Help Reaching Target LUFS For My Tracks
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There are a few ways of approaching this. One has recently been called Clip to Zero, but has been a Bass Music production technique for a long time. The essential principle is adding clipping/limiting to multiple busses in the mix, rather than waiting until you hit the master channel and trying to do it all there. Basically, increasing the loudness and maximisation of drums, bass, vocals, leads... etc separately, and then processing them all together on the master channel will obviously achieve a better result in terms of overall loudness.
Compression is obviously a very important effect if you want tracks to be loud. Intelligently compressing everything, including things like parallel effects chains and auxiliary/return channels will also help boost level. Only trying to maximise all the loudest signals in a mix will often have you running into problems, whereas paying more attention to quieter signals - adding both EQ and Compression to every effects return - can help significantly fill things out without causing the same peak level distortion.
updated by @ptmembership: 11/11/22 04:14:14PM