Audiobellum
Beatmaker
:help: Any advice would be appreciated.
Thank you, I'm using FL Studio 20 and I'm trying to compensate for a lack of acoustic treatment on a demo track for a female artist in my community (However, I doubt she'd approve if I were to share it yet). It's really just a learning experience for me but, I hope it could become something bigger (she also told me she wanted to take me on tour :biggrinIm happy to help, can you be more specific about what you are trying to do and what DAW you are using so we know what stock plugins you have available?
yea I would NOT do that with a limiter on the master, with herself as a side chain. I don't know that doing that makes sense actually. In theory her vocals could trigger herself kinda. These days I refuse to use a limit on the master and it may be more natural to just automate your volume on her track to get it to sit right.
A few things in regards to the compressor. In the case of vocals my signal path is usually compressor THEN eq as an pre compressor EQ can trigger the compressor when you don't want it to. What's your compressor ratio? Compression in general is pretty misunderstood and while I have done hundreds of mixes over the years with tons of compression, these days I really try to go easy on it. It can make a track dead pretty darn quick if you use it wrong. This is an interesting article on the topic https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/inside-track-jack-white
Also I am a HUGE believer in LCR mixing. It really helps me carve out the mix how I want it. See this video
With that ratio no compression will occurThanks, I'm gonna check those out. My compressor ratio on the main vocal track (and on the double tracks) is 1.0 :1. Now that I thought about it, maybe it wasn't such a good idea.
With that ratio no compression will occur