Hey guys,
so I've found myself in a position where I'm confused as to what to prioritize while producing. Currently, I have huge problems when it comes to volume levels and over-compression (as in, everything sounds huge and full in my DAW and when I export it and upload it to SC and Youtube, it sounds compressed, quiet and like shit, half the elements pretty much gone, drowning in the mix.)
I've finally understood how a compressor works (hopefully) and also I've realized that headroom is vastly important. (I would never leave any headroom before, which is most likely the reason my tracks sounded like shit when exported.)
Right now I'm working on a Big Room track, I'm in the stages of laying down the elements, effects and everything and I started to wonder: every channel in my mixer has a headroom of 6 DB (as in, everything is either below, or peaking at -6 DB), but then won't the intro sound the same as the drop if everything has the same amount of headroom? Also, I'm thinking ahead as to how the waveform is gonna look like, and since everything is -6 DB, won't it all look like the drop area (you know, most songs' waveforms start out thin and they grow while approaching the drop and then the drop itself is the loudest, how do I achieve this without making the intro too quiet compared to the drop?)
I was thinking of putting the intro elements at or below -9 DB, drop at -6DB, but then again, I wanna use some of the effects from the intro in the drop as well, but then the -9 DB effects from the intro wouldn't be loud enough during the -6 DB drop, do I just automate and raise the volume during the drop or what is the best approach to this situation I find myself in?
I know it's kind of a hussle to understand this in the way I've written it, but hopefully you guys will get what I mean and thanks for any advices, I'm really clueless right now.
Submitted November 24, 2017 at 07:42PM by BesTCracK https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/7fazcl/question_regarding_track_structure_mixing_and/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Friday, November 24, 2017