back in the day...

[Ged Leitch]

Hi Earle, just was wondering how mastering engineers used to deal with peaky low end on mixes, without using multiband compression?
say like they have a mix which is fine except the kick and bass gtr are jumping out too much.
how would they have handled that without a multiband?
would they have used a compressor with a sidechain and equalised the sidechain to control the low end? then another compressor to handle the whole mix?
cheers.

[zumbido]

Probably, they'd send it back to be remixed.

For me, that is the best use of Har-Bal.

[har-bal]

Hi Earle, just was wondering how mastering engineers used to deal with peaky low end on mixes, without using multiband compression?
say like they have a mix which is fine except the kick and bass gtr are jumping out too much.
how would they have handled that without a multiband?
would they have used a compressor with a sidechain and equalised the sidechain to control the low end? then another compressor to handle the whole mix?
cheers.

Ged

Tape had a natural saturation which was comparable to todays term called compression. The wave tips would end up rounded instead of flat topped. The end result was a very pleasing sound to the ear. It would somehow just mesh all the sounds together. The overral sound was fantastic.

You can read more here http://ipsologic.com/briefs/tape_saturation.html

Earle

[Ged Leitch]

Hi Earle, just was wondering how mastering engineers used to deal with peaky low end on mixes, without using multiband compression?
say like they have a mix which is fine except the kick and bass gtr are jumping out too much.
how would they have handled that without a multiband?
would they have used a compressor with a sidechain and equalised the sidechain to control the low end? then another compressor to handle the whole mix?
cheers.

Ged

Tape had a natural saturation which was comparable to todays term called compression. The wave tips would end up rounded instead of flat topped. The end result was a very pleasing sound to the ear. It would somehow just mesh all the sounds together. The overral sound was fantastic.

You can read more here http://ipsologic.com/briefs/tape_saturation.html

Earle

Earle, your a genius!
cheers for the link mate.