| Author
|
your thoughts on this way of mixing?
|
Conny
IsraTrance Senior Member
Started Topics :
224
Posts :
149
Posted : Feb 4, 2015 20:20:04
|
Lately ive turned down the levels
on all With a compressor on all
Instruments and adjusted the levels
With the faders.
previously ive experieced to hot
Signals.Whats your thoughts about this topic?
|
|
|
knocz
Moderator
Started Topics :
40
Posts :
1151
Posted : Feb 4, 2015 21:10
|
Many say that's the way to go.. but a hot signal can also be just what you might want (particularly with analogue gear).
Later on you can then boost the signal: If it's all digital all the way, then it wont matter. If it analogue all the way, recording too low on cheap gear will bring out all the "cheapness" of the equipment, and too hot makes it make it distort (or clip or saturate or do strange weird accidents..) - which can be great. It's up to you to take that into attention while mixing.
Also, you'll have a little less maneuver if you simply turn down all the faders - like zooming out, you'll have less detail and accuracy. But, unless you're doing something really acoustic and absolutely need a ton of headroom (between the quietest and the loudest parts of the mix), this should be irrelevant. Unless you turn it so low you only have a few millimeters between silence and your "limit".
In the end, it's the relativeness that maters (Einstein had a point..) - the ratio difference between the signals - and at the end you can boost it to your standards, and each component of your mix will be boosted accordingly, and relative values remain the same.
But other guys swear on mixing into a limiter / compressor, which ends up driving the mix (it sets the upper limit and when pumpiness starts.. but a dynamic mix can be hard to tackle with this).. and you either need to hit the master with some strength, or turn down the compressor to reflect your "low volume standard".
IMO I prefer to keep it all always under 0db, but I tend to mix with the main between -20 and -10db. So I see little green bars jump all around, have room for faders, but still have a solid standard on where the volumes should never be - even if I want it hot, I'd place that in the effects chain, and have the resulting output signal "controlled" to this -20 to -10.
I sometimes use a limiter and boost the signal, but this is mainly on the last stages. If I need more volume, the speakers can give me that 
 Super Banana Sauce http://www.soundcloud.com/knocz |
|
|
|
wirakocha
IsraTrance Full Member
Started Topics :
112
Posts :
288
Posted : Feb 5, 2015 21:21
|
|
frisbeehead
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
10
Posts :
1352
Posted : Feb 6, 2015 14:32
|
|
^if you can set the kick to any volume you like, why do you feel like you have to control it's volume? |
|
|
|
|
