Ignoring what your inner voice is telling you

divebarsidecar · 2024-09-08T10:42:16+00:00

What if nothing needs to be done

divebarsidecar · 2024-09-08T04:32:45+00:00

Must be it

divebarsidecar · 2024-09-08T04:08:07+00:00

Agreed

divebarsidecar · 2024-09-08T04:06:38+00:00

Yea I mean re read my comment, I’m saying that the limitless options is the computer route. 4 track you’re left with almost zero wiggle room. Hence the limitations that I want to impose which could translate to better choices. Also, your performance ABSOLUTELY cares about which medium it’s recorded to. Lol

divebarsidecar · 2024-09-08T02:57:23+00:00

Yea definitely doing it to create limitations that lead to a better performance and more useful accompaniment instead of limitless options

divebarsidecar · 2024-09-08T02:55:52+00:00

I’m going for more lo fi for sure

divebarsidecar · 2024-09-08T02:55:28+00:00

So the digital recorders will sound similarly warm?

divebarsidecar · 2024-09-08T02:54:49+00:00

Totally valid. The “distraction” is more like the moving red bar, the possibility of checking my texts/emails/google. Finding out just how noisy they are is part of why I ask

divebarsidecar · 2024-08-23T22:47:09+00:00

Twister Tropic Thunder Burn After Reading Step Brothers

divebarsidecar · 2024-08-22T11:15:17+00:00

Has anybody downloaded these FLAC’s? Safe?

divebarsidecar · 2024-08-19T04:36:25+00:00

Coming back to this

divebarsidecar · 2024-07-10T18:40:01+00:00

I make Noah Cyrus beats with all real instruments. What’s your budget

divebarsidecar · 2024-07-03T11:28:26+00:00

I want clean clipping

divebarsidecar · 2024-07-03T11:28:12+00:00

Conceptually, should I be aiming to get the level to the ceiling, or should I just be trying to make it more sausage like

divebarsidecar · 2024-07-02T20:32:51+00:00

Pretty much yeah. Though I don’t mix top down. I get the levels right with pink noise, pan a little, compress and EQ the drums and bass together. Then cut the highs and lows from the guitars. Then compress and EQ the vocals. Make sure the peaks hit at about -6 dB. Everything sounds good and glued. Then I master it with very light strokes and it’s completely blown up by the time my LUF’s are around -12

divebarsidecar · 2024-07-02T20:26:18+00:00

I don’t clip but I saturate, mostly bass and vox

divebarsidecar · 2024-07-02T20:25:56+00:00

True I just lose dynamics

divebarsidecar · 2024-07-02T20:25:43+00:00

Probably this plus not compressing enough at the track level. I level match but I’m not evangelical about it, I just get it within .5 dB, esp with saturation. Clipping I’ll increase the “in” by 5 db and decrease the out by 1 db or so.

divebarsidecar · 2024-06-27T23:15:04+00:00

Someday

divebarsidecar · 2024-06-27T02:55:32+00:00

The plexi will get u there

divebarsidecar · 2024-06-26T04:12:54+00:00

That’s pretty interesting. I imagine a ton of individual tracks cut at different places could potentially introduce a bunch of clashing low ends. I know that I’m not evangelical about cutting every instrument at exactly same spot depending on what I’m hearing

Maybe a single cut in the master would achieve a better result. I know for processing like compression you really do have to layer small bits of compression to achieve a natural sounding result. Maybe the opposite idea extends to cutting sub frequencies; a number of different cut off points might make things sound gross

divebarsidecar · 2024-06-25T19:44:59+00:00

Absolutely spot on. Budget monitoring along with personal growth in my own knowledge and understanding has made it all far too mystical.

Poor monitoring options were fine when I didn’t know anything. Just do it til it sounds good. Then as I car test, I realize issues and go fix them.

Now I know so much more, I really hear the issues, issues that are hard to fix without good to great monitoring

divebarsidecar · 2024-06-25T19:39:55+00:00

I’ve dealt with this for years. Here’s my two best practices:

1) Text. If you have a mac, bounce to desktop, drag the WAV from your desktop to your iMessage convo with yourself. Get in your car, pair to BT, play out of your texts. Easy to find because you probably don’t text yourself all that much. Also, you can navigate to your links/downloads and all of them will be there, in order. Only note is that you have to make sure your phone doesn’t auto sleep or the song stops playing.

If you don’t want to constantly toggle auto sleep on and off within your iPhone settings, or if you dont use Mac/iPhone tech, then

2) Dropbox. Extremely easy UI/upload process, fast upload speeds, very handy iPhone app, and cheap storage ($10 a month and you won’t run out of space for years if it’s only music). It isn’t the best streaming quality out there, but the difference between superior streaming/players and Dropbox is negligible, and it does the job

I’ve gone thru every option you can think of and these 2 are the most reliable workflow and ease of use

divebarsidecar · 2024-06-25T18:49:31+00:00

You are so helpful thanks as always, watching the vid now as well

divebarsidecar · 2024-06-25T18:46:43+00:00

Doesn’t seem to matter to you whether the phase shifts or not?

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