levels too low

[NuEra]

It does, but I'm sure it will make more sense after I see the videos too.

[NuEra]

You'll see I dont spend a whole lot of time setting stuff up its more about just keeping the flow and getting the track finished, in other words not getting tied up into too much detail -- especially early on.

ok, but didnt you also teach me about starting out just working on a groove and getting it just right (even if it takes a couple of days) before moving onto arrangement?

[admin]

ok, but didnt you also teach me about starting out just working on a groove and getting it just right (even if it takes a couple of days) before moving onto arrangement?

Yeah when I mean setting stuff up I meant mixing wise. The way I show in the vids is the same as I taught you as far as going from loop to arrange. I do some premixing along the way and then polish the mix at the very end.

But signal flow wise things stay pretty simple and slowly get built upon.

[NuEra]

Looking forward to the course even more then!

Maybe I will end up ditching my massive, processor sucking, extreme latency, template

[admin]

They are uploading now, took all weekend to edit, producing these took a bit longer than I thought.. I think overall there is just over 5 hours of videos for this initial set.

[Bitfiend]

i thought i'd read in a couple different places the common practice (for lack of a better term) or maybe best practices is to run the faders no higher than -6 db? or is that just when recording an actually audio signal in?

[admin]

Recording should be about -18db average with a few peaks going up to -6db.

Internally mixing though I usually like the kick and snare to be a bit lower than 0 so when they mix at the master buss you are around 0db total. But then after compression and limiting you might have some more room to jack them up from there.

As per a question from Andrew I'll do a vid on proper gain structure especially relating to compressors so that there arent big level differences and problems going on.

Will start recording new ones tomorrow.

[NuEra]

nice, ive been having better luck lately from when i first started this thread. but looking forward to the updated vid as this is still an area im looking for improvement

[admin]

It's definitely one of the trickier aspects of mixing, with so many gain stages and proccessing its easy to get things out of control.