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Some basses sound fine, but one or two notes just bloom and sustain too loud and too long. Where I have the most trouble is with booming bass notes. Basically I go into Logic's automation and adjust volume using my mouse, then I use things like the curve tool to smooth out changes. I think there's a way to use them to write the automation, but I've never done it. I use Superior Drummer to set basic levels with their mixer, then go into the midi and adjust beat velocity for most everything, so it has a more natural dynamic.
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I do the same with bass and electric guitar but in small doses. I use Logic, and generally tweak small sections with automation, usually lowering a line and occasionally taming a few words that jump out. BTW, the mix sounded "good" with zero automation, but it was too flat and didn't achieve what I knew it could without the automation. You can obviously tell they are done by fader and not drawing lines. For me, a mix is not done if I look at the volume moves display and see flat lines. I love compression, but I want life, movement and surprises in the music I mix.Įven this simple Ac Gtrs, Bass, Piano piece has automation moves all over. Sometimes that's cool, but it's not the way live music sounds to me. If someone is using compression and mouse break points to automate and level out their mixes, the music tends to end up very static. After the compression flattens things out, almost everything gets automation moves. PS - compression gets used more for the sonics it imparts and for transient taming - ABSOLUTELY NOT for holding stuff in place so I don't need to automate things. Plus, I mixed with consoles and tape machines for years, and there's nothing to see. I'll look at waveforms, but by the time I get there, I am intimately familiar with the vocal, so I don't really need to watch waveforms. I am actually more accurate with the trackball. I'll use an Artist Mix to do that, or a Kensington (large ball) trackball. Then I start automating with a fader to dial it in. I make sure the track is solid, and the vocal is sitting where I want it. I might start with a vocal and get everything laid in around it, but when it comes to starting in with the fader moves, the instruments come first, vocals last. If I start with the vocal first, I'll be redoing it almost certainly. I automate with the vocal sitting WITHIN the mix.
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It depends a lot on the compression, but I generally do not go heavy handed with a sta-level or smashed LA2a or something like that on the vocal to get it to sit. Vocals come last for me, and yes, I ride every syllable or whatever it needs.