Timeline for Are there any downsides to using dynamic EQ when mixing?
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| Sep 17, 2020 at 11:31 | comment | added | Doktor Mayhem♦ | That same side-chain ducking wiping out everything in the mix for a fraction of a beat still happens in various genres. It seems popular to them, although I cannot listen to it for very long without feeling very disoriented. Some current Norwegian and Dutch artists use it. | |
| Sep 10, 2020 at 12:21 | vote | accept | ekjcfn3902039 | ||
| Sep 9, 2020 at 18:28 | comment | added | ekjcfn3902039 | Thanks for the info! I'll google it to see what it sounds like. I'd imagine one would use dynamic eq to duck out a bit but not completely kill the volume. Guess I never thought about that scenario :) | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 18:15 | comment | added | Olli | @ekjcfn3902039 I think the genre which Tetsujin might be reffereing to is called jump style. Whats going on there is when the kick drum hits, the volume of the baseline is going all the way down and when the kick fades out, the volume of the baseline comes back up. This is called sidechaining. For this particular genre it is used very concise and giving the music some 'drive'. But this technique can also be used (not only on drums or bass) in a sutle way to make some 'room' in the mix for other tracks to stand more out. | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 18:02 | comment | added | Olli | @ekjcfn3902039 I guess this might help to make it sound more clean, but could eventually lead to making it sound 'clinical'. I think it would steal away the 'human' or 'natural' factor of the sound. The same way too much quantization can make a groove sound robotic and stiff. | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 17:23 | comment | added | ekjcfn3902039 | I wonder if that's more a product of attack/release timings or eq. Interesting nonetheless! | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 16:58 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Maybe 10 years ago or so, there was a whole flash-in-the-pan 'genre' of EDM where every kick drum, the entire BT would dive out of the way & take half a beat to come back to full volume. It sounded like $h1t. You can go too far. | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 16:26 | comment | added | ekjcfn3902039 | Thanks. I don't have a specific song I'm mixing in this scenario. I'm just wondering more about what would happen if someone had the time and CPU to do something like this. Would it eventually sound awesome or completely weird. In theory the tracks would no longer interfere with each other (if they ever did) by doing this | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 14:58 | history | edited | Olli | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 9, 2020 at 14:50 | history | answered | Olli | CC BY-SA 4.0 |