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    Behind me? What the...? How do they do that?

    In the Steve Vai song "Bad Horsie" at 2:29 there is a noise that sounds like a child crying or something like that for a second. This sound seems to come from about 20 feet behind me. How does he do this? I have played it for friends and they always turn their head around as if someone else is...
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    Exactly how much to cut mid-lows?

    I've know that clear up the low mud in a mix you are to elliminate frequencies in the 200 or so range. My question is by 'elliminate' do you mean totally cut those freqs out of the kick, for example, or do you just apply a cut? I have the Waves eq and I was wondering if I should just drag those...
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    need keyboard mixing tips

    Anyone have any pointers for mixing keyboards with heavy guitars? I'm having problems getting some pads and piano sounds to set right in the mix. Thank you.
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    What to do when you're out of processing power?

    My mixes are usually 8-12 tracks. I'm at the point where I can't mix the song while having all of the plugins running. My machine (pentium 550) is optimized for audio and I'm defragging etc etc. My question is it common to mixdown a few tracks to one to conserve processor usage? I record my...
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    Double stereo tracks, panning and stereo image question

    Hi. I have been cloning a stereo guitar track and panning one hard left and the other hard right with delay etc. Now when I pan to the left I'm losing the right side signal of the stereo track, right? It seems that the left pan results in me hearing only the left side of my original stereo track...
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    Compress AND limit final mix?

    I own some Waves and Steinberg plugins (RCL, C1, L1, Freefilter etc.). I am making music for myself and friends only so I am trying to learn the mastering process by experience. I was told that on the final mix I should EQ, Compress and then Limit. I'm wondering if I should be using a...
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