Yo Yo!
im making technoish electronic stuff and I have some general questions regarding taking my productions to the next level.
My mixes are decent,and my new studio with ok audio treatment and some nice jbl monitors have helped alot. However I have a few things that I do over and over again and it seems like I could try some new ideas for a change.
Heres what I traditionally do: Kick and drums gets a bus and some Camel fat followed by some magnetic tape compression (nomad factroy)and if needed i put a logic eq over the bus usually first in line.
Basses and bass like sounds (low end) gets a bus of its own with some sidechain ducking by the kick,and sometimes I put the magnetic plug in over the whole bus.
Usually I have a bus each for percussion,efx and lead sounds but I generally dont have a set chain of plugins for this, but use whatever needed for the song.
My master bus gets a low cut at 35hz with 12db/oct and sometimes a high cut at 17-18k if I suspect there to be music for dogs up there. This is usually followed by some light saturation like the magnetic plug or vintage warmer. I use only the coloring part of these and I do no limiting or bus compression over the master bus.
I then just render the whole thing as is when it sounds good.(24/44.1)
Now heres what i plan to start doing:
Render each stem by itself in subgroups.
Combine the separate stems in a new project
Get some top quality plug ins to do the new mixes.
Maybe use higher sample rates.
so I have some questions:
When bouncing stems should I bypass the bus efx?
How can I get side chaining to work if the kick is not part of the stem I bounce?
Is there a point in using higher rates then 24/44.1 (its going to end up on mp3s anyway..)
Will better eqs and compressors make all that much difference and how does logics own stuff compare?
What logic compressor type makes for the better bus compressor?
Should I normalize each stem?
Thank you guys for taking your time..
here is a link to some recent stuff.
thanks again.