Making Bass Sound Better on Phones with Taylor Franklyn

So you've produced an epic track with an awesome sub or 808 bassline, and it's release day. People go online and hit play - but it's on their phones with a speaker the size of a fingernail. Zero bass.

In this handy Tech Tip, we welcome back Taylor Franklyn with some super useful tips on making your lows more audible on smaller speakers or low-end headphones.

Starting with a tip on mono compatibility, we move on to processing our basslines with saturation to increase harmonics, creating more headroom, and some mixing techniques - duplicating and raising the pitch while using EQ to keep the channel in the lower frequencies.

Check it out and claim back your basslines!