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Smooth Glaze is a TDM only plug-in developed by Doug Sax and Sonic Solutions. It's no longer sold and runs only on Digital Coprp's Alpha Server (and requires the long-discontinued SS-428x conversion system). It's used in all the top mastering studios, and Abbey Road has a modified version to...

So much music sounds the same these days because everyone uses the same drum samples, synth samples, guitar modelers, etc. I have a reasonably small space, but I bought a kit that would work well in what I have. I have a 60s Rogers kit with the 20" kick, some K's and an Acrolite I found for $5...

These days, any interface you buy is going to have perfectly usable preamps. Out of the lower budget interfaces (Focusrite, Arturia, U-Audio, SSL), I wonder if one will sound noticeably better or worse, and all should be fine. For a long time, I would mix and match preamps (UA, API, etc.)...

I think for me it was just some things, like the SDE-1000, sound good and aren't worth selling for low money.

Most of my rack gear is high end but I still use a pair of DBX 160A compressors. One I paid $100 for on eBay, and the other was $30 at a flea market, and it is gold, which I've never seen. I also have a Roland SDE-1000 and would like to have another. It cost about $100.

A friend of mine had the Yamaha back in the early 1990s. He used to use it with four-track and it worked great for the time.

The big issue with putting it last is that changing anything before it will (most likely) result in it needing to be tweaked. I would guess the Orban manual is for a broadcast unit, with would more than likely be set for a host.

Not if the material you submit to them falls within their guidelines. I do my best to make sure the mixes that I work on don't end up being changed by the service. YMMV.

Are you just trying to thicken something? You could try setting up a delay and setting one side untouched and the other with a short delay and perhaps some modulation. Garage Band is fairly limited as to what you can do.

I'll do it before a compressor or eq. In most cases, a compressor is limiting dynamic range, and many deessers rely on peaks to work correctly. Like anything else YMMV. I'll do de-ess, comp, eq but like I said, automation and RX are used more by me these days.

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It's nice to get a final set of ears on a project. A good mastering engineer may do nothing or very little if you do a great job on your mix. I took a mastering class in college (almost thirty years ago!), and Bob Ludwig came in a couple of times and said as much. The big problem today is that...

That would be cool to know. I have one of the guitars Spector made. They're kind of neat.

With RX and automation, I find myself using de-essers less and less. I wouldn't go back to hardware for anything. YMMV.

Over the weekend, I bought some software called PatchCAD after driving myself crazy with Excel for several years. It was $25 and it's so nice just to print out perfect labels. There are about 2000 templates that come with it. You can use Excel, but if you're looking for something faster and...

I have a pair of DBX 160A compressors. One I bought at a flea market last summer for $30. I picked another up on eBay for $100. I use them on kick and snare sometimes and they sound nice. The odd thing is the flea market one is gold. I've never seen one like that. They're under the LA-2A comps...

Record the guitar the way you want it, tempo map it, and build around that. You'll keep your quirky timing but be able to get everything playing in time to each other.

The bass, guitar and drums seem to be playing to something other than the drums. I would lose the lead guitar track personally and re-track the guitars/bass or get serious with elastic audio. Also lose the delay or pull it way back on the vocal.

Song sounds good for the style. In my opinion, the drums are way too loud, especially in the kick area. I would add some background vocals/doubles and do a quick remix before sending it to mastering but that's just me.

The most overrated Stones album imho. Give me Let it Bleed any day. Heck, I'll take Goat's Head Soup over Exile.