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Bad practice in production
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| eee.ddd.y |
I am wondering about volume levels when mixing and bad practce when adjusting volumes..I have two main questions here:
1: suppose my kick drum goes through a channel and i add a few plugins to that kick. then it is routed to a group channel together with a clap. If the levels in the grouped track are getting too high, am i taking away from the content of the kick and clap by reducing the volume of the grouped track. so in effect the kick start off a higher volume and is turned down further down the channels in mix.
2: if i insert a compressor on a grouped track lets say with a few mid frequency synths and i set the 'output' of the compressor to a negative level, are the instruments in the grouped track losing quality or audio content that cannot be restored? Similarly on the master bus, i like to insert subtle compression and is it bad practice to have the output knob turning down the volume of the content that was going into the compressor in the first place.
Hope theres some views on this |
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| DJ RANN |
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Seroiusly dude, you need to make way more sense in your questions to get a decent answer.
Maybe, I'm just being FIK right now but I've read it three times and still can't get what you're going on about.
Are you asking about gain staging or how to mix with groups? Are you using sends or inserts on the kick?
AS for the second question, I don;t know what you mean by losing audio quality or something that can't be restored later?
and WTF is "the output knob turning down the volume of the content that was going into the compressor in the first place"? |
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| DigiNut |
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Yeah, weird question.
No, turning the volume down doesn't degrade the quality. It doesn't matter if it's the volume of a track or the output gain of a compressor.
But it also makes no sense for you to have negative gain on the output of a compressor. The whole point of a compressor is to raise the overall gain. |
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| music2dance2 |
if you have the kick sitting high and then its grouped with other sounds if you lower the group volume it will lower the kick together with the other sounds in that group.
If you have compression on the master out and lower the output of the compressor the sound of the mix will go down.
I don't think these are the answer you were after but I'm also lost in your questions. Hope that helps anyway. 1+ what diginut said. |
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| Lyft |
integrity when you adjust gain.
however, this is why your mixdowns should always have a little headroom when you send them to a ME, because unless you send them a 32bit wav, there will be slight loss in quality if they have to drasticly boost/cut loudness. it's realistically only a trivial amount, but every little bit of signal quality helps to get an awesome sounding track :) |
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| Decoder |
| you can equilize individual plug-ins or space them apart, and then try recoding. however, i think i shouldn't drink inside the studio or take calls. it's not a safe practice. |
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| music2dance2 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Decoder
you can equilize individual plug-ins or space them apart, and then try recoding. however, i think i shouldn't drink inside the studio or take calls. it's not a safe practice. |
booty calls are ok though |
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| Lyft |
| quote: | Originally posted by music2dance2
booty calls are ok though |
agreed. getting head while writing tunes rules.
it can be a tad distracting though :P |
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| Decoder |
| quote: | Originally posted by music2dance2
booty calls are ok though |
depends on the production ahaha |
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| music2dance2 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Decoder
depends on the production ahaha |
More importantly depends on the girl lol. |
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| Decoder |
| quote: | Originally posted by music2dance2
More importantly depends on the girl lol. |
I knew you were one of them! :gsmile: |
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| music2dance2 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Decoder
I knew you were one of them! :gsmile: |
eh? |
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