The Dhali: Well several colleges and I have spent years playing with audio. One hurdle we all have to jump over sooner or later is learning to properly equalize when mixing down a final track.

I am at this point with a track I am working on this evening. I’ve got 16 tracks of raw wav data. Now I will work on panning and volume to place the instruments within the mix. I’m also going to remove the frequencies that I don’t need from the data I’m mixing. For instance. The kick drum on track 2.. Does not have a need for the high frequencies passing into the mix. Therefore we will clip off that top portion so that bass is all that comes through. This leaves the high frequency to have no data running through which could create noise if I had left it alone. We want to eliminate noise, and achieve a crisp, rich, true sound, as high a quality as we can record from the generator.

In this case we are generating the sounds with a module called SampleTank2.

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/sampletank/features/ - Learn More!

I’ve laid my patterns from my brain into the timed sequence and then isolated the track and bounced the track to disk solo. This means I’ve taken the midi data from the arrangement and recorded it into a wav file for use in the final mix. I do this to capture the sound I want when I tweak and adjust the sounds according to my liking and tastes, then in order to stamp that I will save it in the module and also bounce it to disk so I have a hard copy of the instrument routine.

Note: Working with raw assets the entire way is the only path to having a solid and sound mix. No imported mp3 or other compressed filed, start with native assets. End with great mixes.

Lets look into a few more things before we call it a night.

I shall follow up on this with a few screen shots of a linear eq program that will allow you to see when you adjust your levels.


Here is a screen shot of the bass and kick drum of a track I’ve been working with.

In order for my first curve to punch through and have its own spot in the mix, I maneuver the second wave (green) just slightly so the pink wave (my kick drum) can womp through in glory. Do this with the rest of your tracks and remember to use your ears not your eyes.

Pro G!

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Mario Florendo Castro
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