More Pop More Style! Works In Progress Teaser

[VMNP]

Stunning work everyone, well done.

[payback3000]

I will be wading through the subs thread in the next few weeks and chasing folks for updates to see if this is a goer for a full CD...be warned I can be quite the pest.

[dave_van_damn]

Fantastic stuff!

Just a quick question to the contributors - do you add compression to each individual track or to the overall finished mix? These tracks sound way 'fatter' and professional then anything I record but I never use compression (don't know how to!).

[payback3000]

You really need to use compression on a track. If you want to make your kick more prominent - compression on that - or onthe drum tracks as a group. I struggle with compression. best to look for methods of compression on a particular sound and apply it to the sound to se how it works. ideally if you have compressed a sound successfuly you should be able to have the volume of that track lower than before but the sound should cut through. There is an alternative to standard compression that I use as I find it easier - but I've forgotton what the plug in is called. Anyhow chorus, delays and layering different takes with 'fatten' a sound'. Compression really just compresses par of a sounds dynamic range I think..try layering different snare sounds for a fatter snare or adding chorus / mod delays to parts to beef them up.

Not sure if folks compress whole tacks after this at mixdown though...I've not tried that.

[The_LHC]

[The_LHC]

Is that an Alice Cooper sample in the second track?

[payback3000]

[kwvp]

Agree re compression on different tracks, especially guitars and vox. And normalizing the various WAVs beforehand too. "Maximiser" I think is the name you were think of, right Payback?

EQ and compression on the final track for me too.

[kwvp]

And yes, The Penny Licks track is upsetting and brilliant in equal measure..

[VMNP]