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when recording, is it good too keep the levels at 0dbvu or should it be higher than that?

does anyone know of any good sound cards that don't produce self-noise? i have a soundblaster audigy. There's noise in the signal even when the mic isnt plugged in yet.

have anyone ever mixed or mastered something without boosting any EQ what so ever? if so how would you get it to sound crisp without having to boost eq and get phase shift?

is it better or worst to have the +20 db mic boost setting on on my pc volume control mic setting? the soundcard itself adds noise even the mic isnt in. i have a sound blaster audigy and a yamaha mg/10 mixer which i use as my mic preamp also.

What company do yall think supplies the best plugins? (e.g. waves, sonar, pro tools, samplitude......and so on)

i have a yamaha mg/10 mixer and a 24 bit sound blaster audigy sound card. i plug my mic into the preamp on the mixer and then i connect my mixer to the sound card and record like that. i noticed that when people plug their mic into an interface preamp, the vocals sounds way better than the way...

i don't have a good vocal booth to record so i just record in the closet. i heard that if you don't want the room to effect the vocals that much than you should turn the gain down real low. i turned down the gain pretty low but now my vocs are low and when i raise the output level it's just more...

I normally cut everything under 100 Hz in vocals when i'm mixing. i read that it's good to do that so it wouldn't get in the way of any low end sounds (bass, drums, ect.) does anyone else use this strategy also or do u deal with that frequency in a different approach. thanks for any helpful...

does anybody use waves linear phase eq when mixing and not just for mastering?

what is a good way to find a good threshold setting for vocals when using a compressor when mixing. what threshold and ratio settings do yall normally use

where can i get PVC pipes and how much do they cost. i'm trying to build a vocal booth. how much PVC pipes do i need to get a good size vocal booth. what's the average amount of money spent to build a vocal booth using pvc pipes and soundproof blankets and do they work as good as real booths or...

I heard about the Eq ying yang effect and i was wondering what are the EQ opposites. (E.g) if i cut at 200hz by 2db what is the opposite of that that i can boost 2db to make it sound more natural. Is there a chart that can explain the opposite Eqs or a formula to find the Opposites?

Is there a way to calculate which frequency the Set Q number will raise or boost. (e.g. say if i set the Q to 1 and started to boost at a certain frequency, is there a formula to use to know which frequencies will raise?)

i record in my closet and it doesnt have that good of a sound but it's the best place to record where i live. the vocals are a little boxy. how can i get the boxyness out of the vocals using EQ.

does hard pan mean pan 100% left and 100% right?

are adlibs normally thinner and thicker than lead vocals? and do they have more high or more low than lead vocals?

i'm reading the bob katz mastering pdf file on MS mode and it says "A simple audio decoder (just an audio mixer) combines these two channels to produce L (left) and R (right) outputs. Here’s the decoder formula: M plus S equals L. M minus S equals R. Here’s how to decode in the mixer: Feed M to...

i have a sound blaster audigy 2 and on the box it says during recording i can go up to 24 bit and 96hz quality but my recording program lets me record in 24 bit and 192,000 bit quality. is the quality going to be better if i record at the 24 bit and 192,000 or am i just waisting hard drive space...

does anyone have a yamaha mg10/2 that can help me out with it for recording vocals?

when mixing, how do keep something in it's own frequency range? like how do you know what frequency a paticular instrument or vocal occupies. i use the waves PAZ frequency chart. is an instruments frequency whatever frequency it takes the most space of?