SmartCat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2019 2:28 am
Stefken wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2019 2:20 am
Tip: They typically need a bit more oumph compared to other vsts. Inserting one or more saturators after the instrument will take care of that.
Thanks Stefken, I´ll try that!
Do you recommend a tape plugin for the saturation?
Instead turn the knobs and sculpt your sound, before inserting saturators on every track! most of time saturators harm more than help, Use tape saturators if you need to tame higs, beware adding saturation on every synth can sound total mess! you kill the spacing needed for using more than one synt and then you have to equalise each sound to recreate that space because adding saturation is adding harmonics...Result at the end your mix sound thin distorded and flat. You dont need to eq, compress and saturate every tracks but using this tools only when it's necessary! the collection V sound great and for shure sound great without saturators! most of time hobbyist are squashing sounds with saturation, bad compression curves, heavy clipping limiting, they cant event ear the artifacts because they are mixing whit cheap or bad monitoring and when they start to ear there is already way to much, some of them even don't knows how high resolution files sound and are looking for mp3 128kbps sound,in my career I meat crazy producers on my studio some of them with DAW projects full of mp3 at different resolutions, Of course I refused to work whit them!
Learn to A/B with rms matched volume to compare with the saturation added and without being fooled by volume difference between the two? tools like mCompare help's this process and you can also blind test. If I have to give 3 tip's is:
1: the choice of instrumentation (how the different instruments share the spectral balance space) and the quality of composition arrangement is the key for 80% of the sound...Remember great composers don't need to eq compress their orchestra!
2: when you are satisfied with the first step carefully analyse with your ears (and spectral analyzer) where the sound as to be corrected, Listen to great sounding records you like and try to see how your mix compare, take a breath 5min then try to understand what kind of processing going thru the reference mix. 3: Check for tuts about mixing, eqing, compressing...In the web, better to look at commercial tuts, they are so many wankers doing tuts who are def, unexperienced and some are mythomaniacs...That said is not real for most free stuff but it can save you from mistakes at the begging.
Hope it helps!
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