[LAU] Filter arrangement - was- Bitwig: what we can learn from it

[Len Ovens]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2014, Fons Adriaensen wrote:

> Parallel arrangements have their place, e.g. for multiband
> compressors used for mastering. Regarding these you should
> be aware that such processing makes nonsense of whatever
> careful EQ you have done before. Multiband compression
> amounts an EQ that is changing all the time, and you usually
> have no idea of what exactly it is doing. If the mixing and
> mastering are done by the same person (as they usually are
> in our context), everything done in mastering could have
> been done better during the mix, e.g. by compressing tracks
> instead of the mix.

I have found this out from experience (already)... It didn't take very 
long  :)  The good thing is that the project I wrecked with overall 
changes has enough other defects in it to make it worth while redoing from 
scratch. I am looking forward to trying out Ardour 3 to do drum tracks 
from pads (my only choice right now). While I have been playing for a long 
time, my experience in recording is very recent. The cure is practice. I 
was quite a fan of midi when all I had was a few tracks of audio (I 
started on 4 and 8 track) and putting TC on one track allowed me to add 
lots of other tracks with a sequencer. It was fun, but I was just playing 
around. I am more serious now, if not truely professional.


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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net