Odd mixing idea
Posted: 12 Jun 2018
So I was just thinking...
Since there's the method where you mix everything as a start-off to pink noise, and then make adjustments;
and since there was my idea of setting a sound's loudness to a -16 LUFS pink noise sample, and whatever goes over that, gets multi-band saturated;
then what if we set a kick drum's loudness according to the sub bass ranges of both the kick and the pink noise, instead of a total loudness?
So, you isolate both sounds between 20-80 Hz for example on parallel channels, then set the fader of the kick drum, so that the sub bass is approximately as loud as the sub bass of the pink noise.
Similarly, you listen to some high frequency range in case of a high hat, and set loudness accordingly. (Obviously, when you're done, you turn off the isolated frequencies, and keep the set level of the whole sound.)
Aka, by the most important frequency ranges of the given sound. When it comes to the complete mix, and something is strong or weak in the given sound, you could equalize its 'other' frequencies, but the core frequency would be in place.
Pretty smart, huh? (Well, in my imagination it seems good. Maybe I should test now and then. xD - But hey! It happened before that a stupid idea inspired something clever.)
Since there's the method where you mix everything as a start-off to pink noise, and then make adjustments;
and since there was my idea of setting a sound's loudness to a -16 LUFS pink noise sample, and whatever goes over that, gets multi-band saturated;
then what if we set a kick drum's loudness according to the sub bass ranges of both the kick and the pink noise, instead of a total loudness?
So, you isolate both sounds between 20-80 Hz for example on parallel channels, then set the fader of the kick drum, so that the sub bass is approximately as loud as the sub bass of the pink noise.
Similarly, you listen to some high frequency range in case of a high hat, and set loudness accordingly. (Obviously, when you're done, you turn off the isolated frequencies, and keep the set level of the whole sound.)
Aka, by the most important frequency ranges of the given sound. When it comes to the complete mix, and something is strong or weak in the given sound, you could equalize its 'other' frequencies, but the core frequency would be in place.
Pretty smart, huh? (Well, in my imagination it seems good. Maybe I should test now and then. xD - But hey! It happened before that a stupid idea inspired something clever.)