{"id":831,"date":"2013-03-15T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santoclemenzi.com\/?p=831"},"modified":"2013-03-15T09:19:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T08:19:58","slug":"uniformare-il-volume-di-ogni-traccia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santoclemenzi.com\/en\/uniformare-il-volume-di-ogni-traccia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride your tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I’m mixing you can’t even imagine how many times my focus is broken by something to fix in the tracks: that kick drum hit that’s not so in time, an incertain bass note, a little vocal part slightly out of tune or other little issues that I can’t stand. Maybe it’s because of my aptidute to be obsessive compulsive or just because I like to do good mixes, I don’t know, but there’s a little truth: if I have to stop mixing every time I notice something to fix on the editing part I can’t focus as I should on mixing.<\/p>\n

The point I always like to stress (also to myself, don’t you think Santo?<\/em>) is that editing is extremely important, you have to carefully carry forward and finish it once for all: laziness is around the corner here, don’t fall in the trap, you could think that the most part of the track is “almost good” just because it will be boring to fix the issues. Let’s be honest: fixing timing issues on each kick drum is really boring. But it’s necessary<\/strong>, just don’t be lazy. If your target is a good mix you can’t skip this passage: good recordings, careful editing, and then<\/strong> great mixes.<\/p>\n

Even if you’re editing everything the best you can, there’s something that still lies behind editing, because now you’re listening to every track just from a “technical” point of view, not the musical one. Vocals and Bass (above all) have a wide dynamic range, sometimes it happens that you have an unwanted dynamic variation. Maybe it’s something you didn’t notice while you were recording, but now it’s there. In this case instead of an aggressive compressor (that could ruin the dynamic feel of the track) it’s more advisable to go manual. There’s a lot of way to manually edit and fix this kind of problems, and of course you can find some plugins that can do it for you, my advice is to perform each edit manually but it’s up to you, just remember to not be too lazy! One important thing: if software houses decided to develop plugins to do this kind of editing it means that 1)<\/strong> it’s a very important passage 2)<\/strong> it’s a boring one \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Here you can find a quick summary in 3 points on different way to proceed:<\/p>\n