Daniel Carroll
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Can someone tell me why my mix sounds good when I have -6db headroom then when I use a limiter to bring it all up it sounds harsh even when I'm not going over 0db?
Can someone tell me why my mix sounds good when I have -6db headroom then when I use a limiter to bring it all up it sounds harsh even when I'm not going over 0db?
Alrighty, back. seems the difference between the two is that analogue has no samplerate.
Digital's maximum [As far as I know] is 192khz.
Analogue has no samplerate, therefore the signal for those would literally be 100% accurate to whatever the analogue source is as analogue doesn't process sound the same way.
When the samplerate increases, the digital sound gets more and more smooth but would still not be 100% accurate.
If you are concerned with this, stick to analogue.
You prefer hardware. I prefer software.
Many people here have a bias for one or the other.
More power to you if you stick to hardware.
As a person who started on software, I'd recommend what I have experience with and what I know.
My analogue knowledge is zilch since I have not owned hardware outside of midi controllers.
Software will never be analogue because it is code and not circuitry.
I'm not arguing with ya, and that other one's Daniel.
All I'm saying is, if you prefer one format over the other then stick to what you prefer. If you get good results with hardware then you stick to hardware.
There's many fellas who are loyalists like you. As there are many software biased people. I prefer digital.
The short answer is this will happen with over-limiting. Light, judicious use is the answer (or avoiding brick-walls altogether).
GJ
It sounds also like a bitdepth thing the more I read these posts of the various fellas. [daniel, you, the others etc]
I'll do some research about the differences as it has gotten me curious but now I'm starting to think it's also bitdepth related as 24bitdepth and 32bit/64bit depth have immense headroom.
Buuuut this is probably just one other difference and there might be even more to it than that.
This what I find https://www.applied-acoustics.com/techtalk/sampleratebitdepth/
DarkRed-- Nobody is more of a Luddite/analog appreciator than myself, but making this issue your one and only crusade (while it does have the benefit of at least codifying your ideas in a way that many readers can at least understand, but I digress) is ill-conceived on a site where 90% of the participants are a) dyed-in-the-wool digital producers, and b) mostly involved in Hip-Hop/Rap production. We have to help people with the basics, and help them make the most of what they have access to. It is a new world, a post digital revolution world, and you are not going to get 90% of laptop users to suddenly decide that they should sink $30,000 or more into analog gear that must then be tied to a physical location. Nah Gon Do. Let's try and help folks get the most out of whatever they're using (almost certainly an ITB DAW), rather than try to convert everyone to the joys of analog by saying "you'll never make a hit with software."
IT'S TOO LATE. Like it or not, people have been making software-based hits since the 90's. I'd wager that most of the Nashville-based CCM artists that you are fond of posting make their music in ITB DAW's, and they have it mastered by a mastering engineer using a computer-based mastering system. One of the most knowledgeable, old school mastering engineers I've ever met (he started at Motown in Detroit in the 60's) does a lot of his work on a laptop in his living room. I wish that everybody did everything to tape, but that's not how it's done. Let's move on from flogging this particular philosophically dead horse.
GJ