U BETTER BE SCARED just kidding dude. if you're finding distortion to be too harsh and filthy, try using overdrive instead, or perhaps resample your bassline with very subtle amounts of distortion for warmth. to bring out a cleaner sound you might wanna try frequency splitting your bassline and usin...

symmetricalsounds wrote:for ableton users frost skin = /thread

that shitll burn your eyeballs out doing long night sessions. personally i think the "puff power" skin is the one

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so im a couple weeks away from having saved enough money to buy a decent pair of monitors......right now i'm doing my head in trying to decide between the Yamaha HS80m, the Dynaudio BM5a, and the Adam A7. Unfortunately I'm gonna have to drive about 4-5 hours to the nearest audio shop to check them o...

bigger. when im working in a daw i like to have the program full screen. more power to you if you can work like that!

not being able to resize the program/racks = huge fail for reason

Saw some videos last night that opened my eyes a lot to the stereo field - something I've never bothered with much outside of panning hats a bit, and using auto-pan and ping pong delay in Ableton. I've only been producing for a couple months, so bare with me - I realize this is all common practice f...

i think the song is called 'jungle boogie' or something. tune had a big groovy bassline, morphing/snarling sounds before the drop...

*edit - nevermind, i found it.

so much damn moaning in this thread. real good look guys.

Well if you've got them all mixed down to a stereo file, normalize to -.2 or something and bounce. It's not really that big of a concern if it's being played on a decent system, an extra 3 dB isn't that much louder. sorry man i'm a bit confused when you say normalize. do you mean use the "norm...

by mix i mean like a dj mix (mastered tunes edited together) for a friend to play at an event, and i'm just trying to figure out the best way to go about setting volume levels. since the songs i mixed are already mastered and radio friendly songs, does the whole aim for headroom go out the window si...

question about ableton's spectrum plugin:

why is it that no matter how loud i have the volume in ableton, spectrum never reads over -12db? how are you supposed to use this thing mix down?

So I recently finished a mix of tunes for a friend, and since I'm being paid quite well for it I'm looking for some advice on mixing down and exporting. The songs have all been mastered and I've been using Voxengo Span to monitor the audio spectrum inside Live. Most of the songs seem to be peaking j...

Very crude but hopefully you get the idea... Click me! http://i.imgur.com/xdD9ls.jpg hah, didn't realize you wrote in explanations to the side. thought it was just a visual representation....guess i should've clicked as per you telling me to do so :oops: either way thanks man i appresh you helping

Right I've tried to make it as simple as possible: LOW SHELF / HI SHELF = Increase or decrease volume of selected frequency LOW CUT = Completely remove all sound below selected frequency HI CUT = Completely remove all sound above selected frequency Basically, if you want to say... give a guitar sam...

tavravlavish wrote:

Ldizzy wrote:u could also prolly stick it to a sound and play with it for a couple minutes.

turn all the knobs. do A/Bs

could help too...

eh, already did this and heard a slight difference, but didn't walk out of the experience any the wiser as far as technical understanding goes. but thanks anyway

so one would use a cut (rather than shelf) if you wanted SOME frequencies to come thru either above or below the cutoff (relative to which type of cut you're using)? and if a shelf affects all frequencies above or below the cutoff at the same db, wouldn't it better to use a shelf for getting rid of,...

holla holla holla if you would be so kind to post some screen shots, or at least elaborate a bit more, that would be wicked

i guess the main thing i'm having trouble getting my head around is when and why would you use one over the other?

thanks for your help 3za!

The answer can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equalization yeah, i've already read that. "A pass filter attenuates either high or low frequencies while allowing other frequencies to pass unfiltered. Shelving-type equalizers increase or attenuate the level of a wide range of frequen...