On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 09:50:35AM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:42:25PM -1000, david wrote: > > 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! > > > > Very nice. I can however hear the compression pumping, i.e. on the kick drum. Maybe you were going for that sound (i.e. DJ rare-groove vynil), but it sounds really prominent to me. Maybe it's bleed-through from the kick to other tracks which have compression on them which is causing that effect. I like the creative use of reverb in the first verse. > > I felt like I wanted to hear the choruses and bridge "leaned into" a bit more, and have the dynamics pick up there. > > Your singer has a fascinating and unique voice; reminds me a bit of the singer from Portishead, but has her own take on it. > Thanks for the really kind words. This recording was not done on Linux though (hence the OT) and I had nothing to do with the mixing/mastering process - we paid a studio to do it for us as none of us had access to protools. I just played bass! Let's hope my low-budget linux-based approach can get close! :) Interesting what you say about Candice's voice - someone else said that about Portishead. I'm still puzzling about what genre we fit into though.. Still that's probably a good thing! James _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
