If you have to use the Ableton Live limiter for your master limiting, you may have noticed it can soften your drums very easily. Well, try this.
Insert a Saturator first, and try, say, 2 dB of Drive; Saturator will always clip your peaks a bit, and this will take some of the stress of the limiter as peaks will be hitting the limiter less.
Then, a good tip Continue reading Ableton Live limiting tip
I wrote a blog post for CloudBounce about finishing songs / work ethic.
It’s a bit of a “remix” of an earlier blog post of mine.
Peep it…I hope there’s some helpful thoughts. These have helped me!
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Seppa – Yaow (Slug Wife)
Dead Man’s Chest – Hangman Posse (Western Lore)
Danny Scrilla – All Thumbs (AMAR)
Touchy Subject – Free (Rua Sound)
Earl Grey – Winter Symptoms
Sam Binga & Danny Scrilla – Frolic In Brine (Cosmic Bridge)
SHADES – K.S.P.
Dillinja – Humanity (Deep Jungle)
Enjoy – Off Duty Funk (Bustle Beats)
Fracture – Back Up In This (Astrophonica)
Klute – Blitz (Certificate 18)
Alix Perez – The Raven (1985)
AMIT – Acid Trip [Half Step VIP]
SDS – False Hope (dub)
Seba – External reality (Om Unit remix)
Dom & Xanadu – Ultraviolet
I happened to upload the stems for “Stages” for a friend.
After doing that, I thought, why not let anyone have a go at it.
So, if you wish to download the stems, find them here.
They’ll be up for 7 days.
If you’re not familiar with the song, you can hear it here.
I’d be interested in what you can come up with!
Plugin checkout #1: Wavesfactory Trackspacer.
A dynamic sidechain plugin that cuts out from the desired signal the frequencies of the source signal. A helpful mixing tool. Showing how Trackspacer can be used to make room in a mix.
Was working on this mix and needed to something about vox/guitar clash and Trackspacer helped me a bit.