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rookie0ne	Date: October 17, 2005 @ 12:10 PM Don't know if this belongs in this forum but I couldn't find any other category this would fit in. I need some advice about volumes, EQ and stuff with my song (Fuzzy Logic). I recorded the guitars through my amp directly to the comp (no mikes involved). Give it a listen - the sound of the rhythm guitars just sucks ass. Can somebody give me some advice what volumes or frequencies should I turn up or down? And general tips about volumes, mixing and stuff?
pog	Date: October 17, 2005 @ 6:24 PM The main rhythm section seems fine, as far as levels go, but you could add some more bite to it by adding some more higher frequencies and maybe a touch more low mids for extra crunch. The lead guitar is far too quiet... treat them like any lead instrument that uses single notes (lead vocal, lead guitar, any solo instrument, etc.)... it should be right up front. You may wish to pan one lead track slightly right and one slightly left also. You may wish to add a tiny bit of reverb to the snare drum to create some extra depth... up to you. The whole track is clipping a lot, so mastering is needed... you should never clip with digital media... even though it sounds okay, it is still clipping far too much. I use T-racks for final mastering, but any compressor/e.q. combination is a good idea once you have a mixdown that you're happy with, dial your stereo (monitors) to flat and make a remix of that wav file. Hope this helps.
rookie0ne	Date: October 18, 2005 @ 3:13 PM Thanks man, it's really appreciated! I noticed that Sonar has this nice feature of showing the peak of the signal in each track. The number turns red whenever it's over 0 dB - I had most of the tracks like this. I played with the volumes a bit so that the peaks don't exceed the limit. I turned up the volume of the lead guitars and separated the stereo channels a fair bit more (was 24%L 24%R, now it's 50%-50%). I used another drumkit as this one has a crappy snare that sounds flat no matter what effects I put it through. Can you hear it's clipping or you used some tool for this? I tried using compressor, but it decreases the volume very much. Erm... What is a T-rack? All this stuff is totally new to me, please put up with me.
rookie0ne	Date: October 18, 2005 @ 3:14 PM Oh, yeah, T-racks is a program. Well, I've got WaveLab, I'll see what is that software capable of.
woodhead	Date: October 18, 2005 @ 8:55 PM Pog is wealth on knowledge and def knows what he is talking about. The only thing I would do with this is eq the snare a bit in the mid section, and add a tad on the kick around 4k for a little more punch. and add some compresion if you have not already done so (kick and snare both) as for the guitars, they could use a bit of Eq as well, but you must remember when you go to EQ, that you need to leave room for other insruments to breath as well. Def do some mastering after it alwasy helps, even a compresion rate of 11.1 will do wonders ( but not tomuch then it sounds compressed and you dont want that, Also a slight limiter in the mastering as well will help control the clipping. And last but not least, ifyou have an amp usethe torecord with, you will get a better sound with an amp than you will get with software, (unless you are a royal bad butt like tsand) IMO only.
rookie0ne	Date: October 20, 2005 @ 9:29 AM Yeah, I know that and I really appreciate the advice of both of you. I've been playing around with WaveLab for a while but can't seem to get much better results. The song still clips a lot. This boost at 4kHz was a point-blank shot, the kick is no longer suppressed! I'm off tring to learn a bit of mastering then.
woodhead	Date: October 22, 2005 @ 7:11 PM I've been playing around with WaveLab for a while but can't seem to get much better results. The song still clips a lot. IS it possible for you to run sub mixes? IN wave lab can you tell the computer to drop the decible levels as a group, I can do this in Sonar so am wondering if you have that ability in Wave lab. Rookie one, send me a not and well will discuss this some more

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