I know what you mean, the amount of vinyl I used to buy and get really disappointed upon first play.

Coiuldn't tell you how to liven it up though, I imagine someone will advise you to put it through a compressor or something.

a lot of $$$ and a lot of nice studio equipment...i remember a thread on here a while back going into what might be used on ASOT, compressors, limiters, etc...

you could try some layering.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On No, but I also don't drink out of a fucking sippy-cup you goddamned Appalachian.

well im using traktor for djing, what i do is rewiring traktor to ableton, and then i use a mastering tool on ableton (im using izotope but i guess any will do). Im using virtual cable for rewiring on pc, but on mac it is easier since mac has this little tool (i cant remember the name now). the only drawback is the added latency with all this rewiring. Anyway you can always hook your cdjs and run them tru ableton which will significantly reduce the latency, that of course if you are not using softwares for mixing.

you won't get that pro sound you might be looking for but it is pretty decent.

ASOT is a radio show, they have nice expensive compressors and sonic exciters to give the sound more punch

when i worked in radio, our engineering department had a bunch of different components in the signal path before it went to the transmitters to give the audio more punch and to liven it up

you really need to know what you're doing though otherwise you lose all the dynamic range, which also adds to the overall sound

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Yeah I brought this up before. Markus Schulz is the same way with Global DJ Broadcast. His sets have an average rms of 8!!!! yet he retains pretty much all of the dynamics. Don't know how it's possible. I'm sure it's a really nice special compressor just for something like that.

I just looked at the comparison. It's not that big of a difference honestly. You can tell it's been compressed and limited though. The compression gives it more punch the limiter (which sounds like a multi band limiter) lifts the less prominent features and equals out the range between the different freq. sets.

grab i mic

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