ADA had full page centerfold ads in every guitar magazine. Back covers too.
So you are aware their preamps have tubes.
That being said, many try to work on individual tone separately without knowing how the mix works together. Anyone could tell you how to get a tone for an instrument, but it will not always/usually not work in a given mix. It takes all of the variables to combine together. It not just one instrument that makes a composition work. Once you have a good mix, then you can go into the individual sounds, and find what works best with the mix.
Nobody ever knows what is best bass/drum/guitar/vocal sound without all of them together. Shit does not mix itself on it's own tone alone. It is a combination of all.
Am I supposed to normalize?
but if you Normalize all the tracks wouldnt the cymbal all of a sudden become louder and not have the dynamics of the player?
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Ok so that is going to be a problem in digital land? I think I saved the project already with the tracks already normalized...shit. Post #11 shows the normalized tracks , and it was saved that way.
If I do not use normailze to get it to-14 standard, I will be blindly moving the main slider up and down till I get a MP3 near -14 lufs. It would be impossible to make it exactly -14 LUFS. Because the levels drop 8-10 db on the render.
To be clear I am not using a limiter. No VSTs yet. Besides the drums vst and ezkeys or whatever. I am NOT applying anything to the mains except the loudness analyzer from the action tab.