TheRiot wrote:Give us an example give us a link to your of your beats that you've mixed this way and what do you mean peak at 0? Do you mean set your drums to minus 8 and when they are at there loudest point they would be at 0?
Their loudest point would be peaking at about -8, the fader will be at 0db. Which leaves a lot of headroom on each channel.
Having each element peaking near 0db, doesn't leave a lot of headroom so you have to pull down the master fader to allow enough for a mastering engineer to play with. You can do this but apparently it's not very accurate in a DAW, according to the article anyway, i'm only relaying what I've read there... Due to the inaccuracy of the reading you may still be getting little peaks here and there which can cause issues.
Basically he's set out rough volume guidelines to get consistent results each time you make a tune, allowing enough room for a mastering engineer to work their magic.
Give it a go yourself, like I said i've personally found each element has more room to breathe. It doesn't sound like everything is competing for volume, although obviously the outcome is far quieter than normal, but that's to be expected. I have no idea how or why it works. It won't make much difference if I post any tunes because you have nothing to reference them too, in terms of previous mixes.
