Learn a quick process for measuring and adjusting the volume of your mix to make a great-sounding track, without losing your mind. Free channel strip mixitecture.gu...
this deserves a lot more views, everyone wants to learn this stuff in 5 minutes, but clearly is something that deserves a lot of hours to really understand, you were so clear thanks a lot!
I had learned in the past that you should keep your levels going into signal processors at -18dB, not close to zero. The explanation was that this was the optimal level for old analog gear, and digital simulations of older gear was likewise optimized for this level. I like what you said about maximizing the high signal to noise ratio, and that makes sense to me. In the digital world, it doesn’t make sense to me to reduce the dynamic range of a signal, because you want to be able to use all 16 (or 24) bits to reduce digital aliasing when increasing the gain later down the mixing path. So, what’s the real story? Are effects plugins optimized for -18dB, or is that horse pocky and should you aim for getting closer to 0 PS. The guys on The Mastering Show podcast say that you should really aim for -2 to -1.5 dB to leave some headroom for mixing and mastering engineers.
This process makes the most sense to me as well. But I wonder if having the signals close to 0db before bringing the faders done will cause problems when mastering a song, or should the headroom on the master channel prevent that?
leave a generous amount of headroom when recording. peak level -9db more or less. you can always turn it up later... but you can't repair a burnt recording that got recorded with clipping and distortion at input
Hey, once you've completed the gain-staging process and let's say you wish to add an echo effect to the sound, would you need to compensate for the additional gain by lowering the output gain on the echo plugin?
There is a M4L device that is called volume compensator, i think it’s free and it’s purpose is to maintain che same level of an instrument after you use # effect , look it up
I made that as a custom rack. You can get this channel strip FX unit from the Free Presets section of my site: courses.mixitecture.com/products/courses/view/91 sign up, go to Free Presets and look under Mix Tools. Thanks for watching!
this deserves a lot more views, everyone wants to learn this stuff in 5 minutes, but clearly is something that deserves a lot of hours to really understand, you were so clear thanks a lot!
Thank you for the time and effort you put in for the group. This really helps.
glad to hear that :)
I am very happy now
THE ONE I NEEDED. THANK YOU .
This is great! Thanks! I've got some questions but I'll post them in the FB group in the comments for the post for this.
cool, thanks Chris. see you in the group
Great video tutorial. Many thanks, Steve. Where would I be able to download the channel strip that you used? Thank you again.
So good, thanks
Great stuff! Thanks so much for this video! How to get the free channel strip?
Thanks! here's the link for my Mix InfoPack and the channel strip.
store.mixitecture.com/l/mix-prep
I had learned in the past that you should keep your levels going into signal processors at -18dB, not close to zero. The explanation was that this was the optimal level for old analog gear, and digital simulations of older gear was likewise optimized for this level.
I like what you said about maximizing the high signal to noise ratio, and that makes sense to me. In the digital world, it doesn’t make sense to me to reduce the dynamic range of a signal, because you want to be able to use all 16 (or 24) bits to reduce digital aliasing when increasing the gain later down the mixing path.
So, what’s the real story? Are effects plugins optimized for -18dB, or is that horse pocky and should you aim for getting closer to 0
PS. The guys on The Mastering Show podcast say that you should really aim for -2 to -1.5 dB to leave some headroom for mixing and mastering engineers.
This process makes the most sense to me as well. But I wonder if having the signals close to 0db before bringing the faders done will cause problems when mastering a song, or should the headroom on the master channel prevent that?
Thanks, this is really helpful - if I am recording a hardware synth into Ableton would peak input level should I be aiming for?
leave a generous amount of headroom when recording. peak level -9db more or less. you can always turn it up later... but you can't repair a burnt recording that got recorded with clipping and distortion at input
@@steveknots514 many thanks
Hey, once you've completed the gain-staging process and let's say you wish to add an echo effect to the sound, would you need to compensate for the additional gain by lowering the output gain on the echo plugin?
There is a M4L device that is called volume compensator, i think it’s free and it’s purpose is to maintain che same level of an instrument after you use # effect , look it up
@@boymatmat Amazing, thanks!
yes. you always need to measure gain after every device you add
@@steveknots514 Thanks Steve, great video explained everything I needed to know.
Where is this gain stage plugin on your page, I see a bunch but not this specific one.
I made that as a custom rack. You can get this channel strip FX unit from the Free Presets section of my site: courses.mixitecture.com/products/courses/view/91
sign up, go to Free Presets and look under Mix Tools. Thanks for watching!