Clipping the 808's in FL studio..Is it okay???

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I recently watched a video of Lex Luger answering questions about his engineering, When asked how he mixed his 808's down to sound clean and still knock Lex relplied: "I don't put my 808's in no mixer.....i put my 808's in Fruity Loops...on my little pattern, and I get to work. I turn that bass up until that ***** knock, I don't mix it down no proper way. So i guess my question is, is it okay to crank up the 808's even if they clip in FL? Or is this because he has a professional mixing engineer to do the dirty work?
 
I think you know the answer to that.....some else mixes it!!! Dont go over 0dB in a daw...NEVER!!!!
 
FL Studio has a limiter on the master channel in most cases by default. He probably is just pushing it hard. So there is your answer. You just Limit the hell out of your 808.
 
I didn't know Lex's 808s reallty "knocked" they sound like he just pumps the hell out of them.

I'd be more concerned with how people who's 808s hit hard get them to.

Not knocking Lex, love his style, but I never thought his low end was mixed very well.
 
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I didn't know Lex's 808s reallty "knocked" they sound like he just pumps the hell out of them.

I'd be more concerned with how people who's 808s hit hard get them to.

Not knocking Lex, love his style, but I never thought his low end was mixed very well.
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Co-sign. His low end always is lacking IMO. I'd take the low end of Vybe over Lex any day.
 
lex has already said in other interviews that he does not mix so we know that his stuff is sent to an engineer (it is in the credits of the tracks). Even if he did mix them it is still getting sent out by the label to an engineer to work on it. I saw where Kayne (and his folks) did about 25 mixes to get the drums right on Stronger and it still got sent over to Manny for him to do his magic on the track. Anyway, I would agree with what other have said in that I don't think his low end is anything special....it's not a knock but just truth....lol..get it a knock?....lol..alright it wasn't funny.
 
Lex just makes beats he ain't worried about mixing, sound sculpting sound design or nothing like that just putting notes in a pattern and arranging them. That works for him but not everyone. I wouldn't take mixing advice from him. Besides if you have a good 808 it should knock pretty hard on its own anyway
 
i think the point is you usually don't need to eq or compress 808s (by themselves and assuming you have good samples), the thing that usually works best is to just turn them up. A lot of people over look that and try to do to much when all it needs is to be turned up.
 
Lex gets his stuff mixed. The dude has no midi keyboard just laptop pointer and speakers. He likes to write. His ish bangs like crazy though!
 
nothing should ever be cutting, use gain and limiters to get rid of it
 
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