yeah as stated before do it manually, might be a bit longer but ultimately having the control over it can mean you can make it sound better and more you!shakas wrote:I've got a couple simple Ableton questions that I should know, but I don't...if someone can help me:
-How do I do a drum 'flam' ? Reason's drum machine has a flam button that let's your hit do a tight fast little roll. Is there a certain way to do this in Ableton, or do I just make the grid small (like 1/64) and write in the flam/roll manually ?
-I was reading that you should mix your song/tracks to about -6db or so. I seriously don't know how to view exactly what db im at on each track (...or should i only be looking at the master.) I understand I can look at the volume meter, but that's not accurate. Should I have a spectrum analyser on everything ? Should I have a compressor or limiter at the end of everything to keep in down to the right level ?
you don't need to worry bout having each individual channel level hit -6db, you only need to worry about that on the master. what you should watch though is the little meters between each plugin, keep all of those in the green for each individual channel. you definitely shouldn't need a compressor or limiter to make sure things are at the right level you should just make sure they are, once you get into that mode you'll find that you automatically get things hitting to that level without even realising.
HOWEVER some people do mix their tracks into a compressor from the get-go, personally it's not something i ever found worked for me but there are plenty of people whom it does work for, but that is about a creative decision and how they feel it affects their sound rather than having it on there to make sure things are at the right level.
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