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It hasn't happened yet, but my portable gobo's and bass traps will soon be moved to a home that has cats. The 3 largest upright gobo's are about 4 x 7 ft, stuffed with compressed rockwool, and covered with light-weight fleece. I few other bass panels are stuffed with compressed fiberglass and...

I am very picky about my compression. Sometimes I'll spend an hour or more just to get a single vocal or instrument track sounding perfect. Then the 2-bus takes even more tweaking until I am happy. (Yes, I know what I am doing. I've been using compressors for over 20 years and I think I've read...

I have been using a legal copy of Adobe Audition version 2.0 for several years. I know my way around the software quite well and I really enjoy it. I have just built a new i7 based studio computer with 64 bit Windows 7. I can easily install the AA version 2.0 that I have lying here, but it is...

I have an artist in my project studio that originally told me she wants to make youtube videos. So, I set my daw sample rate to 48000 Hz for syncing up her audio with future video. Now that we are some 5 or 6 songs into the project, she has informed me that she wants to make a CD too with what...

The guitar tracks just don't sound completely natural to me. Maybe too much in the vocal tracks causing phase or eq problems. Maybe it's just not a good sounding guitar. I don't know. Little Jesuses.mp3

An old Van Morrison song. Later Remade by Mellencamp and Me'Shell Ndegeocello. Again, just looking for your thoughts on the mix. Wild Night Mix 4.mp3 Thanks.

I have trouble understanding why many marching bands want their snare drums to sound like coffee cans.

I have a wooden shell snare drum made by Pearl. The snare beds on the bearing edge are fairly deep and wide. My technical question is...when tuning the snare head, should I try to force the head to have the same pitch at all of the lugs? (Making the head in tune with itself.) Or should I allow...

I mixed the same song twice using different methods. I wanted to know if I could hear any difference in the end results. I mixed them as WAV files, but converted them to mp3 for easy upload. I could upload the wavs if anyone needs to hear them. The first mp3 (below) was mixed entirely...

I am considering purchasing a Benchmark DAC1 for playback in my project studio. The 2 track digital output on my DAW is (RME soundcard) SPDIF using an RCA cable. Could I simply adapt that to the coaxial BNC connector on the DAC1? I "sort of" believe that I can connect that way, but I wanted to...

Opinions on the mix, if you would. I may turn down the harmonica. Let me know if it annoys you. Thanks. http://www.rawdepthstudio.com/songs/have_a_talk.mp3

Recently, my weekend cover band made a studio demo just to get gigs. The CD is full of cover songs that we do in our show. (We know we can't sell it and don't want to.) Anyway, when I post stuff in the MP3 clinic to get mix advice, people tend to nag more about a certain part or instrument not...

Same band, different day. (Ooh Baby Baby) Let me know if it needs work. http://www.theslickband.com/media/OohBaby2.mp3 Thanks.

I think this song needs another instrument or two, but it's a four piece band. It's the most we can do live. www.theslickband.com/media/HurtMix1.mp3

Say an instrument is panned to one side for most of the song playing rhythm. If it has a feature lead part over top of the other instruments, should it be moved to center during the solo or stay where it was? (I'm not talking volume, just about panning.)

Every band I have ever recorded has asked for rough mixes to take home overnight for a listen. Even during the tracking stage when nothing has really been mixed, they always want me to dump it to CD. The very next session they are full of comments about what the mix needs. One guy even told me...

Gees, I really need new monitors. It's a struggle to get my mixes to translate on these junk boxes. JennyMix3.mp3 Anyway, let me know where I stand. Thank you.

Local band, test mix. Let me know what you think. BigHunkMix2.mp3 Thanks, man.

This is my new band. We are working on a demo. Not a finished project, just the first test mix. Medley Mix1.mp3 Thanks for any helpful comments.

This is my new band. We are making a demo CD to get gigs. MidnightMix.mp3 This song is really short because it will become part of a medley of other songs. (That's me on drums, BTW. All acoustic.) Has not been mastered. Just a basic mix, squash, and burn. I am looking for comments on the...