just record it

all those little clicks from hard panning and volume envelope are beautiful.

Recording channels seperatley is great if you want to do any automation on the individual channels that you can't do within LSDJ, but otherwise i just record the entire track and then do some editing after.

I don't soften my panning, I just add some slight mono reverb. I've always thought hard panning is part of the charm of LSDJ.

Izotope are currently doing a series of interesting mixing articles on their blog:
https://www.izotope.com/en/community/bl … e+6+Bump#2

Compression affects dynamics. Even in four bits, you have access to the entire dynamic range from silence to full blast, you just have less precision. Compression will work just as well on the output of a DMG if care was taken in composing with some dynamics in the instruments. If everything is always playing as loud as it can go all the time, even in 24 bits, a compressor has nothing to work on.

Yea good multiband comps and eqs can be quite helpful, and you wont quadruple the gameboy noise floor too!

In Logic, I just record a single track for LSDJ output, then apply:

1) EQ - a little boost around 50hz and 2500hz
2) Direction Mixer - set to 75% to soften the L R panning
3) Stereo Spread - to create more complex stereo field
4) Reverb aux send

Agreed, though I use a multi-band compressor to bring up the low end a little more when mastering. Of course, I haven't been at this very long so I would defer to the experts

There isnt much more you can compress a sound that has 4bit volume

Hmm. I had always thought the purpose of recording each channel separately was for clarity and to give more control when using compression.
I notice a huge difference when physically mixing audio between multiple gameboys vs. recording them separately.
Edit: ^ that could just be my mixer mudding it down though.

modern =/= good

The vast majority of mixing problems stem from poor arrangement, not lack of EQ. Keep your instruments spacious and you won't have problems.

yeah most of your balancing and general "mixing" stuff should already be done in the tracker, tbh. i never catch myself thinking "wow that wav instrument would sound great if i scooped the mids and gated it for 1ms right.... here!"

Not saying you can't make a good mix out of lsdj, just not as modern of a mix (aka complex stereo field, surgical parameter automation, submix processing, effects, track eq, etc.)

plenty of awesome recordings have been made over the years without any of that stuff, but avoiding them definitely gives a certain vintage quality, which isn't necessarily bad or displeasing and definitely more "gameboy".

I disagree, you can mix just fine on a good song on the stereo recording.

generally you'll want to multitrack if you're looking to get a modern sounding mix out of LSDJ