This might be a bit off-topic, but I've been working on my drum sounds. I was pretty unhappy that snares + kickdrum ended up being really loud, so I'd turn down the drum sounds, so the hihat and cymbals also went down and couldn't compete with the guitars... Ended up splitting the drums into a bus per function, so I could control and possibly compress or effect the snare and kick separately.
Now I have wonderful crashes and hihats cutting through the guitars and bass, without the snare and kick overpowering everything. This also taught me some insights about balancing relative volume levels and/or lowering dominating buses against each other and compensating upwards on some upstream bus as necessary, which I think also improved the balance of the entire rhythm section.
Except, now I'm kind of unhappy with my kickdrum sound. Some of the bands I listen to and saw at the festival I just was on have some amazing, epic kick drum sounds. It's like a giant mountain troll hammering into the gates of a castle and - on the right PA - kicks you right in the gut, literally. We had a good laugh a few days that some dudes jacket moved with the kickdrum. My kickdrum currently sounds more like wet cardboard flopping against a wall though.
Besides that, I'm however looking at moving some of my notes on audio engineering on linux onto a blog to end up with something like Protondb at a smaller scale, as well as some of the steps and things to do to get audio plugins working on linux, what audio plugins work well, which I could not get to work. I am just realizing, I need to learn quite a bit more about wine, architectures and such to write good articles and ideas about this. But maybe that's my perfectionism speaking.
If you're reading this and are yelling "But what is the magic?", the magic is largely called yabridge. Many simpler plugins just work with that. It may not be up for professional audio engineering, but it certainly is up for home recording and dabbling around.
Now I have wonderful crashes and hihats cutting through the guitars and bass, without the snare and kick overpowering everything. This also taught me some insights about balancing relative volume levels and/or lowering dominating buses against each other and compensating upwards on some upstream bus as necessary, which I think also improved the balance of the entire rhythm section.
Except, now I'm kind of unhappy with my kickdrum sound. Some of the bands I listen to and saw at the festival I just was on have some amazing, epic kick drum sounds. It's like a giant mountain troll hammering into the gates of a castle and - on the right PA - kicks you right in the gut, literally. We had a good laugh a few days that some dudes jacket moved with the kickdrum. My kickdrum currently sounds more like wet cardboard flopping against a wall though.
Besides that, I'm however looking at moving some of my notes on audio engineering on linux onto a blog to end up with something like Protondb at a smaller scale, as well as some of the steps and things to do to get audio plugins working on linux, what audio plugins work well, which I could not get to work. I am just realizing, I need to learn quite a bit more about wine, architectures and such to write good articles and ideas about this. But maybe that's my perfectionism speaking.
If you're reading this and are yelling "But what is the magic?", the magic is largely called yabridge. Many simpler plugins just work with that. It may not be up for professional audio engineering, but it certainly is up for home recording and dabbling around.