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    Letter From My Darling

    I finally put out the money to upgrade my memory for Pro Tools - so I'm back to recording again. In order to put more effort into keeping the tracks more "unprocessed", I used the factory compression and EQ plugins only on the tracks. Letter From My Darlin&#39 - Banjo Hangout Jukebox
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    acoustic/bluegrass master for "Love of a Father"

    I've been working on making a master for a song called Love of a Father. I just got Sound Forge Pro 11, using some of the iZotope mastering suite vst's included. I really like this sound, although next time I need to eq a little muddiness out of 3-500Hz. Check this mp3 out and let me know...
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    submitting my experience with a project

    I just got done mixing/mastering a project and I’ve learned a lot, thanks to the help of the band involved. Somebody asked me to share some insight that’s become apparent to me, as a small town, small time engineer who hasn’t had a lot of experience in doing this for a band, but enough to make...
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    How do you choose when you have a plethora of microphones?

    I know most studios have a lot of microphones to choose from. How do you choose which mic to use for vocals and acoustic instruments when you are choosing between really good mics? A friend of mine owns a studio and has the following mics: - Peluso P12 tube mic - Pearlman TM1 tube mic -...
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    mixing bass

    Is there a way other than depending soley on your ears, to make sure bass guitar is same volume every song? I don't have a physical mixer, all done on pc and mouse. So I build from scratch a new mixer for every song. Most of my business is mixing, not recording. So there are different...
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    edited - wrong forum
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    do you sell or give away a dvd of session work?

    I've been doing some semi-professional mixing for bands locally for a few years, in my home studio. I run Pro Tools. At the end of one particular project I'm doing, the band wants to know if they can have a copy of the PT sessions on DVD (probably so they can go into a bigger studio someday...
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    random audio dropping from the mix

    I've been having problems with random audio dropping from the mix, even though the signal is still there in green showing it's not a missing file. I can usually save, close, and exit Pro Tools, and come back into the same session and it will reappear again. But sometimes it freezes while I'm...
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    Looking for feedback on my mix

    This is a song written by Gillian Welch called "By the Mark." I recorded using an Equation f.20 condenser, and mixed in Pro Tools 8. I used an ART MPA II Preamp. All the singing and instrumentation was done by me. I'd like some feedback on this one. It's probably the best quality recording...
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    DAE Playback Buffer (disc buffer)

    Right now I have a eSATA external hard drive which is running slow when I am bouncing the final mix to disc. So I'm going to eventually get a regular internal SATA disc installed next month. But for now, if it's running slow, can I increase the DAE Playback Buffer to Level 4 (3000ms) and will...
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    Roseville Fair (folk/bluegrass)

    I don't do a lot of recording, so when a buddy of mine sent me some tracks to mix, and all the acoustic instruments were recorded in stereo, I thought to myself I ought to be doing that too, as opposed to mono recording. I recorded my guitar, mandolin, banjo in stereo using a SM81 and Equation...
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    country/bluegrass song needs critique

    Some bluegrass friends of mine wants their CD tracks mixed and mastered on my home studio. I'll share about a minute of this song (it is copyrighted) in order to get some feedback on any part of the mix or master.. For the master I did run the mix through a tiny bit of soft opto compression, a...
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    phase scopes/stereo width

    I'm sort of a newbie at mixing, even more a newbie at mastering at home with Pro Tools. My question is "What is the optimum phase for full sound?" Right now I've got the AIRStereoWidth plugin set so the phase scope bounces from -1 to 1, averaging out at about 0. Is this what you want? I...
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    is it common to record vocals in stereo?

    I've got somebody's project and they recorded the vocal part in stereo. It sounds ok, but when he sang overdubs he got closer to one mic and farther from the other. It's my job to fix that, as the mixing person. Not only is there a panning difference but a tonal change. So I'm going to...
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    How much $$ to charge to mix a project

    A buddy of mine in the bluegrass industry asked me to mix and master their cd. Normally I do one or the other, but I guess he'd like me to do both. I'm pretty much not doing this for a living, but I've been at it for about 10 years, running Pro Tools. It's a bluegrass group, so we're talking...
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    quick critique of "Wayfaring Stranger" needed

    I'm sending this one to some radio stations for air play, and although I'm in the band I get to mix the project. We don't have time to master it professionally so I'm doing my best to make due. The wonderful Peg on lead vocal here. She's quite a talent and a great person to work with. Her...
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    importing session data archives

    When I get done with projects, I archive the PT Sessions on DVD by burning the folders using Roxio. I tried bringing up a song by importing session data from a dvd that had been archived, and it was missing 4 files, the regions didn't start on 00:00, and I was having trouble with the auto read...
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    Bluegrass mix on a song

    This is a bluegrass song I mixed. I play in this band - I'm the lucky one, I get to pick the banjo! yeah Anyway, I did my best with what I know. Thought I'd run it across you guys to see what you thought of it after doing some fixes recommended to me from this forum. Banjo Hangout Jukebox
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    memory usage increasing on pc

    I've always left my pc on during the night time for back up and updates. The memory usage usually varied between 50-65% while idle during the day. I've been doing this for a couple of years. Recently my memory reaches upwards to 80-90%. I have PC Tools, and it cleans and optimizes weekly...
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    putting a wav file into a region

    Let's say you have a region space defined on the edit window - it begins and ends somewhere in the middle of the song. You don't have the wav file but you want to import it from a firewire drive, for example, and fit it into that region space on the edit window. Sometimes this happens when you...
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