On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:12:54AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > James, > Welcome and best of luck with what you're doing. IMO his is > completely the right place to ask questions like this. > Thanks Mark! > 2) Learn to use busses and in general limit yourself to a single > reverb. Try to leave a LOT of headroom in your indivdual track > recordings as it will reduce the number of limiter and compressors you > find yourself using overall. Using multiple reverbs will eventually > lead to a muddy sound as every instrument starts acting like it's in a > different room. Busses are easy in Ardour, albiet FAR more capable > than they really should be. That said, you need them and once you > learn to use them for things like reverb you'll probably be better > off. > I had a quick mess around with a bus with TAP reverb, and only 1 reverb.. It gave the track a more "live" sound to my ears - more real maybe, but lacking some of the dynamics of a studio recording.. any idea where I am going wrong? How about compression? Is it OK to run 2 compressors in parallel like the C* and Satan Maximizer, or is it just a waste of resources? > way you want your mix to sound. You don't say much about music style, > which is cool, but I suggest that one answer doesn't fit Animal > Collective, Particle, McCoy Tyner and John Mayall, all being bands > I've listened to in depth this week. Maybe you're doing something > non-pop/rock and some sort of strange reverb setup makes it work. If > that's the case then by all means do WHATEVER works! Well, our first studio track, which was recorded by a student engineer in a semi-proper studio on protools, then mixed and mastered by a professional engineer is here: http://www.last.fm/music/kitten+cake mp3 here: http://drop.io/dont_call_her_baby (password: kc09) I would like to get a similar sound with our practice-room recordings mixed and mastered by me! .... not asking much! :) Any hints as to how I might approach that kind of sound would be very much appreciated! James _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
