hello
i've recorded about a dozen songs, some rather metal, some rather electronica, some pretty loud parts, some pretty soft parts... not a dozen punk rock songs repeating the same strum from start to end.
then...
why do they sound so f***ing linear when you listen to the entire playlist? it is as if the word "crescendo" were not in my dictonary.is this problem related to compression? they all have a final stage of multiband compression (masterx3, with very similar parameters from one song to another...hmm...) and some eq after it, but the compression ratio is not that much (sometimes about 2:5, sometimes about 1:8) and none of the instruments is specially overcompressed at the recording/mixing stage.should I manually pump up the gain of louder parts, or reduce the softer ones? should i automate the final compression plugin? adding another multiband plugin? any whatever?
thanks in advance
i've recorded about a dozen songs, some rather metal, some rather electronica, some pretty loud parts, some pretty soft parts... not a dozen punk rock songs repeating the same strum from start to end.
then...
why do they sound so f***ing linear when you listen to the entire playlist? it is as if the word "crescendo" were not in my dictonary.is this problem related to compression? they all have a final stage of multiband compression (masterx3, with very similar parameters from one song to another...hmm...) and some eq after it, but the compression ratio is not that much (sometimes about 2:5, sometimes about 1:8) and none of the instruments is specially overcompressed at the recording/mixing stage.should I manually pump up the gain of louder parts, or reduce the softer ones? should i automate the final compression plugin? adding another multiband plugin? any whatever?
thanks in advance