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I just finished mixing and my faders were very low (like 1/4 up) on the guitars. If I raised them higher they were too high in the mix, too loud. I think this is because I doubled 1 of the guitar tracks and it summed? (is this how it works?).
But other instruments (bass, vocals) were fine. So being a newbie to this I just went with it, but I feel something is intuitively wrong.
When I "mastered" I used a peak limiter to raise the volume of the track since I couldn't raise the guitars in the DAW without them getting offensively loud compared to the other instruments. When doing this (peak limiter -- just raised the level 12db) I imagine it's compressing the heck out of the mix to get that volume?
Can anyone inform me on how this works? Thanks!
The questions would be:
1. Does duplicating a guitar track (1 mono track that I just duplicated) cause it to sum and raise the volume? It sounded that way.
2. Does a typical peak limiter (e.g. wavelab peak limiter, l2, etc) just clip off peaks so you can raise volume, or is it squashing everything?
3. I can't figure out where it all went wrong.
Here is the track. It's just my lady and I doing home recordings so it's not a huge deal. I'd just like to get better at recording, mixing, mastering, etc.
-tracker-1/chavez-unreal-is-here
But other instruments (bass, vocals) were fine. So being a newbie to this I just went with it, but I feel something is intuitively wrong.
When I "mastered" I used a peak limiter to raise the volume of the track since I couldn't raise the guitars in the DAW without them getting offensively loud compared to the other instruments. When doing this (peak limiter -- just raised the level 12db) I imagine it's compressing the heck out of the mix to get that volume?
Can anyone inform me on how this works? Thanks!
The questions would be:
1. Does duplicating a guitar track (1 mono track that I just duplicated) cause it to sum and raise the volume? It sounded that way.
2. Does a typical peak limiter (e.g. wavelab peak limiter, l2, etc) just clip off peaks so you can raise volume, or is it squashing everything?
3. I can't figure out where it all went wrong.
Here is the track. It's just my lady and I doing home recordings so it's not a huge deal. I'd just like to get better at recording, mixing, mastering, etc.
-tracker-1/chavez-unreal-is-here
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