This is a pretty noob question but it's something I've always had a problem with. Most of my mixes clip a lot (or at least the waveform is; its pretty much a full bar) because I have the volume high. The problem though is that when I turn the volume down, the mix is super quiet. I'm guessing I should use a lot of compression? The thing is that I don't want it to sound too compressed, and using too much compression makes it clip even more). So basically how can I raise the volume of a mix and make it sound in your face while avoiding clipping?
Raising volume without clipping
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GarethSE
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turn the mix down, turn speakers up while mixing
then get the tracks mastered and THEN deal with volume.
2 instances of gClip, one taking off a little bit, and one being a bit more liberal. clamp down til you can hear audible clipping, then ease off until you cant, then ease off a little bit more (there was a post here ages ago about some guy sitting in on a mastering session of some of his mixes in a PROEPR listening environment and all this inaudible clipping was all of a sudden audible, so just take it easy with the clipping like)
maybe some mild compression with a fast attack, low ratio and a small (-1, maybe -2) amount of GR.
maybe clip again
put a limiter on and turn it up slowly and carefully listening for how it affects the audio.
should be able to get -10db RMS fairly transparently that way.
then get the tracks mastered and THEN deal with volume.
2 instances of gClip, one taking off a little bit, and one being a bit more liberal. clamp down til you can hear audible clipping, then ease off until you cant, then ease off a little bit more (there was a post here ages ago about some guy sitting in on a mastering session of some of his mixes in a PROEPR listening environment and all this inaudible clipping was all of a sudden audible, so just take it easy with the clipping like)
maybe some mild compression with a fast attack, low ratio and a small (-1, maybe -2) amount of GR.
maybe clip again
put a limiter on and turn it up slowly and carefully listening for how it affects the audio.
should be able to get -10db RMS fairly transparently that way.
Trevoire520
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Yep, all down to doing little bits of compression/clipping/limiting to get your volume up.
Search for a thread called "getting your loudness" lots of good info in there.
Search for a thread called "getting your loudness" lots of good info in there.
P-E
Munchkin
GClip and Elephant do wonders for my mixes and most importantly controlling my guitar levels properly.
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