| Most Important Mix Trick You Have Learned
What is the most important mix trick you all have learned and the ways to achieve it mixing in the box?
Personally, would have to say running the channel levels low, ie hitting only in the green, with a really low -18 to -15 stereo bus ouput. I trim all my channels prefader to -8 to compensate for any innacuracies in metering in the channels and plugins. From what i have read on this board in another thread, the architecture of most daw sequencer platforms supports 32 bit, but when u sum all your channels, although you might not be maxing out this headroom, the end result sum of the channels has to be downsampled to 24 bit to support the dac of the soundcard. What can result are rounding errors which results in a less defined stereo field and a muddier bottom end (especially the low mid). I tried this trick and it made a world of difference in my mixes. I make up the gain on the stereo bus with the limiter. Cause the channels have already been summed, the added gain you make at this stage doesn't effect anything perceptively.
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