pls help urgent -over compressed?

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Six Strings said:
i do not know what i might bedoing rong?
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What you are "bedoing rong" is beleiving that we are actually stupid enough to fall for your story of a "professional engineer" from Afghanistan that deals with western music scales (six strings) and western bands that are hip to the volume wars, and that in his "professional recording studio" uses Cool Edit Pro as his editor, that offers up as a sample "after" image a blatently obviously doctored screen shot, that would even have to ask such a moronic question to begin with, and that even if he did have a legit question, would come here to ask it.

The second thing that you are doing wrong is believing that is is an actually funny or productive use of time for a 16 or 17 yr old kid. You should be out saving for a car and chasing chicks and not wasting you time goofing around on the Internet.

G.
 
jho1986 said:
Are you guys telling me you never put a limiter or compressor on the master output? Guess what?... No band wants a quiet mix. They don't care about the loss in the quality. I agree that it should be done in by a mastering engineer, but lets be real... most bands just want the recording engineer to do it, and if it makes them happy I'll do it the best I can.
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That's great, any other spectacular stories in your mastering history? It's not some great revelation that bands want their mixes loud. Thanks for sharing that trade secret with everyone here.
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
What you are "bedoing rong" is beleiving that we are actually stupid enough to fall for your story of a "professional engineer" from Afghanistan that deals with western music scales (six strings) and western bands that are hip to the volume wars, and that in his "professional recording studio" uses Cool Edit Pro as his editor, that offers up as a sample "after" image a blatently obviously doctored screen shot, that would even have to ask such a moronic question to begin with, and that even if he did have a legit question, would come here to ask it.

The second thing that you are doing wrong is believing that is is an actually funny or productive use of time for a 16 or 17 yr old kid. You should be out saving for a car and chasing chicks and not wasting you time goofing around on the Internet.

G.
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. He never learned anything about a compressor in Audio Engineering 101, but he has enough brain power to bring the recording all the way to this stage with no other problems. He's also pretty damn slick with a screen capture utility.

He's no idiot. He is probably a regular here and just messing with you all.

RawDepth
 
jho1986 said:
Are you guys telling me you never put a limiter or compressor on the master output? Guess what?... No band wants a quiet mix. They don't care about the loss in the quality. I agree that it should be done in by a mastering engineer, but lets be real... most bands just want the recording engineer to do it, and if it makes them happy I'll do it the best I can.
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You are going to extremes in both directions. You seem to be saying that for you it is either flat-lining the waveform or no compression/limiting at all. There is an area between these extremes, and that is what you should be aiming for.

No one said anything about a quiet mix, but clearly your "after" waveform is unacceptable as well. So again, back off the threshold and use less makeup gain. You want to shave off the big peaks and bring up the lower volumes, but not smash everything to flatness. At the very least, let's see some movement of a minimum of 6 db in the waveform.
 
Well, for one second here I will operate on the assumption that this thread is not started by a troll or the likes thereof and address this problem with what I consider to be the best advice yet in this thread....

Start looking for another job. If you are working in a "professional recording studio" than you have no business working there. If you can not understand a basic compressor and how or why it works, you need a new job. Plus, even if you stay there, your job will be short lived. Any studio that allows a band to say what they will and won't pay for will not be around long. Any studio that hires an engineer that comes here to ask the most basic of questions will be even shorter lived than the studio from the sentence before this. In either scenario, your best option for making a living is anywhere besides where you are now.
 
Hilarious thread. Hilarious waveform pics!!

Dynamics are highly overrated. They’re nothing but trouble. They suck up valuable space that could be used for increased loudness. I'm gonna compress my latest work into a ruler-straight waveform peaking at 0 dBFS. I'm sure I can get it without distortion just by using several stages of limiting. Oh wait... it wouldn't be peaking actually since there won't be any peaks. Haha! And then I'm gonna compress it some more.

:cool: :D :cool: :D :p :eek: :D

Tim
 
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I don't see what the big deal is. Looks like there is still about 1db of headroom; crank it up some more! :D

OK, this is a waste of time, but try this:
Go to Transform - Dynamics processing
Compress 4:1 above -4db, compress 2:1 below -4db, flat below -10.
Under Attack/release, try attack 0, release time of 50ms, and lookahead 3-5ms.
Make sure bandlimiting covers the entire audio range (0 to 22500).
After that processes, normalize it to 0db, or whatever you prefer, and see if that is loud enough for you.

This probably won't be very good, but it should be better. Thanks for tricking me into wasting my time. :rolleyes:
 
i knew something was fishy about this. Maybe he is real but he seems like he just started recording.
 
Well, the "squashed" picture probably isn't even that. It's probably white noise that this troll is using for this thread. I can not imagine how he could possibly take the before picture and make that after picture without a lot of effort.
 
LMAO!! :D I just sprayed absinthe all over my screen and it just caught fire...
 
xstatic said:
I can not imagine how he could possibly take the before picture and make that after picture without a lot of effort.
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It's painfully easy when you fake it with Photoshop, which I'll give you 3:1 is what we're looking at.

G.
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
It's painfully easy when you fake it with Photoshop, which I'll give you 3:1 is what we're looking at.

G.
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i do not own photoshop :confused: :confused:

band decided loudness is not important and they are satisfied with my work

i never use compression before i am recording engineer

i am recording engineer
 
Six Strings said:
i do not own photoshop
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No, of course not. You stole a cracked copy of it from BitTorrent instead.

G.
 
i do not have photoshop on computer

computer is recording computer for recording studio

i have no need for photoshop

:confused: :confused:

screen images taken with print screen
 
xstatic said:
Well, the "squashed" picture probably isn't even that. It's probably white noise that this troll is using for this thread. I can not imagine how he could possibly take the before picture and make that after picture without a lot of effort.
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Change gain by +24dB would do it. Twice, if necessary :D
 
mshilarious said:
Change gain by +24dB would do it. Twice, if necessary :D
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what are these mics you sell mshilarious

i guess you make these homemade????

of what quality would you compare these to other mics?
 
That's hands down the best spelling I've ever seen from someone with bad grammar :D
 
Why does it keep creeping into my head that Six Strings is really Ford Van?

Dunno.

Tim
 
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