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Crap crap crap. So during the whole process of recording and mixing I've stayed well within - 6 to - 18 db as far as peaks, I've made sure no plugins caused clipping and NOTHING ever got into the red... Everything has been in 24/44.1. When I rendered for cd, to listen in the car, one song...

What are the main differences between stem mastering and mixing?

Im learning what all this means but I had a quick question concerning my mix. OK, I have a mix I'm pretty happy with. I know I'm supposed to leave some headroom. I'm using reaper and on the leval meters, the main one is peak and I'm pretty sure the two on the outside of it is rms (they go up...

Is this basically the same thing as sidechaining the vocal to the Instrumental mix? Like could the same thing be accomplished if I took the mix, minus the vocal and sidechained it to where every time the transients from the vocal comes in, the rest ducks down a little?

I was listening to some modern music and flipped it to something recorded in the sixties and imeadietly noticed how limited the overall frequency was. No low bass, no sparkle in the high end. But within A FEW SECONDS my ears started to adjust and everything sounded normal.... Man... Crazy how...

I hear people saying 85db is the proper leval to have when mixing but it seems extremely loud to me. I play a pink noise file and it's almost overwhelming, is it because I'm in a small room (like 15x15) or is it because my spl meter needs calibration? It's actually just an app..

I'm looking at a mxl v69m tube mic on ebay, usually sells for 250-300, they have it up for $98. So far I've been working with an SM58 which I don't think sounds all that great on my voice and a cheap Chinese bm 700 which actually sounds OK considering how cheap it was. I love the sound of...

I wanted to ad another set of monitors to my set up and be able to switch between them back and forth to check my mixes. My interface only has two outputs (a left and right trs) and a headphone out. Looking for a cheap way to do this, hopefully without loosing quality, which would be pointless...

First off let me say that the style of the music I'm doing is kind of dirty. Record static, saturation etc, I'm not super picky about a really clean, flawless sound. OK. Now, I've been recording and mixing in 24/44.1. When it comes time to print to cd quality, I'm confused by a couple...

Something to just capture ideas and stuff but good enough that I can save and mix the good stuff if needed. I have a zoom such and such with effects and on board drum machine but for me, it's super complicated to figure out. And the effects are harsh and unnatural. Looking for something simple...

It seems like alot of daws claim to be intuitive and easy to learn.... Tracktion looks interesting. I cut my teeth on Adobe audition, which I like but it's kinda buggy, at least the version I have. I've been using reaper, which does alot but... Well, it does alot, more than I need. I like...

A friend of mine is selling his firewire interface and I'm interested but my computer doesn't have a firewire connection. I thought about getting a firewire card to make it work, would that work or would it cause latency or driver issues? Is usb 2.0 faster anyway?

When I see pictures of studios with multiple sets of monitors, I wonder if they are there to hear how a mix will translate in different speakers or are they all playing at once to maybe get a more broad frequency spectrum? If I were to set up multiple monitors are there rules on how far away...

I've heard a lot of good things about Linux, some being its great on computer recorces, u don't need an Antivirus and it's free. I've been wanting to check it out for a while but it's kind of overwhelming, for one, it's a whole new environment heck, even a whole new language (what the heck...

I've been working on this for weeks and I FINALLY got it figured out so I thought I'd share in case anyone else had a problem like this : Been working on a song, tracks came from a friend who lives far away. He printed the bass line with reverb. SWAMPED In reverb, which sounds good on its own...