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Sound Design / Post Processing Tips
« on: January 07, 2016, 02:13:35 am »
One problem of alot of beginners i think is how to do post processing of synths. Maybe post here some of your post processing tips?
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Andrew Bayer. He's probably my favorite artist right now, his last album was i n c r e d i b l e. (ex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-seot5RyeX8 / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP47nuuOU_I)
I personally use a Subpac to mix my low end with Audio Technica ATH-M50 headphones. I used to have a subwoofer as part of my set up but that just caused a lot of issues from poor room acoustics. Your 8" monitors may be too large for your room as well since they have a frequency response down to 35 Hz. (I use 5" monitors since I'm in a small room).
For the kick/bass relationship, tuning your kick to the key of the track will help clear up a lot of things. I also tend to keep my kick short, so I don't have two big sub elements fighting for space.
Using a dedicated sub to play under 100-120 hz will clean up your low end a lot. Eq'ing your leads and chords properly so the mid-bass can sit between the sub and leads/chords is super important too!
I've been wondering about this a lot with my recent productions....is this the general school of thought? I find that it's definitely easier to control low-end dynamics when I have just my simple sine or triangle wave cutoff around 100hz and nothing else but the kick is allowed down there, and then the energy of the "bass" in the track comes from a mid-bass around 100-500hz which has the sub either cut out of it or didnt exist originally.
Is this how most people do their bass or is there some merit to the alternative: having just one bass patch that has a sub oscillator carrying the low end?
You would never guess by my productions but im using Rokit 8's
often times my low end bass sits at around 25-50hz, pretty low. at that frequency it can come across being quiet. How do i make a frequency this low be known in the mix without being overwhelming?