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Posted by Puke on July 04, 2000 at 13:58:19:

In Reply to: Re: Juzzers compression posted by Kevin on July 03, 2000 at 10:04:17:

I just realized that I made the idiotic assumption
that when you receive a mix for mastering, most of
the individual tracks have had the shit compressed
out of them already(I guess that's usually true here in
my world). If that is the case (like I said..
it usually is the case here, but I guess not there)
, when you slap a limiter on the mix (even if the limiter
is one of those $3K+ per channel ones), you will
never succeed in getting more than about 1/2 db. avg.
increase in volume (wihtout turning things to shit)
and Will probably succeed in getting
the pumping sound you don't want. Yes, if you've got
a mix that is not compressed (or limited) in a seriious
way, you probably will do great wonders by compressing
the entire mix. However, if given a choice, you would
have yourself a cleaner mix if you compressed the
channels individually before putting a limiter on
the entire mix. Most of my mixes end up with a limiter
on the entire mix as a "just in case" type of deal.
But, it rides the signal around 1db. or so and
it "rarely" goes up to two or down to zero. But
when mixing something that will end up digital,
1/4 db. of limiting on a song peak can save your ass
(as far as hitting the distortion threshold goes.).
I hope you understand what I just said, cause I'm
not sure if I do> Ha ha ha.

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Follow Ups:

• Re: One more thing, now that I've read kevin's post Juzzer 20:38:14 7/04/00 (4)
  • Hollywood, CA is where here is, most of the time, or at least thereabouts. Puke 21:05:49 7/04/00 (0)
  • Re: One more thing, now that I've read kevin's post Kevin 20:46:45 7/04/00 (2)
    • We have friends in Boise, My aunt has 5500 acres of sugar beets near Burly, but we never go to their farm. Puke 21:39:01 7/04/00 (1)
      • Re: We have friends in Boise, My aunt has 5500 acres of sugar beets near Burly, but we never go to their farm. Kevin 06:43:22 7/05/00 (0)
• Re: One more thing, now that I've read kevin's post Kevin 20:27:01 7/04/00 (1)
  • Actually, we just don't want to make it easy for someone to screw up the project. Puke 21:48:47 7/04/00 (0)

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