At the moment I run a Waves L2 on the master but I tend to leave it set at zero, just to protect the monitor speakers.. The volume reduction is kept below -5 at all times... maybe that's still too high though..
The main problem I have is getting the bass and drums loud enough without everything getting squashed and losing the drums... Would it be fair to say there's an order to applying compression etc? Start with the loudest track first? Doh!, I can't actually find the track that was causing me this problem (I'm working on about 9 tracks at once at the moment!!), but here's a snippit of the one I'm on at the moment... Do the drums and the bass sound levelled properly? I think there's some compression on the drums but possibly not on the bass.. There's very little EQ, I think: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/lankester_01/bin/INNOVATION%20snippit.mp3 Hmm... I suppose it just depends on how much you want to beef up ALL the tracks? The more you beef them up, the more you are going to have to EQ?? Is that right? Generally? Thanks, any help is good help as far as I'm concerned!! Nick -----Original Message----- From: Andy Abang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 October 2003 03:21 To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List Subject: [dnb-prod] RE: setting maximum levels in a track.. i'd say just turn down the bass and/or isolate the frequencies of the drums a bit more. if you're using straight breaks, eq a fair notch out of the midrange of each break or any other elements you're using to sort of cut a swatch for your bass to fit into. if you've layered any individual drum hits over the break, make sure you've eq'ed those properly as well. don't completely cut any frequency ranges if you don't need to, you probably don't want to make severe adjustments as that would alter the tone of your sounds. also, are you running any maximizing plugins on your master output? if you are, and you have that cranked, it's going to affect the quiet parts of your mix a lot. let your waveforms breathe, just lower the volume of everything so you have some headroom. you don't want to push it too hard. also, maybe you've got frequencies in your bass sounds that you don't want in there. i don't know if that's stuff you already know, so i'm sorry if i'm just giving obvious advice! good luck :) ~andy -----Original Message----- From: Nick Lankester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 10:23 AM To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List Subject: [dnb-prod] setting maximum levels in a track.. Well, it's raining outside and I've had the flu for over a week. L but.. luckily that makes for perfect beat making conditions as far as I'm concerned! So, I was wondering, if you have a bass part/track which sounds good when all the song parts/instruments are playing but that is so heavy that the drums shoot up in volume when the bass part is muted. what do you do?? Should you just lower the necessary parts' volumes at any point that the bass isn't playing? Or is it better to compress and level the track so that everything fits naturally? (I mean, without automating the part's levels to compensate for loud parts..) Does that all make sense? Anyone got any advice? Cheers.. Nick --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
