Using the Bass, mid and top, within the mix.

0:00 Have a mess around with it, okay?

Alright folks, shall I have a hat? Right, in this lesson now what we're going to be doing is we're going to be concentrating a bit more on messing around with the bass, mid and treble while the actual record's playing. A lot of people, what they'll do, they'll just use the bass, mid and treble while they're in the mix but at the end of the day, I mean if you've got a 12 inch on there for let's say 5 minutes After you've done the mix and before you're bringing in the next one, there's no point just sitting there letting it play. Have a fiddle. Have a mess around with it, okay? So the track we're going to be using is Outer Space Funk 3 and the track is entitled Kahitma Orgasm. Trust me to pick this one. Okay, so just watch me moving the low, mid and high and I mean again I'm almost re...

3:24 Speakers, always careful, start

Making this particular song, I'm making it just sound that little bit different, okay? It's almost the equivalent of, you know, you make a beautiful piece of, you know, you make some wonderful food and you just need to add a tiny bit more salt, tiny bit more pepper to take it that one step higher. Okay, so enough of me and let's mess around. Again folks, it's only a mess around but you see what I was basically doing is just messing around with the bass, mid and treble, you know? Tweaking the mid a little bit, the low, bit of the high. Don't forget, when you increase the low, what will happen is the bass speakers will start to work harder. So always be careful because if your amplifiers are on full, there is a possibility, not a chance, not a good chance, but there's a possibility you could start to blow, start to...

Basically, stop your speakers from working because all of a sudden if your amp's on full and you're chucking a load of 100 watts through some speakers and you wang that up all the way to the top, you're going to get a boom. And that could knack your speakers. Always be careful. That's where the ear comes in handy. Be wary about what your speakers can do. Likewise with the mid. The mid quite often will knacker or almost destroy your high frequency speakers if you've got too much and your amplifiers are up too much. Also the high, that is the worst thing in the world for compression drivers. Too much of that and I'll tell you what, you may never hear a treble again and all of these particular frequencies here can ruin drivers and the drivers and speakers...

Thank you for watching. So I hope that's been a bit of a help. Practice and enjoy, take it easy.

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