07-04-2013, 12:32 AM
Awesome! I think it's good giving yourself a challenge like that, and you'll learn much more about what the plugin is capable of.
Good work indeed!
The song itself is very densely packed with lots of thick guitars, which are integral to the style of song it is, so it is going to be a tricky process to keep them up in the mix whilst letting through the other essential ingredients such as bass & kick...and vocals.
With the SSL plugin, use the HPF to remove the murk below about 100 - 150Hz from the guitar and you'll then get more of the bass coming through the mix.
Also, if you don't already know, press the Dynamics to Out button (or whatever it says) so that the compressor comes after the EQ section if that's how you're used to working. Strangely, by default the dynamics comes *before* the EQ in that plugin, though the layout suggests the other way around.
Here's a really useful video on this suite
http://therecordingrevolution.com/2012/1...iew-video/
BTW, I don't know if you have noticed, but it seems the SSL compressor (the master comp) has the 2:1 and 10:1 ratio settings the wrong way around!! When I use it to try to do some very slight compression across the buss at 2:1, it slams the reduction meter. Clicking it across to 10:1 gets it to behave like a 2:1 ratio.
Stupid Waves programmers.
Dags
Good work indeed!
The song itself is very densely packed with lots of thick guitars, which are integral to the style of song it is, so it is going to be a tricky process to keep them up in the mix whilst letting through the other essential ingredients such as bass & kick...and vocals.
With the SSL plugin, use the HPF to remove the murk below about 100 - 150Hz from the guitar and you'll then get more of the bass coming through the mix.
Also, if you don't already know, press the Dynamics to Out button (or whatever it says) so that the compressor comes after the EQ section if that's how you're used to working. Strangely, by default the dynamics comes *before* the EQ in that plugin, though the layout suggests the other way around.
Here's a really useful video on this suite
http://therecordingrevolution.com/2012/1...iew-video/
BTW, I don't know if you have noticed, but it seems the SSL compressor (the master comp) has the 2:1 and 10:1 ratio settings the wrong way around!! When I use it to try to do some very slight compression across the buss at 2:1, it slams the reduction meter. Clicking it across to 10:1 gets it to behave like a 2:1 ratio.
Stupid Waves programmers.
Dags
So many songs, so little time!