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Currently I'm using the Gadget labs soundcard and hardware for digital recording purposes. This hardware utilizes an Alesis mixer which I also use my MK1 Active reference monitors for mixing and mastering purposes. These speakers use common 1/4" plugs for speaker wires. I'm about to get a new...

point of a good mix I always thought the point of a good mix was to avoid lumps.

EQ Sooooo....what your saying...is that you used Winamp as an EQ plug-in in a round-about way....would this be any different than if you had a good EQ plug-in for your audio-editing software?

double distortion tracks One thing I've found in regards to having two 'nearly' identical guitar tracks that are then panned right and left...if your working with an acoustic guitar...this works great...because the slight differences give that 'reverb' feel... However, with heavily distorted...

drunken mixes I only mix when I'm drunk....and they always sound fine to me...although...I might also add that I'm always drunk.

bring out the kick! I too have often had this problem since a lot of the tunes I do are in drop D tuning and everything is low and heavy to begin with. One thing I often do is use a spectral analyzer plug in...then you can solo the bass drum track and visually see where the 'strength' is...or...

vegas meltdown Thanks... actually...the procedure you described is what I normally do. However...I figured out what it was...I was using the gapper/snipper vegas plug in for the first time on a short guitar track in the middle of the song. As soon as I took that plug in off...all was fine. I've...

I'm using Vegas 2.0h and have used it for years...suddenly, if I render a few tracks down to one .wav file my hardrive space (approximately 4GB) suddenly starts to disappear. It disappears at about 0.2GB every two seconds or so...the file is only about 4 minutes long (only audio) and should only...

Here is the problem: most of the songs I record are in Drop D tuning...so its pretty low and heavy to begin with...what I'm curious about is if anyone has any experience with getting a strong low end by using a multi-band limiter in the mastering stage. Granted...there could be issues at the...

final levels One thing I do to get all my songs at a decent relative level is the following: First...I use Vegas Audio as a multi-tracker....so...what I do is make a file that has all my final mixes in it...so its just a vegas file that has a bunch of individual songs in it....then I will add a...

thanks Bill Thanks for the comments Bill...and sorry to rattle the head-bangin' cage! haahaa... Not really sure what the genre is...I'm not a great guitar player by any stretch...and that usually defines the 'sound'...I guess its sorta rock or new metalish...but with her voice...it stays pretty...

Vegas I've used Vegas for a couple of years now and its outstanding for multi-track recording. It will depend on what kind of sound card you have as to how many simultaneous tracks you can record at once. I have a gadget labs sound card that allows me to record 8 simultaneous tracks and my...

very different Sound Forge is used more for mastering a final mix. I believe you can only work with one track in sound forge....with cool edit or other multi-track recording programs you can have an unlimited number of tracks. You wouldn't be able to use sound forge to record a band...and then...

Allright folks...I think I've done all I can with my sorry ass abilities on this song...thanks for your comments and help...and if there are any other glaring problems...still...definately let me know and I'll get back to work... I'll definately be looking for the elusive Mr. ChrisHarris for...

peaches and scream ok Chris...you put me up to the challenge and I don't think I'll be able to talk normally for a week!! I hammered some aggresive effects on her tracks, and then I also gave it a try. When I did it, I sang (sang...yeah right) yelled through a vaccum cleaner tube through my...

screams and solos! Hey Chris...I'll work on the screams...maybe I'll give it a whirl...didn't really think of that... W.I.S.C. Thanks for the comments...but regarding the solo stuff...well...I'm not really a guitar player...or anything for that matter...and hence the simplicity of my songs...

no waaaaaaaay I gotta disagree...I think people CAN help a mix based on mp3 files. Especially when the first mix is usually as bad as mine!!! My mixing abilities (although not stellar) have gotten 100 times better because of all the helpful comments here. If you make a high quality mp3...you...

the kinks? Maybe its merely the accent...but the vocals really reminded me of the kinks! You got a really nice clean sound here AB...this was a true pleasure to listen to...another song I'm going to listen to again...not to find mixing faults...but to really be entertained by it...great song!!

wow Awesome job...sounds fantastic...it all sounded suberb on my speakers...someone needs to hurry up and make another Young Guns sequel so this can be the theme song!!!!!! Really great tune.

my savior Had to give it a listen tubedude since you were my savior with my own tube amp!! Mix sounds really cool...I think they are definately on to something...who would of though Macy Gray...and Billy Corgan would sound so cool singing over an uptempo Nirvana song!!! lol....all those people...