What is the Latest Technique You Have Learned as an Audio Engineer/Producer/Musician?

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  1. Plainview

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    man I learned more about life from this post than my 4 years at college
     
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    The latest thing I've learnt is that the quality of your limiter actually impacts the loudness of your track...

    that being said, I've also finally understood how bullshit loudness maximization is...

    HDR all the way baby, all the way to the grave...

    @Andrew you were right all along...
     
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    to buy some room treatments. no seriously, its just where im at in my world. then, i'll look at some decent monitors
     
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    which is a significant step up from before, when i didnt have a room. which was a significant step up from when i didnt have a roof
     
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    A fast way to calculate compressor release time for drums that I never thought about. If you have a bass drum track in 132bpm with the fastest beats 1/8 from each other you count: 2x132=264 60/264=0.227ms
    It's not exact of course because every compressor behaves differently amongst other things, but it's a good starting point.
     
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    I've learned that when adding a bus compressor, you find its sweet spot by gaining up or down all of your tracks feeding that compressor. Say, you find a balance that you are happy with, but it's slamming the bus compressor, move all the faders feeding said compressor at once until you find its place. It's faster and sounds better than tweaking the damned compressor (which I hate). It works especially well for me with the UAD Neve 33609 comp.
     
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    I learned hat hitting the record Button really helps
     
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    I learnt that a good song that sounds bad is always better than a bad song that sounds good.
    So now i'm focusing more on the ideas than on the techniques. See?
    I hear people talking bout starting points, well, i think that's one
     
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    This mic technique will be studied for the next 100 years.
     
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    OTT on master- there, the cats out the bag.
     
  12. Arabian_jesus

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    Wanted to try the trick with the snare but for some reason Pro-G doesn't seem to work when I put it after a VSTi :S It just sends the signal straight through unaltered no matter what the settings. It works just fine on any regular audio track but after a synth it doesn't do anything! Does anyone here have a clue as to why this is?

    Edit: Nvm! Had forgotten to disable MIDI after installing latest release of Fabfilter plug-ins and because pro-g read the MIDI note on the track it just stayed open!
     
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    windows 10 how to edit context menu technique.. improve production time about 2 - 3 % :shalom::like: +1

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    To all the sidechain comments.

    You can get more surgical and "lazy" when you sidechain with Melda MspectralDynamics, Soothe, or Trackspacer. It's great how they can instantly and precisely cut out frequencies of a track. It's like putting your tracks together like puzzle pieces with a minimal effect to overall headroom.

    Using them in Mid/Side mode is nice too. Cutting out the mids of a instrument bus but leaving the sides for reverb etc sounds way more transparent.
     
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  15. curtified

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    My New techniques/tools

    Loopcloud - for sample organization
    Ez Keys - for Midi
    Gullfoss, Soothe, Focusrite Balancer, Izotope Neutron Sculptor - for automatic EQ
    Wavesfactory Spectre - for saturation
    True Iron, Slate Revival, analog obsession plugs - for analog depth
     
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    A cool tip I learned from this video is to create contrast frequency wise from your left and right ears to give your music more depth.

     
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    OK, because it took me some time to figure out why it is correct, i thought i might just add a small explanation so you don't have to do it yourself if you feel like using this trick.

    There are 2 8th-notes in every beat so there are 2 x bpm 8th-notes in a minute and that means the duration of one of them is 60s / (2xbpm) which in the above case would be 0.227 seconds or 227 ms which got mixed up i guess.

    Anyways, now that i started thinking about it, you could even go a step further and calculate:

    60 / bpm for a quaternote
    45 / bpm for dotted 8th (3* 16th which is 3 * 15 /bpm = 45 /bpm)
    30 / bpm for 8th
    20 / bpm for 8th triplets

    15 / bpm for 16th

    I think i might just try to remember the blue ones and multiply or divide by 2 if needed.
     
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    Wouldn't it be the other way? Double bpm for half the note value.
     
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    Doubling the bpm is the same as dividing the time in half.. 60s / (2 * bpm) = (60s / 2) divided by bpm

    If you count twice as fast you will be done with counting the original amount of beats in half the time.
     
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