Increase the volume of your mixes up to 5 times!

midilance · Post by **midilance** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:52 am

It is my understanding that those mixes made the Guinness Book of World Records for the lowest dynamic range of any recording up until that time.

jsd540 · Post by **jsd540** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:01 am

You are all very silly, I have just spewed coffe out of my nose.

Thanks , I needed that

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:50 am

jsd540 wrote:You are all very silly, I have just spewed coffe out of my nose.
Thanks , I needed that

Hey, it's even more effective if you suck it up through your nose, jsd540.

I've heard that a little caffeine can facilitate squeezing that last poofteenth of a dB out of your dynamic range.

mon · Post by **mon** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:07 am

Will the MW Limiter do anything if you already record with volume on 11?

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:29 am

mon wrote:Will the MW Limiter do anything if you already record with volume on 11?

I'd speculate that if you cranked the MWL all the way and snorted the caffeine as per my suggestion, you'd have to at least come close.

The trouble you'll have here is that 11 is hard to beat.
That's why the Spinal Tapsters hit a brick wall at 11.

SixStringGeek · Post by **SixStringGeek** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:57 am

Seems to be a trend...

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/33549

HCMarkus · Post by **HCMarkus** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:18 am

polysoundman wrote:

i like pushing up the volume of my mixes till they sound like a leaf blower....

Since I have been using MW Limiter 3x in series with MW EQ at +12 across all frequency bands, my yard has never looked better.

kelldammit · Post by **kelldammit** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:09 pm

after the 3x mwlimiter, and mweq, you should put several instances of bitcrusher. this will vastly increase your headroom and keep down all those rowdy bits in front...
for those purists that prefer the sound of an analog leafblower or chainsaw, this ain't the ticket. it works for me, though, as i tend to prefer the tone of early-80's 4 bit digital weedwhackers. though, there truly is nothing that sounds quite like a well-tuned leafblower...

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:33 pm

mon wrote:Will the MW Limiter do anything if you already record with volume on 11?

Your volume goes up to 11? Mine only goes up to 10.99999999...

It's that last little trillionth that does the trick. Just don't go over that, or you'll have hell to pay in the mastering session.

Shooshie

bradswan · Post by **bradswan** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:22 pm

But will it make my mixes sound 15X better?!!!!

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:31 am

HCMarkus wrote:polysoundman wrote:
i like pushing up the volume of my mixes till they sound like a leaf blower....
Since I have been using MW Limiter 3x in series with MW EQ at +12 across all frequency bands, my yard has never looked better.

LOL!

kelldammit wrote:after the 3x mwlimiter, and mweq, you should put several instances of bitcrusher. this will vastly increase your headroom and keep down all those rowdy bits in front...
for those purists that prefer the sound of an analog leafblower or chainsaw, this ain't the ticket. it works for me, though, as i tend to prefer the tone of early-80's 4 bit digital weedwhackers. though, there truly is nothing that sounds quite like a well-tuned leafblower...

Kell knows his garden tools.

bradswan wrote:But will it make my mixes sound 15X better?!!!!

Well, bradswan, I'll bet they'd sound at least 15 times more like a leafblower.

mon · Post by **mon** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:14 pm

monkey man wrote:I've heard that a little caffeine can facilitate squeezing that last poofteenth of a dB out of your dynamic range.

Shooshie wrote:Your volume goes up to 11? Mine only goes up to 10.99999999...

It's that last little trillionth that does the trick. Just don't go over that, or you'll have hell to pay in the mastering session.

Shooshie

so, it is the ape's fault then...now you tell me.

HeadMaster · Post by **HeadMaster** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:05 pm

Shooshie wrote:
mon wrote:Will the MW Limiter do anything if you already record with volume on 11?
Your volume goes up to 11? Mine only goes up to 10.99999999...

It's that last little trillionth that does the trick. Just don't go over that, or you'll have hell to pay in the mastering session.

Shooshie

You need the Sonalksis TBK3, it ACTUALLY goes to 11...

http://sonalksis.com/index.php?section_id=104

. . .
HM

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:20 pm

HeadMaster wrote:You need the Sonalksis TBK3, it ACTUALLY goes to 11...

http://sonalksis.com/index.php?section_id=104

. . .
HM

My goodness! This modern technology! Getting a volume knob to actually go up to 11. That's a full number past the maximum standard. How DO they do it?

Shooshie

[edit] wait a minute.... I didn't see no 11 in the picture. Is this some kind of a joke? There's a band called Spinal Tap. Now THEIR equipment actually DOES go to 11. I saw it once in a movie. Really. I mean, they actually showed it. It was awesome, dude. I'd try to get that system in my DAW, but DP actually goes even farther. It goes into the 60's or 80's or something. But their engineers must have been high. They got it backward. To make it louder, you have to turn it down to zero. I just tell people it's a new scientific system whereby less is more. And they STILL want it to go up to 11. Just can't please some folks.

Shooshie

Appalachian Boy · Post by **Appalachian Boy** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:41 am

I came to this thread with a feeling of excitement...and left with a stupid grin

Damn unicorn's with your tricky sense of humor!

(my guitar amp goes to 12

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