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“That track felt like a velociraptor stomped through it.” When you want to have fun with it, you can use any noun as a description. If a sound is “thick” or “has body,” it describes the bass frequencies within the audio mix. We use warmth to describe mixes with harmonic density, while cold terminologies are used for lighter harmonies. When you speak with sound engineers, you’ll hear plenty of terms that ultimately deal with our familiarity with sound. It contributes to “spikiness” (which isn’t a bad thing in moderation), not fatness.Īlso, if you’re limiting your song and then sending it to a mastering engineer, do listen to the difference between your limited / non-limited song…do the drums appear way too snappy in the non-limited version? If they do, you may want to tone down the transient emphasis a little.How would you describe the tone and quality of your latest audio mix? It’s also good to understand that transient emphasis is not really what makes for “fat” drums at all. Even if you want your drums to be snappy, aim for a “round” tone instead of crazy 10 dB peaks if you’re getting wild with transient emphasis, you may use a saturator or a clipper to cut off the useless crazy peaks anyways (carefully listen to what you’re doing and do a lot of on/off). But it’s the job of the limiter to prevent peaks from going over the ceiling. Why is this? Well, sure enough when you’re not limiting the song and you boost transients, you hear they may appear super popping and lound – they get very “peaky”.

I run it thru the existing mastering chain, and this may result in a master where you hear no difference in terms of level of the drums. But once I get the new mix, what I hear that what’s been done is transient emphasis instead of raising the actual level of drums. What am I getting at? Sometimes it happens that after the first master, the producer says he wants to raise the level of the drums in the mix as he wants them to be louder in the master. But it’s good to understand that when it comes to mastering and limiting, you WILL hit a wall at some point regarding transient level. These days, it’s easy to overdo transients with any transient designer. Quick though of the day regarding transients / level of drums in the mix.