Yo wassup guys. I was checking out this walkthrough (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwLkKJamgpk) of one of Kompany's tracks showing how he mixed it and everything and I was surprised at some of the techniques he was using and wanted to get some of your thoughts on it.
The biggest thing I noticed was that every channel and effect rack is clipping like crazy. You can see his master is completely slammed into the red every time he plays the full track. How does the entire track not sound like shit with all that clipping? Any time my meters start going red I can hear all sorts of distortion but if you listen to the final version of the track on Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/electrostepnetwork/backlash_esn?in=kompanymusic/sets/backlash it still sounds incredibly clean and loud, super compressed, but loud.
Obviously he could have sent this track out to be mixed/mastered by someone else but even still theres absolutely no headroom to work with.
The second biggest thing I noticed was that he sends EVERYTHING to a stereo imager. I've always heard to leave everything below 150 or so in mono for many reasons but it works great on the final version of this song.
Finally, I can never figure out why my tracks never match the loudness of others on Soundcloud so I went and tried some of these techniques on the current track I'm working on. When I exported the track the master meter was fully red but it ended up sounding great and way louder than I can normally get on Soundcloud. Is the secret to getting loud tracks on Soundcloud as simple as clipping the shit out of it?
I'd love to hear your opinions, if you think this is a good way to mix, if any of you mix this way, and whatnot. Is there a way to compete with the loudness of tracks like these on Soundcloud without blowing your meters up?
Broad questions and topics I know but curious to hear your thoughts
