Fixing bloat with multiband compression

27:33Charlie runs us through processing solutions for his messed-up premaster. “The limiter is only hitting 1dB of gain reduction, but you can hear that the kick is too ‘lumpy’, because it’s too loud in the mix.” Charlie dials in a bit of multiband compression with Pro-MB, focusing a band at around 100Hz to pull back the kick’s dynamics in the mix, then capping the excessive treble with a top band of compression. “This helps bring us back to how the better premaster sounds, by evening out things that create problems. Otherwise, if we were to add a highshelf [boost] to the ‘bad’ master, those hi-hats would come out more than the snare, and you’ve got an imbalance in the top end that’s not going to get brighter in a good way.”