On Mon, 31 Mar 2014, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
Parallel arrangements have their place, e.g. for multiband compressors used for mastering. Regarding these you should be aware that such processing makes nonsense of whatever careful EQ you have done before. Multiband compression amounts an EQ that is changing all the time, and you usually have no idea of what exactly it is doing. If the mixing and mastering are done by the same person (as they usually are in our context), everything done in mastering could have been done better during the mix, e.g. by compressing tracks instead of the mix.
I have found this out from experience (already)... It didn't take very long :) The good thing is that the project I wrecked with overall changes has enough other defects in it to make it worth while redoing from scratch. I am looking forward to trying out Ardour 3 to do drum tracks from pads (my only choice right now). While I have been playing for a long time, my experience in recording is very recent. The cure is practice. I was quite a fan of midi when all I had was a few tracks of audio (I started on 4 and 8 track) and putting TC on one track allowed me to add lots of other tracks with a sequencer. It was fun, but I was just playing around. I am more serious now, if not truely professional.
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