Hey guys, Ive been really trying to pay attention to my levels as of late, especially my pre fader levels and trying to get each track matched up as close as possible for clean mixes. Now that im really paying attention, I’ve noticed with certain effects like peak filter, my tracks can shoot up to unpredictable levels, resulting in shitty sounding peaked out transitions. I know its something I have to work around if I want to use the effects, and not necessarily a setting I can change or alter. I was wondering if you guys had any tips on how to, at least in a sense, work and maintain your levels with effects that are unpredictable? Any help or advice would be appreciated! Thank you!
you could always map the volume fader to the parameter knob aswell. set it on invert and relative with a low sensitivity like 15% (as a guess) so it drops the volume off a bit…
I’m not saying he should do an Ambient set during peak time, but working with dynamics helps a lot to create/enhance breakdowns. Knowing how each FX affect this is basic.
That’s the nature of effects though, surely…how good is an echo going to sound if it stays at the same level? By it’s very nature an echo gets louder, that’s what an echo is…etc etc.
It depends on your feedback and d/w setting how much the echo will add and for how long. Using the filter (in advanced) helps a lot to tame reverbs and delays.
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Just everyone’s ears in this case. Also want to be helpful and pass a link along that describes how much the volume will jump with each effect?
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I am being helpful, I’m telling you to get to know each effect. If the gain is rising that much, the problem is you, not an FX working the way it should. The same goes with the ones that lower it.
I don’t have a link to explain that directly, because it depends on a couple of variables how much is added, and I was talking about general fx usage, not Traktor.
