I'm lost about what the next step is to mix my project.
I have some medium to large projects all done as far as arrangement goes. Mostly virtual instruments and some audio samples.
But, I paid no attention to gain staging or clipping during the creative stage, so I've got individual tracks clipping all over the place, not to mention the mains.
I've read and watched a lot of stuff on what to do regarding mixing and gain staging, but almost every tutorial starts of with what to do with already bounced audio stems. I can't find much info on what to do at my stage, when I've still got a bunch of virtual instrument tracks.
From what I've gathered, this is the point at which I bounce all tracks down to audio stems. Correct me if I'm wrong.
But, before I do that:
1: Do I make sure that no individual track exceeds -18db, -5db or -6db. I've got all of those numbers in my head.
2: Do I lower all my track faders to some number, or do I turn down the volumes within the virtual instruments? Note, if I'm supposed to lower the faders, I don't see how I do that, as I have a lot of volume automation on a lot of my tracks.
I have some medium to large projects all done as far as arrangement goes. Mostly virtual instruments and some audio samples.
But, I paid no attention to gain staging or clipping during the creative stage, so I've got individual tracks clipping all over the place, not to mention the mains.
I've read and watched a lot of stuff on what to do regarding mixing and gain staging, but almost every tutorial starts of with what to do with already bounced audio stems. I can't find much info on what to do at my stage, when I've still got a bunch of virtual instrument tracks.
From what I've gathered, this is the point at which I bounce all tracks down to audio stems. Correct me if I'm wrong.
But, before I do that:
1: Do I make sure that no individual track exceeds -18db, -5db or -6db. I've got all of those numbers in my head.
2: Do I lower all my track faders to some number, or do I turn down the volumes within the virtual instruments? Note, if I'm supposed to lower the faders, I don't see how I do that, as I have a lot of volume automation on a lot of my tracks.