You will be able to know how the final product will sound even if you don't use compressor and limiters on your master while mixing. YOU SHOULD COMPRESS AND LIMIT TRACKS INDIVIDUALLY if needed and get a nice balance in volumes in your mix. It's tonnes harder to master a track when your're already bouncing around on the 0db line. The final mix should be at MOST -6db, preferably even a bit lower, and I'm talking about the whole finished mix, including everything that a song would contain.

I suggest learning how to mix your music the right way and you can learn a lot of what people pay a lot of money for from the University of Youtube ) Warning!!!* Any other way of working will result in the all too common amateur sounding digitally warped boo boo heard all over the web these days*ģ more cents - Loudness comes absolutely last and should only be addressed during the mastering stage of production when all of the recording, editing and mixing has been completed within a song or group of songs. Get it mastered or at worse case learn to do it yourself but its not as simple as just slapping a limiter on the mix to make it loud so attempt mastering at your own risk. Edit and mix everything together without trying to make the mix loud.

create your beat, and if necessary make a rough mix of the beat ie. The vocals should by ALL means be mixed together with the individual tracks of the beat and not a mixed down version of the beat. Your beats SHOULD NOT be mixed nor should you be using a limiter on them before any recording of vocals takes place because you are doing things out of the proper order of production. So basically, what am I missing in terms of getting a CLEAN AND LOUD mix on my beat and even final track after adding my vocals on top? Or should I just continue to keep using limiters in this situation? The main reason I am trying to stop using limiters is because I'm trying to learn better ways of mixing my vocals over my beats and if the beat is already at 0db, adding my vocals on top and mixing can be a hassle and make the final product sound not nearly as I intended. I've been told to not use limiters but as long as my beat does not reach over 0db should I be good? It does make my beats louder and with a compressor on the master channel it helps me fix the lows mids and highs and adjust them to my liking.Īny thoughts? I've tried using just a compressor to give my instrumentals a new approach but I'm not getting the real bump and power from my older beats. Whenever I add the limiter it really adds the power to the instrumental. I know loudness isn't everything but when I use only a compressor it doesn't get the job done. I've been using a limiter on my master channel when I make beats on FL Studio for maximum loudness.

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