Plugin to bring up bass guitar in old mixdown track?

[zxzxzxzx]

I came across a song from a project I mixed down about 10 or 12 years ago. I no longer have access to the multi-track project.

I never considered it a completed song until I was able to listen to it objectively years later. I trimmed it down a bit removing a long intro and fixed a weak sounding opening on the guitar solo and I'm satisfied with what I got but the bass is way too low in the mix.

Is there a plugin that can surgically boost the bass guitar level without disturbing anything else?

[Lynx_TWO]

iZotope has a bass module in Ozone that can do some impressive things based on machine learning. Also check out the plugin BassRoom if your just looking for an eq designed to get your low end right. You also try an EQ such as Fabfilter’s Q 3, in dynamic mode and Natural Phase

[martifingers]

This may be of use too?

ISOL8 by TB Pro Audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1acEnIS8Rk

[zxzxzxzx]

Thanks.

[beingmf]

Izotope RX7 does work somehow (I tried the demo on a crackly low-fi 60's recording, and the results weren't half bad), and then there's the open-source solution https://github.com/deezer/spleeter (which I haven't tried yet).

Unfortunately I forgot the name of a Reaper scripting project which is intended to do exactly that as well, but it was too nerdy command-line-ish for me, so I never installed it. But maybe you do and let us know how it came out?

[Stoker]

Originally Posted by beingmf

Izotope RX7 does work somehow (I tried the demo on a crackly low-fi 60's recording, and the results weren't half bad), and then there's the open-source solution https://github.com/deezer/spleeter (which I haven't tried yet).

I've been using a version of Spleeter wrapped up in an easy to use GUI (Windows only I think). I mosly use it to extract bass lines where I can't quite hear what the bass player is doing in the complete mix to help with transcription. However I did a little experiment with an old Blondie track where I extracted the bass and then mixed that back in at a higher level with the original track and it worked really well.

https://makenweb.com/SpleeterGUI

The quality of the results can vary bit but it can be a very useful tool.

Here's an example, about half way through I mix in the extracted bass: Blondie

--Ian