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add the limiter or maximiser

Should'nt use them for lowering volume in a mix i don't think. Yeh there used for radio with fluctuating volumes but you want your compressor taking care of that in digital audio production. Don't wanna preach but thats bad practice. Get it right in the mix without touching the limiter and when you come to use it at the end (via routing the channel to it or simply putting it last in the effect chain) will bring your track to life and make a good mix great. Keep your bass in the ball park of - 8 and - 6db in the mixer channel. Remember kick and bass are most likely to be the loudest thing in your track so you wanna sculpt other sounds round it and round it's volume. Remember to check the volume in the actual fx chain. Make sure your not boosting 2 much in eq or compression. Check the output volume of each effect insert. There's no substitute for a good monitoring plug in either. I'm loving Roger Nichols Multimeter at the minute. Preffer it to the waves Paz Analyzer. But what you use is down to personnal taste and what you find easier to understand.

In reply to

In reply to

add the limiter or maximiser

Should'nt use them for lowering volume in a mix i don't think. Yeh there used for radio with fluctuating volumes but you want your compressor taking care of that in digital audio production. Don't wanna preach but thats bad practice. Get it right in the mix without touching the limiter and when you come to use it at the end (via routing the channel to it or simply putting it last in the effect chain) will bring your track to life and make a good mix great. Keep your bass in the ball park of - 8 and - 6db in the mixer channel. Remember kick and bass are most likely to be the loudest thing in your track so you wanna sculpt other sounds round it and round it's volume. Remember to check the volume in the actual fx chain. Make sure your not boosting 2 much in eq or compression. Check the output volume of each effect insert. There's no substitute for a good monitoring plug in either. I'm loving Roger Nichols Multimeter at the minute. Preffer it to the waves Paz Analyzer. But what you use is down to personnal taste and what you find easier to understand.

u can lower ur signal than maximise it.

prevents clipping.

but eqing out the right freq can help this too

For dance music monoing your bass is advised as you want to have the same sound coming out of both speakers... most of your drums should be mono too...

Dan, you should always have a clean signal (not clipping) before and after an effect, if you have a sound clipping but just put a limiter on it then yes it will not be clipping on the channel to look at, but you will just be squashing the sound down to 0db clipping and all, so in essence it is still there...

I was looking all over the program and it was probably right in front of my face, but how do I set the bass to mono?