would you recommend a sonic maximizer?

[phil]

anyone? if so what models are good?

 

[Sick Wid It]

I would recommend sharpening up your mixing skills before using one of them. If you do choose to use it, use it in moderation! When you mess with exciters, theres a fine line between enhancing your audio and destroying it.

 

[phil]

when mixing a beat to sell do i want to get the levels as hot as possible or do i want to leave some room for the artists' engineer to adjust that?

 

[Sick Wid It]

If you are giving them the beat with all the sounds split onto separate tracks then get those as hot as possible without any clipping. If you're giving them a mixdown of the beat then just do your best to make it sound good and give them a small bit of head room. Maybe like -2db. That way they have a little room to fuck with it on their own and hopefully won't have to have you mix it down again.

 

[HERESY]

WHERE IN YOUR CHAIN DO YOU WANNA USE IT? IF U LIKE A "COLORED" SOUND GO FOR IT. AS SUGGESTED USE IN MODERATION. ARE YOU USING A BBE?? IF SO WHICH MODEL?

THE CAP KING

PS THEY HAVE A SOFT VERSION OF THE BBE ALSO.