the4thImpulse wrote:You know it doesn't always have to be an effect as large as those big room house songs. I am fairly sure even he means everything should have as little as 1 dB of gain reduction with a sidechained compressor. You don't even hear the pumping at that point it just brings out the kick (or whatever element you are sidechained too) just that little bit more.
I realize that's probably what he meant.
But the way he said it, free of qualifications, as a mode of advice for beginning producers, will not be taken in that respect. Much the same way telling a novice producer that reverb should be applied to every track that's not bass. Yes, applying minimal reverb to every track helps to bring a sense of space into the mix, and frequently proper use is all but undetectable as a consciously audible artifact, but that's not what I said to do. I just said put reverb on everything, which will be applied overmuch by a novice producer, and their mix will suffer drastically as a result.
I'm for learning to mix without any effects before you start messing around with them. Starting out with being told that you should use them on every track will distort the fundamentals.