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Originally Posted by Jesse Skeens  Agree with Lagerfeldt here.. Sounds like you might be over limiting the master buss due to the mixdown not being as efficient as it could be. As you noted the volume in a lot of mastered mixes goes down 3-5db in breakdowns. So this means that if you just overlimit a few db too much, which can easily be done when trying to 'brute force' the track, then you'll end up with the type of waveform that you're talking about here.
Also agree to shoot for only a few db of limiting on the master, anymore and there's problems that should be dealt with in the mix.
Also go through all your channels looking for sub freqs that don't need to be there. that's probably one of the most common errors I come across and can easily eat up headroom causing the comps/limiters to work too hard. |
with the last 2-3 tracks i've got way better results...very happy about it.
before bumpin' into gearsluts some weeks ago (taught me SO much..esp. about digital stuff!) i had no clue about going to "hot" on the individual channels and about the summing process since i worked with hardware all my life and just started about 2 years ago going digi only.
now my master buss is never too packed and without any process max at -5dB. i never put a limiter on the mixbuss (just using the airwindows classic channel for soft warming and very very soft compression at max. -2dB GR)
and also i usually cut low ends on every channel even if the sound seems to not be bassy at all.
i guess my problem was not to make a sort of surgical "taking away frequencies" (esp. being carefull on the higher ends since they easily can be emphasized when limiting) in combination with the limiting/mastering process.
now i'm much more happy and the waveform looks just nice on the last track(s) i worked on!
thanks for the answers!
