Split-band processing in Live

The idea here is to take a sound with a fairly wide frequency range and process the frequency bands separately and accordingly.

Let’s take as an example a fat Reese bass. Since it is a bass sound, it is obviously heavy in low frequencies, but these basses are also really rich in the mid-range.

You might also want this bass to sound super huge and spacey, but we know that we can’t really have a bass stereo, nor have reverb on it; otherwise, it will muddy up our entire mix.

Well, this is where splitting this bass into two by frequency ranges and processing them differently can get you that big fat spacey sound that you are looking for without mudding up your mix.

Let me show you how it is done in Live using Audio Effect Rack. You can use the Chapter 16 project file to follow along:

1. Create or pick the bass sound you desire in Live. (In the Chapter 16 project, we are working with the track called Reese Split Bass.)
2. Drop...