Moke and Eed
New member
I work on bass heavy electronic music and I'm hoping some of you out there can help shed some light on this topic for me.
Sometimes I feel like when I export songs it's a shot in the dark how the waveform is gonna look. Sometimes it's pretty nice and smooth, but other times the kick and snare will be spiking out like crazy from everything else.
How do you keep all the waveforms nice and tight without anything, like the drums for instance, losing its power? Even after EQing and compressing my tracks I still need to go in and normalize and compress the final track so it looks more like the tracks of other electronic artists.
Is this something I should only be worried about at the mastering stage (Bassnectar songs for example look hard limited) or do these issues need to be addressed earlier on in the mixing stage? Using a hard limiter and boosting the volume gives the song more umph but it makes it a bit muddy, especially the low end, so I would rather avoid such drastic changes to the waves.