sebraa: my intention wasn't to make you look like a newbie to the subject, my apologies for that

well anyway, it seems like some of the people here in the thread are talking about EQing and compressing in the mastering process and some are talking about EQing and compressing on single instruments in the mixing process

well just some general guidelines(no rights or wrongs really as long as the final result is good)

Mixing: a good tip is to compress all the instruments in the mix, we're mostly not talking about much compression here...just a tad on every instrument to make shure you don't get any nasty peaks anywhere and to make it more level

mastering: what you do before the limiter is totally up to you but always put the limiter last, if you EQ after limiting the clipping will probably go wild on ya (this even goes for equalizers that decrease something. it's been proved that even if you decrease with a EQ it can still increase frequencies and so on)

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Originally posted by Vizay sebraa: my intention wasn't to make you look like a newbie to the subject, my apologies for that well anyway, it seems like some of the people here in the thread are talking about EQing and compressing in the mastering process and some are talking about EQing and compressing on single instruments in the mixing process well just some general guidelines(no rights or wrongs really as long as the final result is good) Mixing: a good tip is to compress all the instruments in the mix, we're mostly not talking about much compression here...just a tad on every instrument to make shure you don't get any nasty peaks anywhere and to make it more level mastering: what you do before the limiter is totally up to you but always put the limiter last, if you EQ after limiting the clipping will probably go wild on ya (this even goes for equalizers that decrease something. it's been proved that even if you decrease with a EQ it can still increase frequencies and so on)

Sounds like the signal chain, in general then, in order:

Each track: Misc FX as needed->Compressor->EQ

Final Mix: EQ->Compressor->Limiter

I've noticed most "mastering suites" have a signal chain of EQ->Compressor->Limiter so I assume this is "proper" technique.

Is this correct?

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Originally posted by alanzo EQ should be the very last thing u apply

thats actually wrong mate, the chain is:-

EQ then COMPRESSION then LIMIT

For some reason i always thought 'eckle' to myself everytime i worked on a track and it stuck lol

Alan

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