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Post by theshea on Mar 14, 2023 5:00:14 GMT -6
klanghelm VUMT deluxe also has a monomaker which works very good.
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Post by trakworxmastering on Mar 14, 2023 8:32:45 GMT -6
Do you guys have a lot of stereo bass instruments? I only have kick and bass guitar usually and since those are both mono sources, they get centered naturally.. Much of the online advice to mono the lows says to mono everything below 120Hz, or even as high as 300Hz. Now in a Rock track that's going to significantly suck the weight out of panned rhythm guitars and toms. Chunky guitars in particular can have lots of energy down to 50Hz or so, and floor toms as well. What most people seem to be unaware of is that the corner frequencies are only meaningful if you specify the slope of the filter, and nobody ever does. The advice dates back to the analog days when cutting engineers used elliptical filters with very shallow slopes of 6dB per octave, so with a corner frequency of 120Hz the sides will only be down -6dB at 60Hz. Hardly "mono" at all. But people take literally "mono below 120Hz" and make unnecessary compromises to the warmth of their tracks IMO.
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Post by mcirish on Mar 14, 2023 8:52:52 GMT -6
I'm pretty conservative on this. I do mono-ize frequencies below 80HZ on things that I master, unless it is an orchestral recording. In those cases, basses are further right and I don't want to smear the orchestra's balance. For rock music, the only thing really living below 80hz is the kick and bass and I want them in the center anyway. I agree that moving that frequency higher can really thin out hard panned instruments and cloud up the center as well. I also use a HPF on most channels but it's never anything drastic. If I can hear it doing something, I just back it off. This usually gets rid of ambient low end leaking in from outside or the odd foot stomps that are picked up through the floor. Anyway, there are too many ways to screw up a mix by being heavy handed with anything. Moderate settings seem to work best for me.
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