he liked the relationship of the sounds and how aggressive it was in the relationship, but was worrying about headroom cause his master was clipping. it is most probably not overloading on the master, so it is not affecting your sound. individual channels should not be clipping (although few db is not really a problem even in ableton - bad policy tho), also levels between plugins (vst) is very important. Yes, gain staging is important, as i said. It has very little to do with how "loud" the finished track will be. Use what you want but I view gain staging as a liberating and attractive methodology. If you're already shooting over you will have to turn the volume down for that stage when as if you are using gain staging where every processing step has about the same level as the one before it you would have much free and on top of that not be prone to "louder-is-better" syndrome either. There are a number of audio processing methods that depends on input volume to sound a certain way. It can be a good idea to turn out a few overloaded mixes for comparison when learning gain staging. Now I hear instantly when a track is too loud with just a few dB, because it sounds like shit to me. It wasn't until I lowered my track volumes mixes started to really sound good and really kick. It also often sounds better not to overload - drum sounds especially - and opens your ears to how well musical compression really can sound when it gets headroom to breathe in. It's always easier to add volume than to take it away at the end. The thing is that with 24 or 32 bit audio you don't have to worry about filling every bit to avoid noise. Why use it when you can slap Utility on it? What you need to check more is levels between plugins themselves). Ableton is not the same rules as in analog (due to 32 bit floating point math or whatever, it just works. If individual channels are not clipping, but master is, you can just add an Utility as first in Master channel and just turn the gain down. Thank you for posting.īut it is not correct. This is the most helpful bit of info I've found.
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