Less Is Moore

Less noise. More music.
Founder: @lorenmooremusic

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Mess is lore

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Say yes to yourself today.

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Don’t be afraid to be disruptive ⚡️

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Gain Stage is essentially another name for Volume Management.

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Look at the timeline of your idols’ career. Perhaps it could give insight to your own.

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Boost at 2.5kHz to enhance your lead vocal.

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Be patient and listen.

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Essentials: Sleep, water & open mind. 🤓

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Turning off spectrum analyzers in the Ableton EQ8 and Spectrum can help CPU usage.

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Start with -3dB to -4dBs when addressing harsh frequencies, then dial to its sweet spot.

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Ableton only: Be aware that anything panned passed 45 left and 45 right has a great chance of going out of phase.

You can achieve the same perceived width by panning 45 either way and increasing volume.

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Automate your effects, sweeps, risers and impacts for more drama and dynamics.

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EQ Trick: Do you feel like you've lost energy after EQing even though you've cleared away any harshness?
Try increasing the output of the EQ to compensate the average amount of reduction applied. 😉

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Tape saturation can be great to add glue, control harshness and add body to the low-end, but it may take away transient details that are essential to the mix.
Apply transient designing after to add back transients to the mid and high frequencies.

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Use "U" to minimize an Ableton track/channel.

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Highlight a part of the arrangement and hit "Z" to zoom into the selected area and work on fine details.

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Use a mid EQ bell to bring out the LV in a mix by boosting around 2K on the master.

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Mastering? Choose reference songs and start with simple EQing to help guide you in the right direction.

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Having difficulty making mixing decisions?
Quickly blend between a large amount of what you’re doing and return back to its default position until you close in on the ‘sweet spot’.

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The high-end is also important. Low-pass and/or shelf clashing and harsh frequencies.