Help with mixing

[Sdiddy78]

iight u have a kick, bass, and snare and its hitting red, can someone tell me what they would do to mix it so it wont hit red

[EricI]

That means the audio is clipping or is way to loud. The problem with this is that it distorts the sound. My first suggestion would be to lower the volume of kick snare etc. If there is no clipping you did your job. Then try a compressor.

[RedBeerd]

YOu have to make sure that your RECORDING levels are set to where when summed, they won't clip.

http://www.futureproducers.com/forum...tting-started/

PEace.

[3ternal]

EQ's on both kick and snare.

Roll off extreme lows on the kick and then roll off however much you can on the high end until it starts altering the sound of your kick.

Then on the snare similar thing except you need to find the sweet spot, and you're gonna be able to take more off the bottom end, and less off the top until the sound starts being messed with.

You can also start both off with filters first to make it a little easier and then use the EQ to clean whatever the filters leave behind.

That should most likely be enough head room, after that start looking at maybe very slight panning (like maybe pan kick 2 left, snare 2 right), compression etc.

[SvenD]

What 3ternal said is great. But it sounds like you are new to mixing. First things first, turn DOWN the volume on each specific track. Do not touch the master buss fader, instead adjust the individual track faders by turning them down. Turn them all down -15db, then go from there. It is a good idea to separate your drum sounds out, so your kick should be on one track, your snare on another, hihat on another etc. Then start mixing your drums at low volume. Can't hear the drums? Crank your monitors some more till you get good volume. You are not trying to make your stuff sound incredibly loud at this point, you just need enough volume so that you can hear all aspects of the sound. You should be nowhere near clipping (digital distortion) at this point. When I am mixing drums I am usually around -12 to -16db. So now you messed around with the individual drum faders so that your mix sounds good (all the drums sit well and you can hear stuff proportionally, so the snare is not too soft or too loud and is in front, kick is loud but does not drowned out the rest etc). Now make a group buss, and route your individual drum tracks to that group buss, so when you adjust that group fader it brings the volume of all of your drums tracks up or down. Now you can maintain that nice drum mix you worked so long on and still be able to bring the drums up or down when you start to add other instruments.... Mixing is great huh?

[RedBeerd]

If the signal is recorded hot, then it doesn't matter what you do to the balance (volume), or to the panning, the track will still sound like it's clipping, or that it is near clipping. MIxing will not fix hot signals that have been recorded.

Proper gain staging BEFORE recording will help immensely in keeping this from happening.

PEace.

[SwagProductionz]

You must compress and equalize.. And maybe lower gain/volume.. Go on youtube and look up eq/compression tutorials.

[KillerKraut]

Its called clipping, just turn your gain down... or record the sound with less volume. If you can put a limiter on it as well.

[Sdiddy78]

Yo i wanna thank everyone who helped me out when i blow up ima shout on the ppl on future producers lol

[oldhydrolaw]

just turn it DOWN!

forget what everyone said about EQ/COmpressors. cuz if the signal is too hot going into those it will CLIP those plugs as well...even if you turn it down inside the plug

you have to make sure at EVERY step you are not clipping or else your beats will sound like clams casino. like it always sounds like it needs to be turned down.

when recording digitl at 24bits...u shouldnt be recording hotter than -6...maybe -9/-12