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Transient Question/ Hate the Snare
In article aht writes:
I've got a mix, I hate the snare...it's a done deal though. I'm stuck with it
for now.
I took the stuff over to a respected Mastering guy in town to do 2 tunes for me
as a free evaluation.
He basically thought it was okay just too loud...which it is. So he zero'd in
on the transients(is that the right word? I dunno) where it was spiking &
brought a few of them down. He said that would work only it would take a long
time doing every backbeat. So.............I did it at home in Nuendo, I was
very careful & only grabbed the minimum part of each snare smack....brought 'em
down 2db.
I assume that when looking at the "grass" you saw the snare sticking
above everything else. Or were there other things that were as high as
the snare, just not at the same time?
If you just reduced the highest peaks (which happened to be the snare)
by 2 dB, this is essentially the same as applying 2 dB of peak
limiting. I'm surprised that the mastering engineer didn't try that
first. Or maybe he did and it didn't sound right because it was taking
other things besides the snare down.
Anyway, if it sounds better after your surgery, that's a good thing,
not something to worry about.
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