Like big kick drums? Hey, so do I!
This one is very similar to last week’s snare trick. But instead of making the snare stand out, we’re looking to add some boooot-ay to the kick.
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Jeffro is a recovering gear-aholic who spends somewhere between 2 and 300 hours per week mixing music. Going strong in the studio world since 1999, he loves long walks on the beach, baskets full of puppies, and writing in the 3rd person. 
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Love your page Jeffro, love the way you teach and how you make serious improvements in the tracks you receive. I’ve searched all over this site what you’ve written about mixing through a limiter and I feel there’s still much more to be said. Could you please write a little more about it? All the basics, all the… I don’t know, some kind of “mixing through a limiter for dummies” article.
I’m sure you’d make more than one reader happy 🙂
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Thanks so much for reading/watching!
Mixing through a limiter is pretty straightforward really. I typically will have a couple of the lovely Massey 2007 limiters set up. Though I’m not brickwalling them, I do let each shave off a db or two. Towards the end of the mix I may lower the threshold to bring up the volume.
In reality, I’m just treating them like a volume knob.
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What would you recommend doing with mixes that sound over saturated?
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Hm, I’m not sure I fully get what you mean. Do you mean if the tracks are already a bit distorted?
Unfortunately once a track is saturated, there isn’t any going back!
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No like having a lot of tracks. After trying to “emulate” the reference track the volume has come too high that now it all sounds saturated. I was thinking if fading some tracks.
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Ah, I see. Well, just turn the tracks down! 😉
It sounds like you’re just slamming into digital 0. There’s no need to have your faders all at unity. Group them together and pull them all way down and start from there.
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Great tip! Thank you 🙂
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