mini_molko
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- Mar 7, 2008
Basically, I'm working in Cubase 5 and getting confused about a couple of things concerning levels, decibels and limiting. Firstly, I've been having problems with getting my subs to punch through on the mix, I'd tried compressing them and then cranking up the gain through the compressor. This just resulted in maxing out my overall mix output, I then tried putting a limiter over the compressed sub and for some reason, the sub now comes through at a decent level (And pretty high on a spectrum analyser compared to the other frequencies in the track), but it isn't maxing out my overall mix output... :/
I'm not that familiar with limiting and I'm still getting my head around compression, so could someone please tell me how limiting achieves the effect of raising the volume without causing it to clip...?
Secondly, I don't really understand the concept of decibels... Is there a different system for measuring decibels when it comes to music, as I always thought 0dB was silence and the louder the sound the higher the decibel, yet a frenquency analyser seems to measure decibels in the opposite direction...
Also, to add to further confusion, if 0dB is the peak, then why does Cubase seem to clip out at about 12dB (According to a frequency analyser)?
These are probably all complete n00b questions and should be obvious to an amateur, but I guess they're things I never really picked up on when I started producing. :/
I'm not that familiar with limiting and I'm still getting my head around compression, so could someone please tell me how limiting achieves the effect of raising the volume without causing it to clip...?
Secondly, I don't really understand the concept of decibels... Is there a different system for measuring decibels when it comes to music, as I always thought 0dB was silence and the louder the sound the higher the decibel, yet a frenquency analyser seems to measure decibels in the opposite direction...
Also, to add to further confusion, if 0dB is the peak, then why does Cubase seem to clip out at about 12dB (According to a frequency analyser)?
These are probably all complete n00b questions and should be obvious to an amateur, but I guess they're things I never really picked up on when I started producing. :/