Message 12/16
Date: 25-Sep-07 @ 12:25 PM -
RE: how loud?
I'll have to check out elephant never heard of it, and vw2 ill go and find em, the multiband
compressor if iam honest is the one that 9 times out of 10 ruins the track, which is probably
inexpierience on my part coz if all it does id make it louder then sitck to limiting, but if you can
use it to keep bass ends thick and defined you can sink them into the mix and make them
smaller but still solid, so then you got some more room to adjust mid and high bands(by the way
start with only 3 bands coz thats hard enough to judge, more than that and you are running
before walking) now u can squeeze the mid and maybe reduce the highs, careful on the
compression coz sometimes it causes harshness, do all of this gentley and keep the master out
below overload, in fact leave some headroom , and if you got it right you might! have a smaller
detailed solid mix, that then will take some nice limiting/psp ect.
However as some of the masters of mastering say you need to to then make an equal volume
comparison ie the original track at 0dbs and the mastered track at 0dbs and if the mastered
version sounds better in several ways ,depth thickness,warmth and definition then cool but if it is
nothing but louder then you failed and u might as well have just limited it to the wall.
Malk
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