"Flat" mixes? Confused.

[dishevel]

@BentoSan

How hard are you pushing your keylocking out of interest ? Pushing your keylock too hard is pretty much a sure fire way of having pretty dull sounding mixes. I use keylock, but i don’t push it very hard, also if you can try not to use keylock in instances you can get away with it - like for instance if your mixing out of a beat and into some synths, don’t keylock the beat, it wont add any harmonic mixing to the mix at all and just make the beat sound not that fab. Only use it when you need it !

Interesting – I’ve never thought of this. I have keylock on ALWAYS. Hmmmmmm!

[photojojo]

@BentoSan

How hard are you pushing your keylocking out of interest ? Pushing your keylock too hard is pretty much a sure fire way of having pretty dull sounding mixes.

What kind of percentage are you talking about? I never really go much over say 1.5%…I think, just a guestimation.

[BentoSan]

2 semitones is the absolute maximum, some people will only goto 1 semitones though.

Personally i go with sticking to 1 semitone for better results.

Some again don’t use keylock at all, these people hate what it does to their tracks, i don’t really blame them for it either.

[dishevel]

thought you guys might find this interesting. from Jaytech (@jaytechmusic):

“@djdishevel Yep, I do post-processing on my mixes for sure. I use Cytomic’s The Glue compressor, a standard comp, EQ and a limiter.”

obviously the caveat is that if someone like myself (incredibly limited post-proc skills) tried to wield these tools, the results could be disastrous.