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Ok well until now I used mono-Right option, with that I can still pan left and right, if I use stereo same thing, if I set it on mono-Left option when I play I don't hear anything, is this correct? is it fine if I set all my guitars in mono-right but then I pan them? I thought that with mono you could not pan the guitars.

Bloody hell actually I totally didn't get the mono stereo thing, should I record the guitars in stereo or mono? What's recommended?

Actually I don't know Lol, I have just recorded guitars with TH-U, that's it, I can pan left or right so should be stereo, I have forgotten indeed to put NONE in input, now I have recomputed the wave image but it's still the same even if input none, no idea.

Hi Guys, I don't understand what's going on in some of my tracks they are displayed as the following, double waves one line on top the other on the bottom. What is wrong with this? is it just a display issue? I hear no difference in sound.

Thanks just saw on LANDR QA, but it's refering to the master bus "7. Don’t cheat Have headroom in mind when you start your mix and keep your tracks at safe levels. If you’re finding yourself trying to recover headroom at the end, fine tune your individual track levels rather than reaching for your master fader and pulling it down. Don’t cheat your way to -6 dBFS. If you’ve used plugins for the sake of loudness and your waveform is big, block-like and peaking at or near 0 dBFS – don’t take a shortcut by dragging your master fader down. You might think you created headroom because your peak level is now lower, but you’ve only squished your mix. For headroom to be beneficial to your mix, it needs to be arrived at in the right way."

"Do I add compression, limiting? Dithering? Music-makers and engineers alike use plugins in creative ways, everyone’s got their little tricks and we love that. Like we mentioned, Compressors are often a vital tool used to control dynamics and we encourage you to use them as needed. Just remember that LANDR can do more for your mix if you’re gentler and more calculated with your compression techniques. Compression can eat up your dynamic range and the heavier you apply it (especially when used on your entire mix) - the less you’re giving LANDR to work with. Limiters are also useful for more than just brickwalling and boosting. Use these wherever you like, but we don’t recommend slapping one on to your master channel and pushing it for the sake of overall loudness - LANDR’s an expert at this and will take care of it for you."

Thanks a lot! for the left right pan, if toocentered it gives the impression that it's mashing up the guitars track resulting in less clarity of what single guitars are doing.

Thanks for the comment!! No need for this, LANDR mastering tool does not recommend it. "Mastering involves compression techniques that use this space in order to add intensity, presence and glue your mix together - if the dynamic range is already gone - there’s not much LANDR can do on that front. The main culprit behind mixes with low dynamic range is heavy compression or limiting. We get it, using compression and limiting at the master or stereo output of your mix adds loudness and intensity, and you want your mix to be BIG! - but if you’re planning on using LANDR for that final touch - LANDR will take care of this for you. If you like mixing loud, no worries - just turn your monitors up!"

Hi there, so I have my guitars track clipping a bit over -6db, I already did gain staging at the beginning without plugin and kept it at -18/-6db, but then adding the plugin it goes over it. now what should I do? 1- low down faders volume ( apparently this is just tricking, the wave form will remain the same anyway, not good.) 2- low down the gain on top of fader (already at -6 gain, decreasing this will take out the gain from the distortion modifying the guitar sound I need, I want it quite distorted, in plugin THU gain is already st max) 3- low down the output volume in the THU plugin ( then I would need to low down the volume of the rest, clean guitars, drums and bass to keep the dynamics, but the overall song volume is already very low, I can barely hear the song playing having the masterbus at 0 volume) 4- other options? What do you suggest?

Honelstly? Not using one! LOL , I'm just looking at the faders that won't go red and using Free-G to see if it stays between -18 and -6db

I get it ok, thanks. I will try with the WAV format!

Thanks a lot for the comments! Do you suggest any particular limiter plugin for cakewalk?

Thanks! but the bass should not be panned right or left correct? it should stay in the center.

I dont understand, down the middle? Please dont consider bass, it’s not definitive. Consider overall sound.

Non mastered https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VcY4ISXdpF7N_I0RFO9SGCxiSrJ162r1/view?usp=drivesdk it barely cracks -21LUFS as can bee seen in the attached

Thanks! I post it in the songs as well. By the way the not mastered version is already very low in volume, you can barely hear it, the master volume track is not clipping, but the drums track is indeed clipping a bit breaking the -6db, but if i low down the drums fader I will have to low down the rest as well making it even lower. Im afraid I wont be able to hear the non mastered version.

The master volume is low and not clipping, but the drums tracks is clipping breaking the -6db, if I put down the drums volume not to clip, I will have to low down the rest as well making it even lower. it’s clipping in the distorted part at around 3min

Hi there I just mixed one of my songs, I'm quite a newbie and self learner and I really need some feedback from more expert people. Please consider I did the bass track with a guitar pitch shifter just temporary, I don't have a bass yet, I will do it properly later so don't comment the bass please. I made the drums with NI Studio Drummer Plugin. Can someone tell me how it sounds? is there something I should improve? Does the drums sound realistic? I'm mostly worried about the clipping and hotness of the mix, also about the EQing, I simply did a high pass and low pass on the guitars, didn't go to search for the other unwanted frequencies doing cuts etc. So I'm not sure whether some guitar frequencies are covering other drums frequencies and so on, I'm not sure how to do that I'm simply using the EQ in Cakewalk that you add on each track, I'm notable just by listening to understand what . consider this is a non mastered version yet. Despite the general audio is kept quite low as you can hear, the drums is clipping a little bit in yellow, not over 0 anyway, cause I put some compression on it LINK: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GU9AfdSObDnP-YOBW0hb4JOC6IP1Y3dF/view?usp=sharing

I posted in NI forum, very strange, might be the latency? If no solution is provided by NI forum can I fix it by hand? I mean splitting the two stereo audios and just dragging a track afew millisecond so they match?

How did you do that? I use NI Studio Drummer plugin for drums programming. It is stereo indeed, that’s how it should be no? So you can pan the different drums toms left and right. But with the kick and snare centered.

Anyway thanks for the tips. I will keep the EQ high pass cut at around 90, I guess should be fine

You are definitely right, but then the same concept should be valid also when you play live, I honestly never heard someone saying you should put the guitar bass on the amp at minimum when playing in a band. Also there might be some parts when there’s only electric guitar playing in the song, and in that moment it will sound quite thin I guess

Hi there one question, I'm using TH-U amps for my electric guitars sound, I'm using the Plexi Marshall and it's perfect but it's missing some bass/boost, so I added an EQ and set it up as you can see in the photo below, increasing the low frequencies, now I like the sound it's perfect by itself. Then when playing the song all together with drums and bass, everyone recommends to cut the low frequencies of the guitars to leave those lows for the Bass and take out that "mud", so then I cut the lows on the guitar bus EQ at around frequency 90 (photo below) Does this make any sense to you? I mean, I'm using a Plexi Marshall TH-U cause I love the timbre, but I like it to be boosted a bit like the JCM800, so I increase the lows to make it sound like I want, but then I cut those lows after in the bus EQ to make space for the Bass??? I'm not a big fan of this cutting guitar lows to be honest even if everyone says it must be done, I mean I want my guitars to be fat! Any suggestion? what should I do? should I remove the EQ in TH-U at this point?

Hi there one question, I'm using TH-U amps for my electric guitars sound, I'm using the Plexi Marshall and it's perfect but it's missing some bass/boost, so I added an EQ and set it up as you can see in the photo below, increasing the low frequencies, now I like the sound it's perfect by itself. Then when playing the song all together with drums and bass, everyone recommends to cut the low frequencies of the guitars to leave those lows for the Bass and take out that "mud", so then I cut the lows on the guitar bus EQ at around frequency 90 (photo below) Does this make any sense to you? I mean, I'm using a Plexi Marshall TH-U cause I love the timbre, but I like it to be boosted a bit like the JCM800, so I increase the lows to make it sound like I want, but then I cut those lows after in the bus EQ to make space for the Bass??? I'm not a big fan of this cutting guitar lows to be honest even if everyone says it must be done, I mean I want my guitars to be fat! Any suggestion? what should I do? should I remove the EQ in TH-U at this point?

I would like the kick to be like in this record, it sounds quite high, I guess depends from the genre https://envy.bandcamp.com/track/swaying-leaves-and-scattering-breath