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Yo. I am working on a hiphop remix for a friend but I am getting 'nasty ass' clipping on the master channel even when the individual mixes are way below peak. Anyone able to shed some light on why this happens because it's happened before and nothing I seem to do will fix it. |
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Probly your compressors. Try phasing to make things louder instead of compression. |
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I know many people will agree with me here, but never use compression on your bass. Only use it on the beats if you want it to have a compressed sound, or the voice if you want to control the dynamics. Use inverted stereo on you bassline, because it makes it much more pronounced without taking up too much headroom. |
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And by that I mean, "I know many people will disagree with me here" |
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Compressors need to be used carefully. They can do crazy magical things that you don't realize, like amplifying sounds you don't necessarily hear, causing your mix to sound muddy or clippy. |
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Put a mastering limiter on the master channel, but don't set it to normalize / compress. It will catch the peaks that are clipping without affecting the rest of the sound. is pretty good for doing that with the threshold control set at zero. As you turn it down it will start to affect the sound. |
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nice one yo. will try suggestions asap. |
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I may be confused about what you're talking about, but just because each individual channel is under clip, it doesn't mean the main mix will also be under clip... I usually just turn down the main mix volume when stuff like that happens and then I turn my speakers up... |
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can someone explain to me how compression works |
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next time dont be so fucking eager |
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If you are using stereo bass, then it can fuck up the mix, you need to compress it down to mono at the very low end, where the sub bass kicks in. There's a vst called otiumfx basslane that is pretty good, but I'm sure there's better ones out there. |
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Thats a good way to make your mix sound boring. People use compression way too much. It makes everything sound generic. |
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low end bass isn't directional anyway |
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interesting tips here, ill try some later. i dont tend to use compression much. a limiter then quantized eqs stereo spearation etc. when i deem it necessary |
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Try to mix down at about -6db |
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here's a bit of suggested reading: by Bob Katz if you shop around you might find it at a cheaper price. |
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