Some tips that you might find useful and FL Tips

illustrativesound · Post by **illustrativesound** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:31 pm

...I tend to bounce to mp3, then open into Audacity to employ a fade out, cant seem to achieve that in FL, so kinda have to. Any other way of doing so, without so much compression?

also, tried to export to WAV and re-open in FL, but it kept topping out and stopping during the WAV sample of my finished track... bit odd!?!?

Disco Nutter · Post by **Disco Nutter** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:45 pm

CRYPTIC wrote:ctrl + s

The best tip in the world

Some good stuff there docwra!

ctrl + n is better, believe me. You would never want to find out your newest heviest tune's file is... corrupted.

Draw back is you end up with a lot of files but you can always go back if you fucked up real nice with the latest version.

relik · Post by **relik** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:48 pm

IllustrativeSound wrote:...I tend to bounce to mp3, then open into Audacity to employ a fade out, cant seem to achieve that in FL, so kinda have to. Any other way of doing so, without so much compression?

Just create an automation clip for the master channel volume in FL and fade it out.

illustrativesound · Post by **illustrativesound** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:04 pm

cheers, thats all sorted now. One more query, how do I go about setting a volume limit after finishing and mastering, like how do I ensure that all my tracks are the same volume. I tried setting each on to the same compressor DB amount but they didnt come out the same,....

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docwra · Post by **docwra** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 9:09 pm

by using your ears

illustrativesound · Post by **illustrativesound** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:54 am

Docwra wrote:by using your ears

oh... well does anyone have a link so I can download that plugin!?

amisane · Post by **amisane** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:16 pm

Just play the heaviest part of your tune and see where the VU meter peaks. If it's constantly running into the red turn that shit down. (
Unless you particularly like having tunes with no dynamics that sound flat and fatiguing.) I usually try to get my tracks peaking at about -2 to -4, although a lot of people would say that is still too loud.

The benefit to this is that you can turn the volume on your stereo, or the club system up more and the tune will it so much harder. I can't stress enough how much better it sounds.

Also, you could load your track into Audacity or Audition or something. If it looks like a solid block it's far too loud.

I like the tip about Smart Disable - wasn't aware of that. What are the drawbacks to using this option?

docwra · Post by **docwra** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:15 pm

no draw backs. It just disables the plug in when it is not in use

amisane · Post by **amisane** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:49 pm

Having asked about Smart Disable on a different forum, the only thing is that it kills plugins four seconds after the input signal for that channel goes dead, so it can prematurely kill delays and reverbs.

Nice feature though, thanks again for bringing it to light!

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