rob aylestone
Moderator
I'm trying to follow the topic, but he is being fed so much advice that can only be taken on board by doing it. He's looking at a Cubase screen that isn't that helpful - one minute he's fed advice from one person that is perfectly valid, but relates to their preferred system, then somebody else advises an alternative as their standard - and he's not made much progress from post one. My point being that the software is much better than a real mixer at managing channels too low v master too high OR channels too high and master too low. Getting it wrong produces distortion or noise - and you need to get a handle on that, rather than following some elusive number on a display. The two most important controls on a mixer are the output levels to track/recorder and the output level to your monitors.
I'd suggest that mastering is a long way away yet - as in presenting a finished mix to the mastering process. Surely, maximising the capabilities of a complete system need to be sorted first.
Bouldersound - instead of taking yet another pointless pop at me for at least trying, I suggest you go back yourself and see how many different methods he's been advised to do - he understandably picks up on some, but is still confused, and I think basics are being missed and he's being advised to jump straight to the hard stuff.
Knowing your equipment, and it's limits are really important - NOT blindly following advice that has to assume so much. Seeing a meter sitting at a certain level is NOT a Holy Grail, if it sounds worse than it could.
Recoding is not like guitar tab - where you do exactly what the books says and it will sound great (or not).
I'd suggest that mastering is a long way away yet - as in presenting a finished mix to the mastering process. Surely, maximising the capabilities of a complete system need to be sorted first.
Bouldersound - instead of taking yet another pointless pop at me for at least trying, I suggest you go back yourself and see how many different methods he's been advised to do - he understandably picks up on some, but is still confused, and I think basics are being missed and he's being advised to jump straight to the hard stuff.
Knowing your equipment, and it's limits are really important - NOT blindly following advice that has to assume so much. Seeing a meter sitting at a certain level is NOT a Holy Grail, if it sounds worse than it could.
Recoding is not like guitar tab - where you do exactly what the books says and it will sound great (or not).