No no, please let's keep it off topic and keep shitting on Khruangbin, because I can't stand them. Some guy in a terrible wig half-heartedly noodling up and down one string on a strat over a rinky dink one measure drum machine beat and we're supposed to think it's.....anything?

Cardholder wrote: Sun Feb 15, 2026 2:52 pm the bass playing is optional

Literally LOL'd at this. So good.

Steinberg Spectralayers has a fully functioning 30 day demo, get that and run the 'unmix drums' thingie, it'll give you separate tracks for kick, snare, toms, cymbals. Probably your best/cleanest option IMO.

Chris Garges was the fucking best. I miss him like crazy. Almost 4 years he's been gone now. Have a little shrine to him in my studio. I take comfort knowing he's talking FM Steve's ear off about some microphone or another right now.

Absolutely yes, no problem. Sounds like a cool project!

For that sort of thing (working on my own at the moment), the best way to really know if you've got the overall dynamics right is to listen to it front to back. Which is of course time consuming! Needle dropping around is a good quick way to ...

Ok I got one - is it possible to slightly raise the level of section of a song relative to another in mastering or would that be a disaster?

Not talking about not making the chorus bump in a mix - just wondering how it would work to clean up the other side of dynamics where you’ve got a bunch of ...

if done professionally, I can understand the balance of doing personally preferable things vs elevating what's given to you. Curious what those of you doing this professionally approach this?


Doing it professionally, it's entirely about elevating what I'm given, it's not really about what I ...

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The short, simple answer is just keep the peaks under 0dbfs (i.e. no clipping) and it'll be fine. I'm going to adjust the levels anyway so it's hitting my chain at the right level.

When I mix, I try to keep the peaks around -6dbfs, and the average is probably around -18ish, but that's just ...

I remember hearing hype about AF


Based on the name, I imagined them being skinny white belted hipsters from Brooklyn playing dancy punk tunes. First time I actually heard them was SNL and it's this bug-eyed dude over emoting and singing to the back row like he's Springsteen at Madison Square ...

I'm doing something that I fear might be damaging my tube amplifier, my preamps or both. I have a drip-edge 50w Bassman head that I run into a Bugera PS1 attenuator . I bridge the bass and normal channels and turn them both up to 10. I go out of the amp into the 4 ohm input in the attenuator. I ...