What's up beautiful people We're almost at the end of the year (can you believe it?! gosh, time flies man...), we're all getting tired of working and doing stuff, so this month user Grass, who won last month, has chosen an easy song for ya with just a few tracks It's a country-rock tune called All American Mutt by Jamie Kent. Hope you guys like it and I'll see you very soon
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Yea I vote for more mixing time as well. I am swamped with mixing and recording. LOL but I really wanna be a part of this, seems fun and I never use Reaper plugs. So that will be fun to try them.
It's one of those things that makes you wonder what was going on during the tracking session. I can't imagine recording an acoustic guitar with all that bleed unless you planned to over-dub later.
With that said, several people on that Cambridge website, where the stems come from, have managed to make perfectly useable mixes. In the official release of that song, there are several other instruments layered on top and the acoustic guitar is barely audible.
this type of tracks is were i missed another plugins in reaper.
multimaximizer, or any multiband compressor like waves..
and some good plate reverbs...
wishlist to version 6!
this type of tracks is were i missed another plugins in reaper.
multimaximizer, or any multiband compressor like waves..
and some good plate reverbs...
wishlist to version 6!
Martinmadero,
Have you tried reaXcomp? I'm not sure how it compares to other multiband...
when you say "only reaper plugins" does that include the jsfx included with reaper?
hello zappazapper!
yes you can use any jsfx plugin included in reaper
read the faqs in the reaper contest website for more information about the mixing rules: https://reapercontest.wixsite.com/home/mixing
hello zappazapper!
yes you can use any jsfx plugin included in reaper
read the faqs in the reaper contest website for more information about the mixing rules: https://reapercontest.wixsite.com/home/mixing
I just sent my submission via the Contest Website.
Please let me know if you received the ZIP and if it contains everything you need?
I had a hard time hitting the -14 and -1.0 peak. It was the "TRUE PEAK" that kept creeping up compared to the peak registered in Reaper. I had to hunt down the places and instruments, lower the volume and/or compress a bit more, because the JS Limited would not do the job properly; I told it the ceiling was -1.0, but it would let some peaks through (some inter-samples I assume...).
Anyway, I think the Reaper peaked at -1.3 and the True Peak at -1.1; I had to stop trying to get to the perfect integer value because I was messing up the mix with all the tweaking here and there needed to hit the mark. Plus, I was spending way too much time doing that part of the mixing...
I was wondering if, next time, you would be ok with:
LUFS [-13.8 to -14.2]
Ceiling max -true peak (or reaper peak?) [-1.2 to -0.8]
That flexibility would be enough to prevent some (i.e. me) from spending to much time and effort hunting down some small sound details, then finding a way to fix them without messing up the rest of the sound/color?
Hey, I worked some stuff out and re-sent a new ZIP file on the Contest Website.
Please use this new version. Ok?
Thanks
Ok, now wait. I'm not sure anymore which peak i need to limit. Reaper's or Youlean (i,e, the TRUE peak?
Can someone please give me some indications, because i'm running around in circles here tryi111ng to get both these peaks to match up (i can't do it - completely stumped - this is too technical for me).
hey guys you have time until Sunday night to send me your stuff. Too busy for school and don't have time right now to do all the prep work for the next phase!
One song has a great snare sound
One song has great clear and balanced vocals
One has a good kick sound
One has nice back vocal effects
One has a tight electric guitar sound
One got the bass just right
Too bad all these things are not in the same song!
How can we get rid of the 'in hindsight' syndrome involved in mixing? LOL