Recent content by nirospring

Ideally speaking, I totally agree with you. But in my case I do have some mixing experience, and I can't afford the ideal. I'm looking primarily for a balance in the overall sound and mastering. It's in trying to make the track loud that I feel I do the most damage. I don't have a lot of...

All your comments make sense. I did find someone to mix a track for me, and I did leave all the parts on separate tracks. It was a very simple song though, so for other tracks I wanted to make it easier. I want to pay a somewhat decent rate per hour, and I can't afford to pay for an 8 hour...

I really hate the idea of someone else having to go though each track to try to figure out what the hell I was doing. It makes sense that it would be ideal to eq each guitar slightly different etc. etc. But can't you still do a lot with stereo eq plugins? And wouldn't it cut down the time and...

Ha ha. I wish I wrote better lyrics. I get the melodies in my head and whatever happens to be going on at that second ends up being the words.

Once I get tired of the song. It's done. If it were a professional endeavor, then I agree with you. I just want the mixes to have as much presence and clarity as is possible with low-level gear.

That's kind of what I was trying to do with this post. Should I post in a different section?

I understand that you get what you pay for, but I would like to find audio mixing for less than $200 per track. Actually, I was hoping $40 per track, and this doesn't seem to exist. My songs are fairly uncomplicated rock and roll. I usually bounce my tracks down to less than 6 tracks. I'm...

I like it.

I agree with Rami. I was upset to find that they took away right-click. Why would they do that? Also, Reaper 4 has been muting my tracks often; which it never did before. Sometimes its because they're too loud, and other times I have no idea why. I've rendered mixes to find that 1 or more...

Sounds great!

I'm sure I'm in the minority on this thread, but I think that mastering is a thing of the past. It is a great luxury if you can afford it because it gives you that last set of ears and one final chance to fix any problems. However, a great part of the mastering engineer's job has always been...

Mike is right that to a certain extent "garbage in, garbage out". But I think that nowadays a lot can be done in the mixing and mastering stages that couldn't be done a few years ago. I have Izotope software which can do amazing stuff that was never possible before. It can really clean up...