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Crazy J 
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I couldnt find a post with this question, sorry if there is one already. So im now using Logic Pro - While making D&B is it best to make sure none of your sounds ie your kick drums/snares anything realy go into the red on the mixer above 0db? The reason im askin is that after bouncing a tune it is still very low and going above 0db on the mixer does not distort the sounds anyway?
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19-08-2009 21:40 |
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Crazy J
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Anyone? Appreciate it.
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19-08-2009 23:48 |
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Gregg
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If you go past 0 dB with your mixes you will automatically cause clipping that is, even in a fairly small amount, not recommendable for various reason.
It is bad for speaker’s health as well as for the sound of your mix due to the creation of additional harmonics that will finally resemble distortion. The waves used in the clipping mix are shaped so that a sine- ends up sounding like a square wave which is not good either.
Therefore, you should always try to prevent any clipping (compress, limit) and preserve a bit of headroom. Even if there is just a little clipping it might get noticeable when you turn the song up and apart from that I see no point or pro in going past 0 dB so just don’t do it.
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20-08-2009 00:36 |
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Sephiroth
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Keep everything below 0db and use compression/ limiting to bring your levels up. It might sound fine above 0db on your own system but you may find your mixes don't translate well on other systems. The only problem then is how far you wanna
push your mix with compression/ limiting.....the whole
dynamics to loudness arguement comes into place then which I'm sure there's plenty of posts on around the forum. 
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20-08-2009 19:17 |
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BattleDrone
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If your mix is too silent you'll need to put a compressor on the master to raise the parts that are too silent.
On the master I prefer a multiband compressor so I can compress the lows/mids/hi's seperatly and balance them to taste.
Minor clipping isn't a big issue, but if a tune is constantly clipping it sounds distorted in a bad way and it is "unpleasant" to listen to.
To avoid clipping use a limiter.
I dunno what to use on Apple, but on PC I prefer to use Izotope Ozone to compress/maximize/limit the whole thing. I use the multiband compressor from FL studio which does the job.
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