Lucem Ferre said:

You can mix the acoustic FL Slayer to the Hardcore too, get some great shit out of it. Hardcore is great for some industrial distortion though, for that crispy OG CombiChrist sound. That and the distortion preset for the Fruity Love Philter. I also, before I got the full version, used to use Green Machine too. Green Machine is like a shittier Hardcore. Green Machine is to Hardcore like Gsnap is to AutoTune.

love philter can pull off some crazy shit. 

the a/d converters on my pc, and within the fl architecture, are substandard as hell.  despite its useful features, edison really doesnt cut it.

this is a major shortcoming, if fl is all youve got.  lucky for me, i have my roland, and that is where all vocals are laid down.  from that, i can import the takes as full quality audio clips, and proceed.  thats if i want to bring vocal takes into fl at all. 

this technique isnt gonna help you that much, though, unless youre ready to drop a couple grand on studio equipment. 

to elaborate, the roland is a 16-track recorder, prearranged as 6 mono, 5 stereo.  each track has 16 vtracks, useful for alternate takes, overdubbing, and the like.

but, with the added benefit of two extra tracks that are wholly dedicated to mastering.  also, a virtual mastering room, through which i can build a perfect disc image.  this way, i can burn a master cd of very high quality without having to wait for conversion.  really, really helpful. 

well, in one step, yeah.  usually takes a few listens. 

these days, most cats dont need that kind of quality, they are mainly used to creating individual songs, then immediately putting them out there. 

with the decline of physical media, i cant really blame them, i suppose.  but its not my style, i like the whole album to gel. 

pro style. 

to do an album on flstudio, id try to get a full, final mixdown for each song, render them, import as clips, then arrange, level, eq if needed, and run the whole mob, dynamicly, through maximus.  it would almost certainly require mad automation. 

i still cant see a way around the marker problem, though.  and im pretty sure that fl has no way of creating a disc image.  so, theres no toc, and the whole thing would render and burn as a single, long ass song. 

maybe.  i havent tried, what with the roland, i never had to. 

wmp for sure.  never tested itunes, but i cant see it not degrading.

i believe that compression is another thing thats extremely overused.  if i can get away with it, i use no compression at all.  if not, sparingly. 

maximus is better for this, as compression occurs only once, during the mastering phase. 

the thing about compression is, it utterly destroys dynamic range in favor of a bump in total volume.  think of all the songs you hear nowadays [underground or on the radio] where the vocalist sounds like they are singing through a cardboard tube.  or the ducking effect you mentioned earlier.

on the radio, its even worse, because just about every radio station is compressing shit further, because the dumbasses dont know what theyre doing.  some engineer or station manager does some quick test work with his favorite song, then puts a label up that says, 'dont touch these knobs', so the djs wont fuck with it.  never realizing that every song is different, and most of them have already been compressed at least once. 

id rather have my final product be slightly quieter, than have it become thin, muddy and inconsistent.  

this is also why so many file formats, mp3s in particular, are so lossy.