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Well, I've been doing some stuff with me and my friend and I'm pretty sure that the way I've been doing things somewhat strange. I've been very happy with the results--pleasently surprised. I kind of want to describe the process I go through for mixing and the like and would appreciate any comments about how I could improve.
First, I should say that the music I've been working on is a form of electronic and very rough around the edges. I know I'm not the best at production, so instead of making my mix sound as crisp as possible, I embraced my poor talent and tried to make it fit with the theme of the music.
So, to the process. I have four instruments that usually I have to worry about in the mix; a synth, a bass(amped and mic'd), guitar(amped and mic'd), and drums(sequenced in fruityloops).
And this will may come as a horror to some people, but for software in which I am doing the mixing and arranging is fruityloops (3.56 or something?). I record with cooledit, tweak the recording a bit, then export it to a .wav so that I can sequence in fruityloops.
Then, within fruityloops I use the effects thing to apply plug-in effects. I do my EQing here, and my compression, and other things like delays and phasors, etc. For my chain in the effects thing it usually goes(I think I could use some help here on order):
effect -> compressor -> EQ
I guess I have some questions about .wav conversions in fruityloops, how big of a hit am I taking? Also, how big of hit do I take when I am using cool-edit (cool-edit is where I do wav manipulations for exportation to fruityloops).
Any one gone down this path before?
First, I should say that the music I've been working on is a form of electronic and very rough around the edges. I know I'm not the best at production, so instead of making my mix sound as crisp as possible, I embraced my poor talent and tried to make it fit with the theme of the music.
So, to the process. I have four instruments that usually I have to worry about in the mix; a synth, a bass(amped and mic'd), guitar(amped and mic'd), and drums(sequenced in fruityloops).
And this will may come as a horror to some people, but for software in which I am doing the mixing and arranging is fruityloops (3.56 or something?). I record with cooledit, tweak the recording a bit, then export it to a .wav so that I can sequence in fruityloops.
Then, within fruityloops I use the effects thing to apply plug-in effects. I do my EQing here, and my compression, and other things like delays and phasors, etc. For my chain in the effects thing it usually goes(I think I could use some help here on order):
effect -> compressor -> EQ
I guess I have some questions about .wav conversions in fruityloops, how big of a hit am I taking? Also, how big of hit do I take when I am using cool-edit (cool-edit is where I do wav manipulations for exportation to fruityloops).
Any one gone down this path before?
