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Hmm very interesting. It seems all the reading I've done has left all this information out. Even on this thread, there's no mention of guidelines or best practices for managing your peaks for tracking, mixing, and mastering.... which I'm finding out is the absolute most basic thing to work with...

Wow, then I've really been doing it wrong. All my tracking has revolved around a 0dB peak too... as in, when I play a guitar part, as long as it's below 0dB I thought I was fine :/ The majority of my raw drums/guitar/bass inputs are close to 0dB. So when the mix is complete, the Master bus...

So my individual instrument tracks shouldn't peak at more than -10dB, but my Master bus can go higher, just not above 0dB... is that right? Wow... all this time I've been playing with the notion that as long as it's under 0dB on the instrument track, it's fine, as long as the Master isn't...

That's a great idea, I'll do that for sure :) Loudness isn't my goal. Right now, if I shuffle my song in with a playlist, my song is way softer than the others in terms of volume. I just want it to be on the same volume level as other music without distorting at this point, not necessarily...

Ah ok, thank you. That does seem really low to me. If I put all the instruments so that the master is ~-10dB, it'll be super quiet, but again, I'm comparing to a commercial song. So basically I need to bring everything WAY down, mix it so the Master bus peaks around -10dB, render that to a...

Sorry, should have stated... this is in my DAW. That low, really? I also had no idea about rendering the file at a really low volume and then importing it into a seperate project and applying compression and whatnot. Do you have anything I can read (tutorial, etc) about that process? The...

I admit I'm a beginner at mixing... but I can get everything sounding pretty damn good, all the instruments have their own space, and the song as a whole sounds great. Right now, the result of my mix is about as loud as it will go... I'm already peaking about +2.5dB on my Master fader. All my...

Thanks, I'll look for a Hammond VSTi.... And not emulating ELP, just a sample of the organ sound I'm looking for.

Hey everyone! I'm looking for a VSTi synth that has a specific sound, preferably in a preset, or settings that someone has to generate the same sound. The sound I'm looking for is this synth sound, in Emerson Lake & Palmer's Toccata... ...From 0:36-0:40 in the video below Emerson, Lake &...

Works great, thank you guys!

AH I never thought of this! So the fader on the GuitarFX channel will control the output of the three guitar channels combined (with FX), and I can control the output and panning of the individual guitars on the guitar track faders... correct? The GuitarFX being center won't override the...

I have 3 guitar tracks and one GuitarFX track: Guitar 1 - Panned Left (NO Master send, send to GuitarFX, Pre-FX) Guitar 2 - Center (NO Master send, send to GuitarFX, Pre-FX) Guitar 3 - Panned Right (NO Master send, send to GuitarFX, Pre-FX) GuitarFX - Center (Master send) All 3 guitars are...

Thanks for all your help everyone. I think I've come up with a cool melody that intertwines itself to the rhythm of the music. I just put the song on repeat and would listen to it endlessly until I thought of something. We'll see how it turns out! :D

Ah yeah I can see that. But technically speaking, do you for example use the root notes of the chord progression as a starting point, or kind of hum it out and see what fits?

Well done man.

So you typically have lyrics first, and then compose a melody to fit the lyrics? Have you ever done the reverse, come up with a melody, then write lyrics to fit it?

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I'm in the middle of writing a song, and I'm approaching the vocal part of it. I've never come up with vocal melodies before, so I'm curious how you vocalists come up with melodies, particularly coming up with that catchy chorus melody. I've been searching for popular songs in the same key to...

My humble work-in-progress drum studio. Still some work left to do: - Finish the back corner once the foundation leak is fixed when the ground thaws - Moulding, - Floor - Make some acoustic baffles I'm done working for now, and I'm just going to enjoy using the room for a while. When I get...

Finished for now. I still have some work to do: - Finish the back corner once the foundation leak is fixed when the ground thaws - Moulding, - Floor - Make some acoustic baffles I'm done working for now, and I'm just going to enjoy using the room for a while. When I get the motivation...