Problem with mix - goes quiet

Heya,

Mixing a track of mine in Pro Tools. Sounds fine until the part where it goes from quiet drums / synths / guitars into two droning Ebow guitar parts and the drums go loud (are meant to anyway).

When the track hits that change it kinda drops volume (i want it to be louder and more epic than the rest of the track)... but it does the opposite.

If i mute the drums, everything becomes louder again. Same if i mute the Ebow guitars... the drums and everything else go loud again... but when i have the Ebows and drums together it goes quiet. Like they're canceling each other out.

The Ebows are panned 1 each way hard left/right and the drums are panned in between that (drums are only 3 tracks... kick, snare, hats).

Any ideas?

seems to be a peak overload issue. try to turn down the volume of the drums or the guitars. you can always turn up the master volume later to still get that "epic" feeling

Cheers for the response.

I'll try that. I've also been looking online and might look into inverting the phase as well if needed.

Thanks.

DustByte wrote:Heya,

Mixing a track of mine in Pro Tools. Sounds fine until the part where it goes from quiet drums / synths / guitars into two droning Ebow guitar parts and the drums go loud (are meant to anyway).

When the track hits that change it kinda drops volume (i want it to be louder and more epic than the rest of the track)... but it does the opposite.

If i mute the drums, everything becomes louder again. Same if i mute the Ebow guitars... the drums and everything else go loud again... but when i have the Ebows and drums together it goes quiet. Like they're canceling each other out.

The Ebows are panned 1 each way hard left/right and the drums are panned in between that (drums are only 3 tracks... kick, snare, hats).

Any ideas?

What's on the mixbuss. If you have a compressor, try changing the ratio and /or threshold.

Additionally, check your sidechain settings. One could be triggering the other.

Thanks for the replies! You are all right... i had a master channel with an insert (in a poor mans attempt to push up the overall volume of the track).

It was compressing the track hard when it goes loud. So i took off that and turned down the Ebows and drums and now the track sounds awesome... the part in question goes huge as i wanted...

I should have worked that out myself

Appreciate the insight.

^^^ Sooooooo...what, you're check'n everybody's knowledge base or something.

Just kidding slim.

Really just exposing my own short sighted knowledge

Sounds like a bass power issue. Try eq'ing your individual tracks to curb some of that bass/lo-mid going into your master mix bus compressor. A sub cut may help too.