------------------------ On 5 Oct 2003 at 13:15, Nick Lankester wrote:
> 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!! what you initially described sounds like a compression problem, your beats go louder when the bass drops out, so basically your compressor is pushing the beats down in the mix because the bassline is too loud at least that's what I think that might be going on beefing things up is not going to be the solution, instead I'd turn everything down, and bring the tracks up one by one giving everything room to breathe (as someone else suggested) in fact, it might be a good thing to disable whatever mastering compression you are applying to the whole tune so that you are sure your mix sounds OK before you apply compression to it --- ICQ : 3362938 Y! : n3wjack MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "progress doesn't come from early risers, progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things" --- 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]
