James Stone wrote: > 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) That's a very nice sound. Good recording quality - very clean, nice separation between instruments. Duly added to the playlist! -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
