[ddots-l] Re: 2 questions
- From: "Stacy Bleeks" <sbleeks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:36:33 -0500
Hi Nevil.
What i do to maintain the punchiness of a kick drum or guitar or whatever the
sound might be, is to ue integrity of the original sound though.
What do I know about integrity though? (smile)
se compression. i have fine tuned the compression settings for things like
vocals, kick drum, snares etc. and the right ratio of gating will have these
sounds fit nicely in the mix without having them sound to squished or
distorted. The right compression will make a kick drum sound warmer or
fluffier if you like. Too much though and it sounds like caca.
i remember an interview with Butch Vig (Nirvanna and Garbage producer). he
talked about using compression on the entire mix. He said something about this
technique makes his stuff sound better for peeps listening to his stuff with a
boom box. I think he was half joking but it still makes sense at the same time.
As for the noisiness. I guess you could E Q some of it out if you zoned in on
the right frequencies. or, you could use something like GoldWave which has
some noise reduction effects that I have used with some success in the past.
Too much noise reduction could compromise th
----- Original Message -----
From: neville
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:05 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] 2 questions
I have 2 questions for all you experts.
1 How do you find unwanted frequencies and remove them? How do you get the
most out of a kick drum or a bass guitar if it's too boomy sounding? I wouldn't
want to remove all the low frequencies, because then it would sound flat, but
at the same time I wouldn't want to overpower the mix.
2 How would I remove hiss from a loop that I downloaded? I would like to get
the most out of these loops, but some of them are messy sounding.
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