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Without criticizing or commenting on the overall quality, this guy is using a lot of bit reduction and stuff like tape and vinyl saturation to intentionally (I assume intentionally) muddy up the sound. The guitar riffs at 2:17 imply tape emulators - the Wow/Flutter settings are ramped up to the...

Soundminer and Basehead. Industry standard.

Add it right after. If you add it before, or attempt to use it with the singer, it will add unwanted latency. It will also confuse the singer. To the second part, you have to buy it separately. Its $400.

If you do this, the general rule of thumb is shorter-brighter / longer-darker. Same goes for stacking delays. No it doesn't increase the likelihood of them fighting. You decrease that likelihood by doing the opposite. Bus them both to the same verb. The manipulation of the source is what will...

A couple people on this forum mistakenly believe that gain staging within a channel doesn't matter. This is a prime example of where they're clearly wrong. Its a good practice by large to get in the habit of getting levels somewhat under control before sending the source to any plugins...

He's trying to create an automation lane for his EQ, but he's really going about this the wrong way. He created a parallel EQ path when he should have activated an automation lane for a specific group of EQ parameters. YouTube

Try a bunch of different compressors. They're not all the same. Some are distinctly more transparent than others when placed on the exact same settings. I didn't read much of the previous threads, but you can time the attack and release to the bpm of the song. Convert the ms to bpm and...

Try changing parameters a bit for the layered duplicate.

They key thing is that you've identified yourself as a new, semi-pro, small studio. I would make sure this guy has a budget of at least $300 pr song and bill him $15 - $20 pr hour for it. Let him know that you'll try to keep it less than $300, but that the editing/revision process is lengthy...

This entire forum has a terrible habit of wasting its time offering technical advice for music it can't hear. Can you post an audio clip? The question is not strait-forward enough to warrant any verbal or conceptual advice without context.

Hold up a sec... that doesn't make sense and doesn't add up. How did you end up with all the copyright privileges? Did you purchase it back from the label? If it was a full blown commercial studio and the quality from a home facility. Don't go into this with expectation of that. Its flat out...

Ok. Gotcha. I understand. lol - Those mono price monitors will get the job done. I bought a pair of 5's and a pair of 8's to review them when they went on sale four years ago. I did a couple test mixes on them then ended up giving them to friends, but I used them enough to confirm that they're...

Hey Nelson. You have to have a fucking amazing parametric equalizer in order for it to outperform a plugin equalizer in the context of a recording. Though there are some analog EQ's that can't be replicated or matched by any digital effect currently on the market, my general recommendation...

Ok. This is a workflow question. Give me some more specifics on what you're tracking, because the workflow for layering and dubbing guitars is sometimes very different than the workflow for shooting vocals, drums, pianos, live horn sections etc... Something that may help: It is perfectly...

We finally have something worth discussing here. What do you mean when you say "I'm just trying to match the song sonically"? Sonically in this case is a bunch of elements working together. Are you talking about EQ? About space? About levels? About wideness/openess/width? If you're talking...

Miro, if he's trying to re-create stuff, you need to know what tools he has available to really help him with anything. Trusso, if you're serious about getting help with this stuff, people will need to walk you through specific parts of the weak areas of your the recordings. To avoid people...

The most important thing here is that NO ONE CAN HELP WITH ANYTHING UNLESS YOU POST RECORDINGS. No one here (including highly experienced pros like myself) can tell you ANYTHING of importance without hearing what you're getting from your recordings right now. Its also difficult to critique...

Very true. Successfully mimicking techniques enables you to apply them at your own discretion. Mimicking a technique in one context won't guarantee it works in another context, but you develop a sense of where they will work and where they won't. You can then exhert your own creativity and...

Very well said!! That's an excellent answer to ashcat and altarman's response a from couple days ago. In short, as Drew has illustrated, it is about how someone manages their signal as its passed from plugin to plugin down the insert chain. And the behavior of some plugins changes depending...

Here's a couple hints: Why do plugins such as the Opticom XLA, Neve 1073, and Decapitator have output trim? Why to plugins like the API 2500, J37, Voxbox, and Distressor have input trims? (We are not talking about compression threshold. Input trim is a dedicated gain staging feature...