So how did we do it 10-15 years ago? Has everyone gone deaf or something?
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Originally Posted by chris carter  Not to defend insanely loud, but.... Regular folks don't listen in studios. Take a mix that is quiter and see how much fun you have cranking the volume up on a cheap boombox or computer speakers. Either you have the volume knob all the way up and you still want more volume, or you get the volume knob 3/4 of the way up and the poor little amp in the thing is sucking all the life out of the music trying to keep up. I know engineers like to say, "just turn it up stupid!", but it's not quite that simple in regular-people land.
That said, part of mixing most commercial genres is knowing how to a) make a mix SOUND big and loud and b) make a mix that will withstand the limiting in mastering without falling to pieces. I used to bitch and moan about what the limiter did to my mixes... that was back when I sucked LOL. Now, no worries. So either I'm really good at mixing now, or I'm really deaf.... |