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Caught between "put very little on mix bus - that's the mastering job" and "make the mix sound as good as possible" long title, but appropriate question. Say you're mixing a single. I hear two main thoughts out there to deliver the mix to a mastering house - 1. put as little effects on the...

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I'm going to try and post a before and after mix of "You Give Love a Bad Name", a Bon Jovi song we played around with as a band. About a year ago I mixed #1 , and about a month ago I mixed #13 using some tone correction from RICH (2getheraudio plugin). There's a major difference...

I love this. Sounds really nice, performance and spacial properties. You were wondering about getting all the muddiness out. I don't think it's muddy, but I think it could get a little clearer. There's a great mix bus plugin called RICH from 2getheraudio. It's one of those free ones that...

I didn't like the guitar layering as it was, so I re-recorded a rhythm track in stereo, and blended in another guitar in mono dead center. I also added a mandolin. It should be off to the singer.

This is a bluegrass backing track to a song I wrote. A friend wrote some lyrics and she will be singing on top of this later. I have 4 acoustic guitars total. The song is in Am, and guitar #L is panned left playing rhythm with no capo, guitar #R is panned right playing rhythm capoed on the...

2getheraudio makes RICH, a cool new plugin. This is really a nice mastering or mix bus plugin for cheap. It's like a sonic enhancer. It works really well especially in bringing air and shine to the mix. Here's a couple of clips of a song I'm working on, with RICH enabled and with RICH bypassed.

I mixed a song both ways, using saturation on the mix bus and using no saturation... and then a/b them every 5 seconds. The first 5s has no saturation, the second 5s does, etc... I'm not sure which one I like better yet, but I think maybe split the difference with the saturation between the two...

You've got to admit, when it comes to mixing using plugins, the combinations of ways to mix is infinite. There are different orders for each chain, different eq's, different compressions, and what I found out tonight is there are tons of different ways to saturate. I didn't have any...

It was on sale so I grabbed it last night. It's a very good sounding plugin for saturation. It does things I never knew could sound that good.

Yes, I think I understand now. There is a dynamic range (usually 7 to 9) and there is a loudness range (around 1 or 2). Then there is a dynamic ratio. It's making sense now....

I think for a lot of us starting out in mastering, the main thing we don't want is to get the result normalized so that the sonic quality loses its punch. Some normalization is expected, but not to the song's detriment. I think this is why I look at numbers at all to shoot for. For the most...

Thank you for the answers. And that's why I post my questions here, because I know nothing LOL. I didn't know it's good to have a low dynamic range. I understand that, I just thought in my genre of bluegrass maybe things were different because bluegrassers are purists. They like to get it...

I haven't been mastering very long, and I kind of borrowed this mixer setup in Pro Tools from a youtube video. But I may have some things out of order, IDK. My main question involves the dynamic range which I can't get above 2 for long term. I have no compressors or limiter on the master...

I believe my computer isn’t doing the offline bouncing very well. I’m getting odd sonic quality. Back to real-time bouncing.