Which of these production techniques do you struggle with more? Answering this will help us focus our teaching for any future webinars for y'all! A) Compression B) EQ Comment below 👇👇👇

I’m having a hard time getting rid of sibilance by using an EQ plug in which is said to be good, without it making the audio sound fuzzier or almost like compressed too much. So rly I have a sibilance issue I’m tryna get rid of without effect anything else, anybody know more than me lmao?

Hi everybody, listening to my revised mix on my phone and I hear a lot of issues, but the one that is most prominent is distortion in the high end. I've composed a piece with mainly an old vintage analog string synth- which makes the most beautiful sounds, but as I've pumped up some of the violinesque sounding synths they've begun to distort pretty terribly on playback through the iphone. I'm expecting it to be less than perfect on that device but this is clearly something that needs attention. Any and all suggestions and thoughts on this are so very welcome. Thank you! Here is the section in question-

I don't know if anybody has noticed yet, after I finished my mix, I tried it out on a couple of systems, the main thing I noticed was the translation and the fact it doesn't distort on my phone, so in the Day 3 training session @Caleb Loveless said.......Secret tip. Be at -15 RMS after EQ. -12 RMS after compression, -9 RMS after limiting. And thus it turns out, these do appear to be the magic numbers.....

Hi folks. Just spent some time yesterday and today to duplicate my project and do a volume only mix. My main take away from the sessions was how important it was to get a great mix with just volume prior to going in with the plugins so wanted to give that a bash! https://www.dropbox.com/s/y51woamm40ebx5w/Took%20Your%20Time%20-%20Steve%20Allen%20-%20Volume%20Only%20Mix%283%29.mp3?dl=0 Hoping to work through the mix process over the next few days if I can using this as a basis. Was really insightful doing a volume only mix as I realised some of my original levels were all over the place section to section 😅 (my initial rough volume balance must have been very rough!) So this will provide a much better baseline for my mix once I start EQing and compressing. Started by doing a good gain stage to get everything -12db to -18db ish and then went through my vocal tracks and fixed any volume bumps and dips manually in place on the track with the crop tool etc (think this step is called clip gain?) and cross faded the bits together after to avoid the popping that can occur - x button in studio one!). Applied Waves Vocal Rider after this also just as an extra leveling step & I have also used Waves Tune Real Time to do some light, natural style tuning correction on my vocals. Then set all faders to off, kick to 0 and went through to get the levels nice + some panning i.e. rhythm guitars & vocal doubles set left and right. Hope this is sounding ok/good at this stage. If I am brave I will bake these volume changes in for the next stage! Any feedback greatly appreciated 🙏 (this track has been my pet project for a yr or 2 while learning to record, produce, edit and mix so will be great to move forwards with it) Am looking forward to doing EQ, compression and some delay/reverb next and then some automation to finish it off mix-wise. ✌️