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Earle, didnt your site used to have a list of all the gear you use?
i cant seem to find it.
Also have you tried out the Behringer Tube composer or Tube EQ ?
are they any good???

Hi Earle, you ever find yourself using parallel compression when mastering? it really works great on certain tracks, no squashing!!! Hello Ged Yes, I have heard of it but most folks usually use it on individual tracks during the mixdown phase. Are you asking whether this should be used across an en...

Mike, just checked out your site, it looks great mate, i actually share a similar interest in film scoring myself, but yet to have the opportunity to work on a "biggie" just got my diploma from the LA film music institute after 2 years of scoring in pro tools. Though obviously your a much ...

Commonly known as the "New York compression trick"... it's been used for ages by engineers all over the world, just under different names. I think I like the term 'parallel compression' better ! Seems to me you can acheive basically the same thing with a multi-band compressor - unless you...

Parallel compression works like this... you take a track(unprocessed) and mix in a duplicate of it which has been extremely compressed of most transients, and mix to taste. Commonly known as the "New York compression trick"... it's been used for ages by engineers all over the world, just ...

Hi Ged, Can you explain what parallel compression is? I'm not aware of the terminology and am curious to know what it is exactly. Regards, Paavo. Hey Paavo, how you doing? actually you will like this... as you know every comp is the same in how it works i.e it clamps down on transients and increase...

Hi Earle, you ever find yourself using parallel compression when mastering?
it really works great on certain tracks, no squashing!!!

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 use...

] the answer is quite simple, listen to it, judge it, then correct it if you think it needs it. Right. That's my point. So if you fix what "looks" wrong, and then listen, but that's not the problem, then what? Or if there are no obvious visual problems, then what? The visual thing just se...

The thing is, when I look at my tracks, they (for the most part) look fine, in fact better than some pro tracks, but they don't sound nearly as fine :( . There are no major peaks and valleys (widthwise or otherwise), but I'm sure that improvements could be made, but since it looks fine, i'm back to...

George wrote:]

George wrote: the question seems still to be, how do you know which peaks and valleys are right and which are wrong based on the visual if well recorded pro tracks have them too?

the answer is quite simple, listen to it, judge it, then correct it if you think it needs it.

Also regarding commercial tracks looking as if they need fixed... i too was confused when i loaded an old Prince track into harbal to find peaks and dips, i thought wait a minute, these guys are saying there should be none. But that was my mistake, as there should be no MAJOR peaks or dips i.e broad...

The advantage is this... Har bal is a high quality linear phase or minimum phase EQ it can be extremely precise or can be used in a general low Q way it will actually HELP your ears after a while due to the visual confirmation of the spectrum If your monitors are full range e.g 20hz to 20khz (or nea...

yep, matching IS useless, but thats why theres no "match" button on harbal. Harbal was never meant to be an EQ matching program, it's just an EQ. References are a guide, you'll notice on the commercial tracks most rock and pop stuff is balanced, yes there are plenty of peaks and dips but t...

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...