Saturday, April 11, 2009
quick tip 3: analyzer
What's an analyzer you say? Well, it's my new best friend. An analyzer gives you a display of your mix in terms of the relative intensity of frequency distribution. I downloaded mine for free, as there are numerous free analyser plugins out there, even for my RTAS Mac environment. You open across your master fader, and check out what your mix "looks" like in terms of frequncy strength. For me this opened up a whole new way of seeing my mixes. The best thing to do is bring a professional mix into your session, solo it, open an analyzer on it, and see what's happening. For me, I realized that my mixes were, more often than not, too bass heavy. Seeing the giant bass bulge pulsing along with the music, and noticing how much more constrained that same spectrum was on numerous professional mixes motivated me to take a whole new approach to mastering. Now I keep a very close eye on my low end, and work to use my multiband compressor and EQ to keep it under control. I noticed an immediate improvement in my mixes, and that was just in the low end.
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Lo Frequency boost is a common mistake in mixes that I have a constant battle with clients over. I try to explain to them that the bass they want will result from boosts on PLAYBACK at their end, and should not be part of the actual mix since it will muddle up the sound.
ReplyDeleteAlas, some insist on what they want to hear, as opposed to what constitutes a good mix. The fact that many suffer from hearing loss due to listening to levels way in excess of safe adds yet another complication.
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Keep the levels smooth and balanced
The Mad Soundman
http://amssound.com
im sorry,i wanna know what kind of effect or plug we should use to record vocal? and do we use it after or before recording?
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