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Not really the most important thing is to get your room treated and learn whatever monitors you have and how they effect your mixing .For example, if your room has a null at 120hz no matter what speakers you have you will never hear that frequency accurately and so not mix it properly. If your...

Just curious, Why the fascination with NS-10s Back in the day a huge swathe of studios had them and so if you learned how NS-10s sounded you could work in a lot of places without having to spend hours getting used to the monitoring from scratch every time. They were not and are not particularly...

That would be a pretty common way to do it Something like Guitar Rig is a good option if you cannot record an amp because you don't have a good one, or you can't because of noise concerns and so on If you have an amp, have the pedals, know how to get the tone you want and can record it...

I've yet to find a song that wasn't an acapella that had frequencies that are only vocals. that's a problem we run into when mixing, you have to find how to bring the elements together so the frequencies that cross over don't mask what is most important (usually the vocal) but without killing...

The point about Barrys Gibb vs. White is that since one is a bass and the other singing in a falsetto, even if they were singing the same song they would sing it in different registers and thus different fundamental frequencies Aside from that every note has a different frequency and set of...

I don't have an iPad. Does it have S/PDIF or Firewire inputs (I didn't think they had much in the way on connectivity). If so can you force it to use an external sound card. If so I guess it would work in theory, If using S/PDIF, you'd need to set up the routing for standalone mode first on a...

Also be careful about splitting signals. If you don't have active pickups on your Les Paul depending on what you use to split the signal you may end up loading down the pickups. This won't hurt them but it will suck your tone and make your guitar sound, "thin" or "weak" or "weird" etc. Either...

Guitar pickups output are well below line level and you should not use a line level input to try and go direct in, they are also high impedance and need to go through the correct input. on the profire the front inputs are combo inputs that will accept mic or instrument inputs. You need to use...

Define normal :) the plugs I use "Normally" are waves, UAD, sonimus emulations. I have16 plugs in my DAW library and only one of them (Delay) is not an analog emulation, so I guess I am working in an almost completely opposite situation to what you are calling "normal". When I started out with...

Here's one http://www.waves.com/Manuals/Plugins/kmt-white-papers.pdf I also linked to several others a few pages ago

I use a DBox and like it. It's a great monitoring system and the summing is a plus I don't believe that sending 8 channels to a summing unit makes a large difference on it's own. I use summing to integrate other hardware into my mix without having to deal with latency, round tripping and...

What you want to do is theoretically possible although I had problems doing this with a cassette portastudio. I found the tape speed is rather inconsistent on the units I have. It's fine if your only using the tape because obviously that still syncs up with itself but using a perfectly...

Yeah that's true, But then again why should I pay 15 bucks or whatever for 3 good songs and 10 mediocre, navel examining, experimentation or flat out pieces of garbage. I can't begin to count the number disappointing albums I've thrown money away on over the years based on the couple of good...

Pretty good analogy I'd argue that people are prepared to pay, I'll cite again itunes did around 3.5 billion in sales in 1 year, spotify is increasing it's paid membership every day. Amazon cloud sells millions of songs every year. Physical CD sales still outstrip all digital media income at...

Well itunes did over $3.2 billion in sales in 2011 so someones making given that digital media globally still represents less than half of all music sales then someone's still making a lot of money Also the major labels have a 1/5th share in spotify currently valued at $4billion so they're just...

And yet so many of us shoot ourselves in the foot when we're starting out because we don't understand what it means or how it applies to our gear and software

I'm using RMS level as a measure of whether my equipment is getting 1.228 volts RMS where it will operate at it's most linear and optimally in terms of S/N ratio (or not as the case may be if I am looking for distortion). On my converters that could equate to -14dBFS RMS or -9dBFS RMS depending...

I'll license it to you for a small fee :) Listened on a laptop with earbuds and then listened again through my KRK monitors Bass was less missing on monitors so maybe it's that you don't have much in the basses upper harmonics that allow it to cut through on "Bass Challenged" playback systems

From the waves Kramer Master tape manual: From the waves SSL bundle: From the UAD System manual and so on

Anytime you are using a plugin that is an emulaton of real gear and the way it acts there is going to be a simulated 0VU point well below 0dBFS to allow you to push into the simulated headroom to get that distortion that comes from pushing levels into gear Many plugin manufacturers use -18dBFS...