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back in the day...
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:47 am
by 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.
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 12:31 pm
by zumbido
Probably, they'd send it back to be remixed.
For me, that is the best use of Har-Bal.
Re: back in the day...
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 5:45 pm
by har-bal
Ged Leitch wrote: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
Re: back in the day...
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 6:46 pm
by Ged Leitch
har-bal wrote:Ged Leitch wrote: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.