@Monroe Neese the only proof the video exists

@Monroe Neese no worries when I saw it I thought the same thing 😅

@Berlin RedluX I think there is a time and place for layering in the creative process. Knowing when to and when not to is important. I agree that finding good sample is key but you mentioned something even more important, knowing where to find them! Shoot, organizing them This is deff an area of opportunity for me as a producer. I have thousands of samples in my drive that I need to sit down and go through and really refine my “own “ sample library, I’ve deff neglected them since I lean so heavily on vsts and like to play the instruments myself. Here’s what I know, at the end of the day if its close to the reference and we’re training our ears to hear whats happening in the song we’ll get better at finding those good samples.

@Monroe Neese

@Berlin RedluX thats the part that was confusing ahaha I’m like okay so in this scenario that low end is good? Theres is a time and place for that I guess

@Agnes Zareba I’ve been watching a lot of their older videos, they’ve got good content even back in 2019

-7 to -9 lufs , -1.0db, thats industry standard. You can go higher for certain genres like EDM. But honestly, your reference is a pretty good guide to where you need to be at in lufs. Keep in mind this stuff changes ALL. THE. TIME. since streaming became popular.

Theres a few things you can do 1. You can lower the gain on it and when you’re clipping pay attention that you don’t hear any distortion. 2. You can ask them to mix lower (-6 db) 3. You can ask them if they removed processing from their mix bus. Sometimes they bake limiters and compressors from the mix bus and dont realize it, that can eat up headroom.