Jazz Kick Drum - How to fix muddiness of a dull kick with too much resonance

Critically acclaimed jazz and prog rock mixing and mastering engineer Mark Wingfield explains how to deal with a dull, resonating kick drum that is creating mud and making the acoustic bass difficult to hear using Sonnox Envolution, Waves Renaissance compressor and Plugin Alliance bx console SSL 4000 G.

Mark has mixed or mastered three Downbeat Magazine Masterpiece Albums of the Year, two JazzWise Best Releases of the Year and three All About Jazz Best Albums of the Year. Jazz albums he has mixed or mastered have received more than 300 rave reviews worldwide. Mark mixes and masters at his UK based Heron Island Studio.

If you are interested in working with Mark on your next album you can contact him here:

heronislandstudio.co.uk