Comments on: Keep your channel faders low and the Master at 0db! http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:02:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: jonathan http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-1683 jonathan Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:34:35 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-1683 yeah, i always leave my master fader at -0.3 or -0.1 if i can, that way its gonna be loud, but never peak above 0dB - i dont know if abelton is like protools, but protools shows a peak at 0dB and anything over 0dB as the same thing, so i try to be safe and always set the master to less than 0 =) especialy if im mastering, but then again, i never master in abelton =) yeah, i always leave my master fader at -0.3 or -0.1 if i can, that way its gonna be loud, but never peak above 0dB - i dont know if abelton is like protools, but protools shows a peak at 0dB and anything over 0dB as the same thing, so i try to be safe and always set the master to less than 0 =) especialy if im mastering, but then again, i never master in abelton =)

]]> By: Oliver Chesler http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-1680 Oliver Chesler Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:41:16 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-1680 Thanks for reading Nytel. Much appreciated! Thanks for reading Nytel. Much appreciated!

]]> By: NYTEL http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-1679 NYTEL Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:28:50 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-1679 Oliver! This is my first time coming across your site and I haven't been able to stop reading your posts! I first landed here in search of the beat swing technic and my eyes just kept going... Thanks for the great advice and researching what you present on your site. I will definately have to go through my old tracks and mix them down more proper! Your site is awesome! Keep rockin... Nytel Oliver! This is my first time coming across your site and I haven’t been able to stop reading your posts! I first landed here in search of the beat swing technic and my eyes just kept going…

Thanks for the great advice and researching what you present on your site. I will definately have to go through my old tracks and mix them down more proper!

Your site is awesome! Keep rockin…

Nytel

]]> By: JD http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-1356 JD Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:51:48 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-1356 Much appreciated , thanks! Much appreciated , thanks!

]]> By: Oliver Chesler http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-1354 Oliver Chesler Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:45:51 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-1354 Hi JD. Thanks for the nice words. Glad the tip helped you out. Making your final song louder is a big subject but here's a place to start, download the Mastering with Ozone guide: <a href="http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/ozone/guides.html" rel="nofollow">link</a>. You can use your DAWs built-in compressors/limiters to do the job but I like Ozone a lot and the guide is a good read of the overall concepts you would use with any plug-in. Good luck! Hi JD. Thanks for the nice words. Glad the tip helped you out. Making your final song louder is a big subject but here’s a place to start, download the Mastering with Ozone guide: link. You can use your DAWs built-in compressors/limiters to do the job but I like Ozone a lot and the guide is a good read of the overall concepts you would use with any plug-in. Good luck!

]]> By: JD http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-1353 JD Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:35:50 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-1353 Wicked , thanks for the tip! I tried this out and my mixes are much clearer and easier to control now . I've noticed that my overall result after exporting the track is very low in volume . I'm not skilled in mastering so , i was wondering if there's any tips you could give on how to get a louder result without clipping and destroying the final mix. Amazing blog btw ! Wicked , thanks for the tip!
I tried this out and my mixes are much clearer and easier to control now . I’ve noticed that my overall result after exporting the track is very low in volume . I’m not skilled in mastering so , i was wondering if there’s any tips you could give on how to get a louder result without clipping and destroying the final mix.

Amazing blog btw !

]]> By: Mike G http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-897 Mike G Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:28:12 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-897 cool. if my first comment hadn't been cut off and i wasn't too lazy, i would have explained that the point you made about plug-ins distorting was a big revelation to me. so, thanks a million for that one! however, i was just asking about the master fader level specifically (i.e. assuming everything is sounding good up to that point in the signal flow) and wondering if you had any insight on that issue specifically. thanks again for all your great posts! cool. if my first comment hadn’t been cut off and i wasn’t too lazy, i would have explained that the point you made about plug-ins distorting was a big revelation to me. so, thanks a million for that one! however, i was just asking about the master fader level specifically (i.e. assuming everything is sounding good up to that point in the signal flow) and wondering if you had any insight on that issue specifically.

thanks again for all your great posts!

]]> By: Oliver Chesler http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-896 Oliver Chesler Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:01:26 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-896 I'm going by my own ear and what I've read many other places and in general for me I get much clearer nicer sounding mixes when my faders are low. I did a bunch of tests. To your question more directly... I think you can distort plug-ins if you hit them too hard. I’m going by my own ear and what I’ve read many other places and in general for me I get much clearer nicer sounding mixes when my faders are low. I did a bunch of tests. To your question more directly… I think you can distort plug-ins if you hit them too hard.

]]> By: Mike G http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-895 Mike G Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:12:42 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-895 hi oliver, something must have happened with that last comment because the quote from the live manual got cut off... here's the gist of what i was asking: when exporting from live, i've noticed that the "normalize" feature will attenuate a signal that would otherwise clip (believe it or not, i actually tried to get live to clip an exported signal at one point and noticed this). therefore, is there anything other than signal clipping that can be a problem when you let the master signal go into the red? thanks so much! - mike hi oliver,

something must have happened with that last comment because the quote from the live manual got cut off…

here’s the gist of what i was asking: when exporting from live, i’ve noticed that the “normalize” feature will attenuate a signal that would otherwise clip (believe it or not, i actually tried to get live to clip an exported signal at one point and noticed this). therefore, is there anything other than signal clipping that can be a problem when you let the master signal go into the red?

thanks so much!

- mike

]]> By: Mike G http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-894 Mike G Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:05:26 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/01/25/keep-your-channel-faders-low-and-the-master-at-0db/#comment-894 hi oliver, wonderful post. here's a little quote from the live manual that really threw me off: "Because of the enormous headroom of Live's 32-bit hi oliver,

wonderful post. here’s a little quote from the live manual that really threw me off: “Because of the enormous headroom of Live’s 32-bit

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