8 May
2009
8 May
'09
8:35 p.m.
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:12:54AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
James,
Welcome and best of luck with what you're doing. IMO his is
completely the right place to ask questions like this.
Thanks Mark!
2) Learn to use busses and in general limit yourself
to a single
reverb. Try to leave a LOT of headroom in your indivdual track
recordings as it will reduce the number of limiter and compressors you
find yourself using overall. Using multiple reverbs will eventually
lead to a muddy sound as every instrument starts acting like it's in a
different room. Busses are easy in Ardour, albiet FAR more capable
than they really should be. That said, you need them and once you
learn to use them for things like reverb you'll probably be better
off.
I had a quick mess around with a bus with TAP reverb, and only 1
reverb.. It gave the track a more "live" sound to my ears - more
real maybe, but lacking some of the dynamics of a studio
recording.. any idea where I am going wrong?
How about compression? Is it OK to run 2 compressors in parallel
like the C* and Satan Maximizer, or is it just a waste of
resources?
way you want your mix to sound. You don't say much
about music style,
which is cool, but I suggest that one answer doesn't fit Animal
Collective, Particle, McCoy Tyner and John Mayall, all being bands
I've listened to in depth this week. Maybe you're doing something
non-pop/rock and some sort of strange reverb setup makes it work. If
that's the case then by all means do WHATEVER works!
Well, our first studio track, which was recorded by a student
engineer in a semi-proper studio on protools, then mixed and
mastered by a professional engineer is here:
http://www.last.fm/music/kitten+cake
mp3 here:
http://drop.io/dont_call_her_baby (password: kc09)
I would like to get a similar sound with our practice-room
recordings mixed and mastered by me! .... not asking much! :) Any
hints as to how I might approach that kind of sound would be very
much appreciated!
James