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I need advice for treating my jam room. We play in my basement which is approx. 20' wide x 7' tall w drop ceiling tiles x 23' long. There is carpet down there and paneling. We hung heavy velour black curtains all around the band for looks and immediately noticed some deadening of echos. Next...

I typically don't have my monitors down there when recording because it is only a temporary setup and because I mix in another room. I guess, based on the responses, the norm is to record and mix in the same room. I just can't leave that gear and setup out as my roommate parties down there and...

Judging by the responses, I must need to explain further so here goes. My basement is my jam room / party room. We record using Cubase 6 w/ a Profire 2626. All tracking is done over the course of a few days then the recording gear is put away so I can entertain w/o worrying about the gear...

I DO record downstairs using my laptop and interface. We typically end up with between 18 - 22 tracks of drums, guitars, bass, and vocals per song. But I do not have an isolation room so setting the levels and sound must be done using headphones. After tracking, I take the files upstairs...

Does anyone track in one room and mixdown in a separate room? My modest home studio also serves as our practice / jam room. All of the drums and guitar gear is setup in my basement and my computer setup is in my bedroom (directly above the jam room). I was planning on using my laptop to track...

Is this a common practice? Putting a limiter on the master bus, I mean. Or is this more of a stop-gap measure to avoid clipping the final mix?

Thanks for the reply! I find there is plenty of bleed from the overheads so I just wanted to trim the kick and snare to kinda clean things up a bit. If I were to do nothing, just leave the tracks full, does this have a negative effect on the entire mix?

Trimming away the dead air from kick and snare drum tracks is a very tedious process as Im sure everyone hates. Would a gate be a better option, or is trimming just a necessary evil?

Very cool! How did you record the guitar?

Sounds good! How many mics / drum tracks?

OK - I see how your project flow goes - identical to mine w/o the stereo drum track. I've seen a guy start a completely new project using just the stereo drum mix then recording the other elements THEN final mixing that way! I assume he does this because his cpu can't handle all the processing.

Yea, I figured that would definately take a load off the cpu from having to stream 8 tracks of drums with many inserts and sends. But I'm a little confused, when you final mix, all of your recorded tracks (drums included) are operational (w/ inserts, eq's, etc...)- correct? So when/why render...

Has/do anyone regularly render to stereo a drum mix of 8+ tracks then bring that stereo mix back into their DAW to begin stacking guitars, bass, vocals, keys, etc?

So.... my input fader and signal level should be nowhere near 0 - I get that, how do you balance the input level at the interface and the input level fader in Cubase? Currently, I look for the clip light to come on the interface (Profire 2626) and then back off til very loud hits or signals do...

Thanks Guys!

Thanks for your help!

I am currently using Cubase 5 and recording a 5-pc hard rock band. Should all tracks be "normalized" prior to mixing?

Great advice Southside! This may explain why I am having trouble getting all of my tracks to mesh during mixing. I was operating under the old addage that you should "push" the signal during the recording process to the point of clipping - then back off a bit to not "redline". I've tried to...

Point well taken dintymoore! I've read soooo many posts and articles where evryone and their mom tries to tell you it should be done their way - when really, there are many approaches to mixing in general. Thanks for your input!

Thebigredhotdog is correct! I meant sending channels to an FX channel w/ EQ. Is there a cumulative effect in building up so many channels with eq, comp, fx sends, plugins etc...? I want a clean sounding mix with depth and didn't know if there was a negative outcome to so many processes...