Greetings to everyone over here;haven't been to these forums for a while but when I was posting a lot a year or so back learned a lot from everyone who replied to my threads and want to thank everyone again for taking the time to help me figure things out.....
Have moved to an "in the box" DAW approach from the hardware-based one I was using back then so I'm thinking that the situation of people offering suggestions based on using DAW's and my trying to figure out how to do things w/my set-up is no longer a factor.....
Currently working on a fairly complicated mix involving a focus on range allocation/levels so everything interacting rhythmically will be clearly audible,this is a latin percussion-oriented track where the low conga and bass play the same figure(or similar ones) at the same time and as a result I've set up a send from the conga track to the bass bus where I've got a compressor with sidechaining....
What I'm trying to figure out is how to have the bass stay at a relatively consistent level when it plays something that the low conga isn't simultaneously rhythmically supporting,I've figured out compressor settings that give me the type of low conga balance/level in the mix I'm after but whenever the bass plays something by itself the volume jumps way up so I decided to post over here after tweaking things for while without getting the results I was looking for-
The overall mix levels are still in the developing stages so things are very much fluid,in flux...have 4 different bass tracks w/different sounds blended together going into the bass bus and the relative bus level in the overall mix is still being looked at...
Factors involved here in terms of the sidechaining itself are the conga send level as well as all the usual compressor settings...I've got the standard fast attack as well as a release time that preserves the sustain of the bass notes,been trying different knee/ratio/threshold/makeup gain settings...
I'm wondering if setting up another compressor before the sidechain compressor would be a good idea in terms of the bass level remaining relatively constant or at least not jumping up abruptly.....
Again much thanks to everyone who replied to my earlier posts over here......
Have moved to an "in the box" DAW approach from the hardware-based one I was using back then so I'm thinking that the situation of people offering suggestions based on using DAW's and my trying to figure out how to do things w/my set-up is no longer a factor.....
Currently working on a fairly complicated mix involving a focus on range allocation/levels so everything interacting rhythmically will be clearly audible,this is a latin percussion-oriented track where the low conga and bass play the same figure(or similar ones) at the same time and as a result I've set up a send from the conga track to the bass bus where I've got a compressor with sidechaining....
What I'm trying to figure out is how to have the bass stay at a relatively consistent level when it plays something that the low conga isn't simultaneously rhythmically supporting,I've figured out compressor settings that give me the type of low conga balance/level in the mix I'm after but whenever the bass plays something by itself the volume jumps way up so I decided to post over here after tweaking things for while without getting the results I was looking for-
The overall mix levels are still in the developing stages so things are very much fluid,in flux...have 4 different bass tracks w/different sounds blended together going into the bass bus and the relative bus level in the overall mix is still being looked at...
Factors involved here in terms of the sidechaining itself are the conga send level as well as all the usual compressor settings...I've got the standard fast attack as well as a release time that preserves the sustain of the bass notes,been trying different knee/ratio/threshold/makeup gain settings...
I'm wondering if setting up another compressor before the sidechain compressor would be a good idea in terms of the bass level remaining relatively constant or at least not jumping up abruptly.....
Again much thanks to everyone who replied to my earlier posts over here......
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