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So, loudness on a song
really depends on the song.
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Some songs aren't meant
to be crazy loud. Some songs are.
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When I'm doing a record like this,
it's more of a dance record.
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Loudness is kind of key,
so I'm listening to other records
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that might be out just
to reference other things.
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Or I might just monitor to see the feel
of the song, like trusting my instincts
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once again, just listening
to where things are.
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And if they need to be brought up,
I'll bring them up.
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A lot of times, it's
really just trusting my ears.
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As far as levels are concerned,
when I'm printing, obviously,
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I don't print hot like that,
but I try to give the mastering engineer
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minus four dB to work with,
three to four dB,
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so then it sounds very similar
to my reference.
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So, when he gets it,
there's not much that he has to do.
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And that's basically it as far as
loudness is concerned for me.
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Four to six dB,
I would say, yeah.
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I'm just monitoring through that to give
it a feel, and then I'll take it off.
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And I'll monitor it very heavily
when I'm printing as well, and I'll AB it
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against my reference just to make
sure that even though it's a lot of level,
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I'll bring down my reference to balance it
out, but it still feels the same,
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because sometimes when
you put it through those things,
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it actually changes
the sound of the mix.
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And I try to keep it the same, even though
it's not going through that limiter.
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For me, as far as levels, as I'm mixing,
I'm monitoring through the limiter.
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But when I print,
I take the limiter off.
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I usually run the passes around
minus three, minus four,
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and I send it to
the mastering engineer.
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One of the great things is having a good
relationship with your mastering engineer,
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and so what I like to do is I monitor
my mixes after I send them over,
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and I'll AB them against my reference,
I'll AB them against the original ref,
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and I'll AB what I send over to him,
just to make sure it's loud.
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And usually he might send
me a couple of different versions,
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a louder version
or different EQs or whatever.
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But having a good relationship with your
mastering engineer always is a good thing,
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because a lot of times, you might
send a mix and you might not hear it,
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and your mix will sound
different than what you sent out.
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As far as levels, I just give them
something to work with,
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something where the song is close, very
close, and he doesn't have to do much,
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maybe some slight
EQ and leveling.
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But for the most part,
it's just really listening to what
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I sent out to make sure the process
is where it needs to be.
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Stargate sent me
over the track.
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The sounds they chose
sound pretty good,
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so I didn't have to do a whole
lot to them.
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They gave me a couple of kicks,
a snare, a snap, some claps,
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some hi-hats,
some crackling sounds.
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So I just blended
those together.
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I think I added
a little verb to the snare,
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and I think I used the
Valhalla Plate for that,
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just a short verb
to give it a little space.
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Nothing crazy.
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And then I run all my drums
through a Drum Bus.
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I don't really have anything on
the Drum Bus for this particular song.
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Sometimes I like to put
stuff on the Drum Bus.
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With this song, I didn't
really think it was necessary.
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So, we're running just a snare,
the kick and snare, and claps, snaps.
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Let's listen
to the drums.
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Got a little slight compression on this
kick, just give a little snap to it.
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And I've added a little bit
of 77, 80 Hertz,
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kind of a little roundness
to the bottom of the kick.
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Second kick is just
some slight compression
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because it's a less
toppy-sounding kick, so…
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We've got a punchy kick
and a lower-sounding kick.
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But this is the main kick number one,
so I got that in front.
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And then the snare.
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Added that slight reverb
which is the Valhalla Plate.
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And then the background,
they had this little loop.
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It's just kind of
an ambient loop.
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There's some
ambient noises.
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So, that's basically
the rhythm section.
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And then, as I'm listening to that,
I'm also playing with the vocal,
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just seeing how that feels versus the
vocal, the kind of energy they're giving.
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And then
I'll add in the bass.
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I'm just doing some compression
on there with the SSL, channel strip,
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little mid,
little low.
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I'm also using a slight bit
of chorusing on this bass
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to make it a little wider
in the track.
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I'm using this digital chorus setting
that I use on the EchoBoy,
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just kind of cool sound on the chorus
that I use for that track.
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Then on the elements
that are in the track.
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Like I said, there's not a lot
going on in the song,
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so the only other element that's playing
in this session is the chorus.
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There's two sets.
There's a low set.
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And there's a high set.
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So, everything
kind of fits together.
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This is the weight
that I added to the high keys.
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They had a little guitar in the song,
and I added a little verb to that as well.
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I used the little plate to just add
a little space to the song,
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get a little vibe
to the guitars.
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And for me, most of the time,
I'm just listening and blending,
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just kind of subtle changes,
maybe a little levels adjustment here,
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EQ adjustment here,
just making things fit.
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But in a song like this,
it's not a whole lot I have to make fit
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because a lot of the good
choices were already made
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as far as sonics
were concerned,
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so just enhancing each sound
and making it sound good and fit.
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