Posts Tagged ‘ Mix-bus ’
Don’t dismiss this post yet! Even if you’re in the ‘more dynamics’ brigade, these tips will give you clearer mixes that suffer less in mastering. That means better-preserved dynamics and higher fidelity! For those of you who really do want your mixs SUPER LOUD, this tips will let you push more volume without your sound [ READ MORE ]
Compressors are complex tools and, like most other audio engineering tools, there are more ways to set them up ‘wrong’ than there are to set them up ‘right’. If you’re careful though, you won’t fall into these common traps: Too much gain reduction. You know you’ve done this when you’ve got tons on gain reduction [ READ MORE ]
There’s a case to be made for ‘sweetening’ your mix bus. Many mixes can benefit from some subtle processing to bring out the best qualities of the tone of the mix and to use dynamics to give the mix a more compact, controlled sound. To bring out the best qualities of the tone of the [ READ MORE ]
Under most normal circumstances, using reverb on the mix bus is no different to using a send on every track, with every send set to the same level. Usually this it not a good idea – it’s better touse sends to apply reverb in different levels to different tracks. Some sounds can ‘take’ more reverb [ READ MORE ]
It’s a murky world, this mastering. Mastering is a process by which a mixdown is prepared for distribution. Traditionally, this has been performed by a dedicated mastering engineer with specific skills and equipment. The esoteric skills and expensive equipment gave the mastering engineer a sort of mythical status. No-one outside the mastering studio really knew [ READ MORE ]
The reason the commercial references are so loud is that they have very little headroom – the average level is so high that there’s not much room for the peaks (which have been squashed down). When mixing, however, you shouldn’t worry about headroom on the mix bus. You need to give yourself enough headroom that [ READ MORE ]
Multiband compression is a complex and subtle tool. Compression itself is one of the most complex single processes commonly applied in mixing. Multiband compression multiplies that complexity because it applies several compressors in parallel, each processing a different frequency range of the audio. Because of the way the audio is split by frequency, multiband compression [ READ MORE ]
As I’ve written previously, there are compelling reasons for and against using processing on the mix bus. What I recommend against, however, is using static EQ on the mix bus. The reason for this is that pure EQ (discounting EQ with added saturation) has the same effect regardless of whether it is processing single tracks [ READ MORE ]
Mixing with 2-bus processing – for As you already mentioned, mixing with bus processing allows you to work towards your “final sound” in one go. This is particularly useful when 2-bus processing is used for more than mastering (preparing a mix for a distribution format/medium). The best-known example is pumping compression. It’s not so easy [ READ MORE ]
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