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I usually route all my drum tracks to a drum bus and then insert a compressor, squash it down until I like the thickness it's giving me and then use the mix % knob to dial in how much dry/wet signal I want. Before inserting the compressor the drum mix sounds balanced but when I bring up the...

I'm still lost too.

Good point, I never thought of it that way. As a rebuttal however I would say that even though I have always made it a point to not start recording at 00:00:00, all the tracks on the drum kit started at the same time obviously when I pressed the record button, So I could shift, wiggle, nudge...

Sorry, it's probably important to add that this is a different bass recording than the one I posted when I started the thread. That day he took 2 takes, and this is the other one... Either way, whatever take I end up going with, the issue of trying to get that note to pop out a little stronger...

Here is kind of where I'm at with it. Things aren't polished, obviously, otherwise I wouldn't be asking for help, lol, but it gives you a rough idea of what we're discussing. I can hear that note in the bass riff that's an octave higher, and I'm betting you can too, but he wants it to pop more...

I'm not sure how other DAWs work but in mine (studio one pro) even if you slice or split a track and delete one of the regions, you can still drag the remaining region out and the track info is still there. So if I dragged it all the way out as far as it will go to the beginning and the recorded...

So dumb, why didn't I think of that! I forgot that even though I trimmed the audio off before the song starts that it always remembers the full track if I stretch the file back out. Embarrassing.

After reading the suggestions from you guys, I am almost 100% certain that one of the cables must have been wired wrong. When I zoom in on the overhead tracks the transient attack waves travel inverse to one another. So now I should flip the polarity on the one that travels opposite the rest of...

Sorry for the absence, I'm going to post how it sounds with the rest of the mix tonight or tomorrow, I was stoked to see all the suggestions. Hopefully one of these methods will work to my satisfaction because the rest of the take is right on, and I don't like to abuse punching-in for this like...

"Try recording your bass clean with zero bass" ... I don't follow

Jimmys69- I dont want a wide stereo image, I was asking purely because I was curious about 'if the stereo image sounds very wide when hard panned, does that mean that it is more out of phase than when the phase is flipped on one and the sound becomes more centered?' Also- I'm pretty sure that...

I've just heard that flipping the phase on one side of a stereo track can cause the sound to become a wider stereo image, I'm just curious if there is a relationship between width and out of phaseness lol.

I have a drum track that has 2 overhead drum tracks and I hard pan them and then flip the polarity on one, with it flipped the sound seems to be more centered, and unflipped it sounds way out in stereo. Does this mean one is closer to being in phase and one is not? Or does the stereo image not...

I'm glad that theory makes sense to someone else as well. I wonder why it's such a widespread belief that it will help to even out dynamics when using a medium attack time...

Question about drum compression... Almost everywhere I look for tips on compressing drums to help tame some of the wild peaks it says to use a medium attack time. My question is this, if I have say a snare that I want to apply a compressor to make the strikes sound a bit more uniform (not at...

Are you suggesting switching to a different bass guitar to re-record the same part again? I'm sure you have a good reason for suggesting this, but I'm at a loss as to why that would help.

In one of the heavier rock songs I'm currently mixing there is a bridge that has a rolling bass part. I played the rough mixes for the band about a week ago and the bass player asked if the higher note in the bass pattern could be brought up in the mix. I agree with him, it doesn't cut through...

Thanks for the insights and opinions. The only reason I ask is because I am the guitar player for the album and for the few direct-in guitar tracks I have, a modeler is necessary, otherwise... well you know what a guitar sounds like unaffected. Not a guitar. For bass however I never thought it...

Well, let's hear it. I'm currently working on mixing my first real album. I've "mixed" personal projects before when I was in my teens, but it was rarely more than just moving around the faders. The reason I ask this question is because I often wonder if a bass part does not need overdrive...

I do pheel you. When we were setting to record I basically set up the mics and move them until I get a good sound, I don't know if that is a very smart way to go about it... I did learn a valuable lesson in the process however, when I set them up I remember hearing the crisp attacks and...