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Mixing/Mastering / Whats the preferable way to create additional headroom?
« on: December 12, 2016, 07:12:05 pm »
I have a mix that I'm pretty happy with in terms of how the instruments relate to each other, and currently have around -3.5db of headroom on the loudest peaks, but I want to try to get that down to around -6 before bouncing the file for mastering. Is there a way to keep the relative levels the same but just pull everything down by 3db, and if so, how can I accomplish this in Ableton?Or is it preferable to go back to the drawing board and start re balancing levels from scratch?

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Mixing/Mastering / How do you get a big kick and bass without sacrificing the other instruments?
« on: December 02, 2016, 04:32:50 am »
Hey guys, just found this forum.

This is the biggest thing I can't figure out. Obviously, the kick and bass are the two most important elements in any electronic track. But to make them both loud and prominent, it seems I either need to have the rest of the track pretty empty or brickwall the shit out of the limiter.

But I know this is not the case, because most modern electronic music has a lot going on and the kick and bass are still powerful, and it doesn't seem like they're just high-passing everything else. Are most productions these days just generally very squashed? Or is there some sort of EQ method of balancing everything out? I thought you are supposed to have 3-4db of headroom during mixing?

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