Dynamic Range: Everything You Need to Know to Improve Your Mixes

Dynamic range refers to the difference between the quietest and loudest parts of a song. A higher dynamic range can make mixes more punchy and clear but you’ll sacrifice loudness to leave more dynamics. You do not want to crush your dynamics though or you will ruin your mix. You can also benefit from working in higher bit depths to gain greater dynamic range on your faders.

In this video, I will teach you everything you need to know about dynamic range and explore. I will cover everything you need to know, from the basics of dynamic range to advanced techniques for maximizing it in your mixes.

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Dynamics in Music

Gain Staging

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[manykzdj]

U r great teacher, channel deserves much more views!!!

[ROCKINGMAN]

Interesting stuff. I take it that compression, limiters and gains were used when mixing older music from the 50's and 60's.
Was a recording mixed after the song was recorded?

[Zickcermacity]

40 or 50 years ago, this 9:25 would have gotten an engineer FIRED, regardless of who requested such treatment of the audio.

[southernman]

I think you can use the Oxford inflator as a clipper only plugin by turning on the red clip 0 db button and turning down the effects slider all the way with effect green light on. Use the input gain to push the signal into the clipper and adjust output as necessary. The effects slider I believe is used to add saturation.

[misterbiggs]

wow this was a masterclass of the basics often often not taught on this platform thanks new subscriber!

[maettarecords]

man, you are great! thank you so much

[zeroaverage]

Dynamic range also effects the separation of sounds; not just the separations of frequencies, but the separation of timbre within a frequency. It's much more complicated than the range of 'loudness'?

[FCUKBROS]

cant find the dynamic range list ! Really need it. Do you have an another link or list ?

[ChimaAnya]

Bro how can you compare two things and not gain match them !?