To troubleshoot, you turn up the kick for more power, but this doesn’t help, since you have to bring up the bass to compete, only making the problem louder. These two sounds share similar frequencies, so the bass is masking the crack of the kick and forcing it out of the mix. Here’s a common scenario: you’re mixing and every time the kick and bass parts coincide, your monitors get overloaded with low-end content and the kick seems to disappear.

Today we focus on a specific use of dynamic EQ-in combination with a sidechain trigger. We’ve already covered the basics of dynamic EQ, including how and when to use it in both mixing and mastering contexts.