The thread is back from the dead i see...
Lt. Bob- thanks my man. And good to hear you're still interested in that other thing! It will be interesting to hear
the metamorphosis. Cheers Steve!
dobro- i'll be sending you a PM about your cd. Got it yesterday...excellent stuff. Well worth more than the
little money i paid.
You know, I've learned something from this one. I dumped Winamp from my system yesterday, and nominated Cool Edit as my mp3 player. Which means I see the waveform as well as hear the song. The waveform for Dry is a bit of a revelation to me. When I do a mix, I take the peaks of my mixdown up to clipping but not beyond - that's one reason I compress tracks, so I can get the overall track level higher without clipping. But you haven't done that - the waveform goes way over the line and the meter is clipping again and again, but I don't hear any distortion. Huh?
So, first question: how'd you do that?
First off, this tune is completely unmastered, no compression, no nothing. I almost never do any mastering to my stuff, mostly because I really don't feel confident enough to do it myself. I try to settle all that stuff in the mixing process. I've been debating with myself for a while whether or not I should get a ME for any "release" I do. I'd be interested in hearing what this stuff would sound like mastered.
But this doesn't actually answer your question. I'm not sure exactly how to answer that, or if I even know the answer... let's explore it a little....
I mix with Sonar. I submix out through four separate mains. I make absopositively certain that none of these 4 Mains clips at all (some times this seems just unavoidable, so I make sure it isn't clipping by 10 dB's or something). Then I export these 4 mains as a single stereo wave file. I then listen to the wave all mixed down, this allows me most importantly to hear it without the defects of heavy cpu usage caused by soft-effects like reverb and chorus.
That's pretty much it. I don't like messing with the peaks for the full mix...I don't feel I yet have the ears for that.
Second question: what's your bass and bass chain?
Korg Triton>sound card
It's fake bass mixed very meticulously...I haven't yet found the budget for a real bass. Actually my younger brother just bought a cheap Epiphone bass that I'll be trying when I have a long enough time frame to record. I'm almost thinking of selling the Triton to get a bass, but I like it for that occasional pad that just completely changes the backdrop.
You probably weren't expecting those answers, sorry they probably won't be of much use. But I'm fond of questions, so thanks.
powderfinger- Thanks man...glad you liked this one. I think I wrote the music mostly to sort of hypnotize myself or something...it was quite a while ago. But it took me to places to, so I thought I'd record it and was pretty heppy I did. The drums are drum kit from hell. I've been using them since December I think. I'm constantly finding new ways to mix them too....EQ etc. Thanks again!
Sydfan- haha...cheers man. Very cool things to say...appreciated!
) I'd have you try a couple parts again. Again this is just minor stuff but would take this from a fecking unbelievable performance to a "perfect" one IMVHO. Excellent piece of work man!!!