Guys, I know without seeing the actual session, this may be a little hard for you all to say, and I am! in the process of uploading the session to Dropbox. As soon as it's up there, I'll shoot yall over the link, so you can have a look.
Basically, here's the problem. I've recorded all of my instruments, and they all are coming in at a very very acceptable level. No clipping from what I can tell from my meters on each track. I also recorded my vocals. On my vocals, I did! add just a tiny bit of compression with the BS76 plug. I also used a send to send that vocal track out to an auxiliary track, which I've added my reverb effects to. This way I can adjust the wet dry mix ratio more smoothely. Finally, I added a stereo master fader, and was able to bump the level up to the point where now, without putting a compressor nor any inserts whatsoever on the master fader, I was able to ride the output fader of that track up just a tad, and get it where now, the meter on the master fader is peeking at the absolute highest being -1DB. This is obviously acceptable, as from what I hear, you don't want your master to go above 0DB, as that's when you'll start getting clipping. I hear you want however to run it as close to 0 as you can though, without going over. This is the highest I could get it. Any higher, and it started showing clipped on the meter. Audibly, I'm not hearing the clipping, but anyway, it's there apparently. So, I backed it off to where -1DB it is. LOL! Anyway, the problem is that the level over all is still really low. I'm scared though that if I try raising this with a compressor, for one, it's gonna get way too punchy/squashed sounding, and for 2, more paranoid side, I'm scared it's gonna exceed that -1DB and start clipping. Would the ideal thing be, to lower all my other tracks just a bit, that way on the master, the compressor could? raise back to the -1 level, or is there a better way of doing this? Right now, I got it where it isn't clipping apparently. Although, I'm a little concerned about the lead vocal. It seems to be peeking on some of my higher notes around -5DB. That's a little high. I'd honestly like it around -12 to -10, but it doesn't honestly sound that bad. Maybe a little muddy, but that's probably just me not totally knowing the best way to work with e q. I really need to work more on learning how to do that, I admit. Anyway, I'm uploading the session now, just in case. Would any of you guys be willing to take a quick lookat it, and see if you can figure out what might be going on, or give me a few small pointers, based on when you see how I set things? If so, let me know, and I'll get you guys the link. Chris. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
