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skami97 Posts: 15	Posted - Sat Oct 06, 2001 10:04 am  Im having trouble when i perform a mixdown..i have all my tracks panned respectively..(ive even tried pan center)tried hardlimiting ,amplify(cut and boost),compression, etc: everything is fine until i mixdown and in stereo my mix continues to clip..is there any certain "procedure", trick to getting the volume at ie:(-1db)..thanks
jonrose Location: USA Posts: 2901	Posted - Sat Oct 06, 2001 10:35 am  Hi there, First, play back your mix from multitrack, all the way through, noting the clipping, which will show up. You can even right-click on your meters and choose "Static Peaks," (which is a peak-hold function), and it will keep your highest peaks visible, even though the clip segments at the top of the meters will hold themselves on by default until you clear them (by clicking on them). You will probably benefit by reducing your master volume (upper left corner) a little - then check it again. Once you've got it under control, you'll be able to mix it down and deal with the single file from there. Also, remember that you're not looking to crush and maximize everything before you mix down - you can play around with mastering when you've got a decent mix, and that mix should leave you at least 3dB of room to do that. I'd go back to your un-hardlimited tracks and try again. Bottom line is - If you have a nice mix, don't keep crushing it before mixing just to keep it from clipping (exceptions being unruly, extremely dynamic, individual tracks that won't sit in the mix anyway). Over-compression and hardlimiting are extremely detrimental to your sound. Just lower the master, get it sounding good, mixdown, then do overall loudness and EQ optimizations in the mastering stage. Of course you'll have to get your track EQ's right for them to sound like everything has its own sonic space in the mix. Things have to be taken in steps. You just can't do all of this stuff in one! All the best... -Jon :-) _________________
skami97 Posts: 15	Posted - Sat Oct 06, 2001 12:37 pm  Jon thanks for the help..did what you said..and what a difference! actually got my mix to -1 db..no clipping!..what i also did was let cep and my echo layla do the work..instead of trying to mix thru my tascam mixer..i just used my 9 and 10 mon.out on layla directly to my amp. and adjusted everything that way..i say this just in case someone else has a problem like this..it may help..thanks for your input..it helped me greatly
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