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>> I'm never really happy with the way my bass tracks and >> drums lay in my recordings-compared to the pro recordings. I'm not a >> slouch and have pretty good ears and experience, yet it is still a >> mystery. It is impossible to carry out a recording if drums and bass both carry prominent sound in the same frequency band. A key technique in producing recordings is to filter out enough of an instrument's sound that otherwise would collide with sound made by another instrument at the same time. Another common technique is side-chaining. Usually this is used to duck the bass channel by the signal of the kick drum channel, resulting in the the level of the bass going down just a little bit whenever the kick hits. Think of this as "creating a pocket in the bass sound for the kick drum to fit in". This is heard on many disco songs and also useful in funk. Devices and plug-ins that can be used for side-chaning are noise gates and compressors. By poly rhythmic musical arrangement (as in modern dance music, reggae and traditional Brazilian music etc) this "clashing of low frequencies" can be avoided without the need for filtering or side chaining, as mentioned above. Generally think about the complete music as "layers of sound", each instrument representing a unique layer. If they sound at the same time they have to occupy different bands of the frequency spectrum. Traditional music on folk instruments tend to use instruments that naturally complement each other well. This is also true to the symphonic orchestra. Rock music, however, has a tradition of layering sound to create a "dense mass effect". The point is not only to make every instrument come through, as in dance and brazilian, but to create a greater summed impact "in sound" and not only "in music". My personal view is that it's not all bad with clashing frequencies in music. A lot of the music I like actually draws on overtone phenomena that occur when related sounds collide. But speaking about the bass frequencies in particular, as in this thread, there isn't really much headroom for "ghost notes" to appear. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international)