Nobody does know the real secret of sausage fattener.Ĭould you upload a mix (or a part of a mix) on which we can try? Some people say Dadalife's sausage fattener is a great replacement for a limiter because it does compression, clipping and limiting at once.
Use a software clipper to take a dB or 2 of the loudest peaks.Ĥ. Use tape saturation (like U-he Satin or even Fabfilter saturn)ģ. It helps getting things louder but preserve transients.Ģ. You already use harmonic excitement.ġ.parallel compression compress the hell out of your song and add that to the uncompressed signal.
If you listen to a flute and a chainsaw on the same volume, you will experience the chainsaw as being louder because of the distortion. Distortion on acoustic guitar is a big mistake, for example. Low frequencies are easily distorted while limiting and you will be amazed how much low frequencies are reduced on commercial loud songs.ĭistortion is a good way to give the feel of loudness, of course only if it fits the song. If you apply three times 2 dB of gain reduction, it will sound less destructive than 1 compressor doing 6 dB of gain reduction.
Even from the arrangement the ever so popular ducking in house music gives a funky touch, but it's also handy to not have the bassline and kick playing at the same time, for example.Ī good tip is to use different stages of compression but very light you can put a bit of compression on the kick, a bit on the drum buss and a bit while mastering. Preparing a loud master starts from the beginning.