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Creating Headroom for Dialogue (Tip)

Feb 17, 2014

Tricks of the Mix: Find out how to bring that extra something to your mix using Waves plugins, brought to you by Waves Artists, Product Specialists and enthusiasts like yourself.

"One of my quick mix favorites is the C6 Multiband Compressor. When I’m facing extreme time crunch, I sometimes have to resort to mixing aids. For this I use the C6. I double it up, running the two instances in sequence and turning them into a 10-to-12-band sidechain. Then, by feeding the dialogue into the key input, I gently use the C6 to compress the music and the effects in the offending bands only. This automatically opens up 3 dB of extra room for the dialogue, already creating a bit of an auto-mix."

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