Bass processing for loudness?

[xrylex]

even if your room isnt treated properly you shouldnt yuo beable to "trust" your years expecially if your accustomed to listening to pro tracks on your setup? isnt this part of training your ear? Im not tyring to say your doing anything wrong i jsut think maybe over thinking things a little to much and making the process of mixdown (which is tough enough) even harder on yourself, by not allowing your self to use your monitors as monitors?

if you heard how things sound in this room vs how they sound in headphones you would understand. and to give you some background... i went to a recording school that had some great rooms to work out of.. and i also spent a good chunk of the last year working out of the C room in a solid private studio facility. now im travling a ton, dont have my own place, and working where ever i am... thats like driving a BMW everyday for a 3 years, then having to take public transportation, the bus doesnt quite compare... it blows man.

i trust what i hear in my headphones more than i do mixing inside this reflective reverb chamber frequency masking funhouse.. but i would also like to point out that i am not doing final mixdown at this stage. i will be taking this track into a friends studio and doing the mixdown in a treated room. so this is all pre-mixdown/pre-mastering stage at this point. but even with that said i still want things to be as close as possible to sounding how they should. and this is really a production technique IMO, not part of mixdown. i suppose thats debatable tho.

[Sharmaji]

limit the fuck out of your midrange stuff. if it's already fuzzy and aggresive, it'll only make it moreso. lots of synths leads, etc, you can make essentially be all RMS-- they don't really need ANY transient info.

forget this namby-pampy sissypants compression stuff, set your compressor to stun and limit.

that is all.

[Ldizzy]

^ i didnt have the courage to think about it that way...

Thx

[xrylex]

limit the fuck out of your midrange stuff. if it's already fuzzy and aggresive, it'll only make it moreso. lots of synths leads, etc, you can make essentially be all RMS-- they don't really need ANY transient info.

forget this namby-pampy sissypants compression stuff, set your compressor to stun and limit.

that is all.

BAM!!!!! fuck yes, love this and makes shit tons of sense... thnx x2!

[Trichome]

The only tip I can give you is that you try and fit your bass around your drums, not the other way round.