually from Protoculture, quite effective, balanced and (which is quite important for me) sort of theory-based techniques and suggestions. I’ve already created a couple of checklists for myself e.g. for mastering process using some of your previous courses, and they already proved to work for me. I’ve also checked out some other mixing courses, not here from Sonic Academy, and it’s quite pleasant to feel something like “That’s what Protoculture already taught me” 
Many thanks!
Very knowledgeable guy, who has been around for years! So he knows a few things about producing
Wow, this is great. Lots of valuable insight here. Thanks Nate. The pink noise reference tip in #20 is new to me, so practical!
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Nate, thank you so much for doing this. This is honestly one of the best collection of tips and tricks i’ve come across vis-a-vis low end “management”. I absolutely commend your dogma of understanding the concepts from the audio engineering perspective as it builds a solid foundation and sort of gives you a logical thought process not only in implementing best practices but also in bolstering your thoughts when you want to break convention. I’ve been your fan since my college days and its quite surreal to be here learning from you. Please keep sharing and teaching. I must implore you to give Neutron a spin - quite a few things you spoke about especially EQing (inverse eq) is all right there and it is super intuitive. The ability to use any frequency band to side chain another frequency band is just epic. I’m sure in your hands it’ll be like witchcraft! Cheers!
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Great instructions!
Most useful tutorial so far
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This video series has so much useful tips in it. That tip you showed on how to get a kick 2 setting, so closely matching other famous kicks, is game changing. I can’t tell you how helpful this video course has been, I might just have to buy it. I highly recommend doing the same. Especially if you’re not a member all the time, these videos are a great resource to have handy. Thank you.
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I have demo’d neutron… I think its great software but I’ll be honest, I’ve never been a huge fan of Izotopes interfaces. The plugins were a little on the heavy side (system resource wise) as opposed to a lot of the Plugin Alliance stuff I use currently. Pro-Q3 has some great new features that seem to have been inspired by Neutron, so haven’t really felt the need to pick Neutron up for myself.