The work sounds delicious my good man you're well on your way to winning the Troll Toll.
Ben gave me some great tips for raising levels and I've augmented them a bit. Alright, start with EQing each individual tracking it doesn't require too much just a little high pass for your high ends and some low pass on everything bass. Furthermore, you may want to do some fine tuning on the EQ if necessary: drop everything below 20hz on the lows to keep the low freq hum and feedback from manifesting itself throughout the mix. Next, begin compressing individual tracks. Compress (lower threshold) lightly on your dynamic sounds and moderately on filling sounds (pads, drums, etc). I recommend using the Massey L2 Compressor/limiter for mono tracks. You can pick them up at http://www.masseyplugins.com/?page=l2007
Bus all your channels into a master channel and compress at a threshold of around -3db to -6db. I recommend the Massey L2007 Master Compressor/Limiter it's received great reviews and I think it sounds pretty damn good as well as a super simplistic interface. Lastly, add a little dither to clear things up a bit. All this should send you on your way toward boosting the final levels and getting some great tone out of your music Mr. Tony. One more piece of advice: built in synths and sampled sounds (like in Reason) don't necessarily need to be compressed too much but can produce some really crunchy awesomeness, i.e. Justice really crunches some of their stuff to get that raw-distorted sound. If you really want to take the time to get some really good levels and tone, you could run a two bus system where in you run a compressor in one bus and run the various desired tracks into it then send it back into the main mix.
By the way, I win for longest comment posted on the blog thus far.
Oh yea, if you didn't get the levels you want out of an outboard instrument remember to normalize the recording but be careful of clipping later in the recording. For example if you recorded for 36 bars and the first 12 are too soft but the rest is perfect, divide the low volume and normalize then send to a separate track for mixing purposes. ProTools has a great normalizing algorithm built into its AudioSuite that prevents clipping and limits volume to 0db, but can be a problem when mixing. Again this is where splitting your recordings is helpful. It's always easier to mix down than mixing up. Don't say stage freeze just do it.
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The work sounds delicious my good man you're well on your way to winning the Troll Toll.
Ben gave me some great tips for raising levels and I've augmented them a bit. Alright, start with EQing each individual tracking it doesn't require too much just a little high pass for your high ends and some low pass on everything bass. Furthermore, you may want to do some fine tuning on the EQ if necessary: drop everything below 20hz on the lows to keep the low freq hum and feedback from manifesting itself throughout the mix.
Next, begin compressing individual tracks. Compress (lower threshold) lightly on your dynamic sounds and moderately on filling sounds (pads, drums, etc). I recommend using the Massey L2 Compressor/limiter for mono tracks. You can pick them up at http://www.masseyplugins.com/?page=l2007
Bus all your channels into a master channel and compress at a threshold of around -3db to -6db. I recommend the Massey L2007 Master Compressor/Limiter it's received great reviews and I think it sounds pretty damn good as well as a super simplistic interface.
Lastly, add a little dither to clear things up a bit.
All this should send you on your way toward boosting the final levels and getting some great tone out of your music Mr. Tony. One more piece of advice: built in synths and sampled sounds (like in Reason) don't necessarily need to be compressed too much but can produce some really crunchy awesomeness, i.e. Justice really crunches some of their stuff to get that raw-distorted sound.
If you really want to take the time to get some really good levels and tone, you could run a two bus system where in you run a compressor in one bus and run the various desired tracks into it then send it back into the main mix.
By the way, I win for longest comment posted on the blog thus far.
Oh yea, if you didn't get the levels you want out of an outboard instrument remember to normalize the recording but be careful of clipping later in the recording. For example if you recorded for 36 bars and the first 12 are too soft but the rest is perfect, divide the low volume and normalize then send to a separate track for mixing purposes. ProTools has a great normalizing algorithm built into its AudioSuite that prevents clipping and limits volume to 0db, but can be a problem when mixing. Again this is where splitting your recordings is helpful. It's always easier to mix down than mixing up. Don't say stage freeze just do it.
youre either slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot.
nice work homie.
You, sir, seem to have the Midas touch.
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