Good stuff, just one noob question. Are you rendering individual tracks with the emulation, and then pulling them back in the mix? Or are you applying the emulation to group buss's?
And did I read that right? Are you normalizing all the drum tracks in your project or just the stereo mix for the example?
I don't render each track individually in most cases, I just did in this bit here so you can heard the individual tracks. I bus out every type of different instrument, which is All Drums, Bass, All Guitars, and all Keys, and then a master bus, so 5 or 7 if I do quad tracked guitars becuase i like to split guitars 1 and 2 from 3 and 4 and then bring them back together in a master gutiar bus which then goes back.
I am weird, but I like to use the bus's to do the actualy volume mixing and overall effects. The effects I put on certain tracks are effects that trim up the sound to fit and cut in the mix and i do small fine tunning with volumes such as drums, but most of my finalizing volume and effects take place in the bus
Yes I normalize all the individual tracks, I have had the luck of being close to peaking at 0, but then foudn taht I didn't have the volume i needed after the fader was maxed out and I had input sensitive effects such as compression or some form of saturation, so I like getting all the signals as loud as possible. I would rather be too loud and have to turn down than not have enough volume.
Would it make more sense to add the tape sat/color first in the chain? I mean, if you are wanting increase the harmonic content of a track, wouldn't you want to do it on the source so the later plugs are effecting those added harmonics?
If you are refering to the trim eq and whatnot, that doesn't count becuase we are essentially trimming up the sound that we want to go into the satration. Other than some minor eq on the kick and snare and a low pass on the gutiars, everything in my mixes up until the master didn't have any eq. That though is actaully becuase I like to have the sound fixed and sounding good before I record it so I do minimal work possible. If it doesn't sound right, then redo it, don't expect the eq to work and if you do it my way (and the way many other great producers that I go it from) you won't have to worry about fixing issues that could have been fixed during the recording process. Anyway, the tape is getting practically raw inputs, but yes if yiou were going pre-digital old schooll, they used to record directly to tape and then send that to a SSL board that was hooked up to their monitors. The way I did it was the new school digtal/analog hybrid ITB and use the tape as a buffer in the later stages to get some warmth and other analog effects. Each way will have different effects, I was just demonstrating the way that is most commin in digital studios today that run digital out tracks through tape (keeping with the industrail standard)
Nice stuff! Have you been watching MILAR?
who?
EDIT: nvm, damn that seems like a pretty cool DVD. I should check it out.
