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We just put the final acoustic bass on.

OK, we're having a lot of fun with this.. we're a bluegrass band (acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, banjo, mandolin & vocal) and for fun we're recording a Bon Jovi song "You Give Love a Bad Name." The guitar player added some electric guitar at the end of the song... I've never mixed electric...

I just got the dbx 160 compressor, and playing around with the m/s functions. Wow, it really adds a stereo component to the sound for the mix when you increase the side make-up gain. Really, you gotta watch the reverb going into the m/s function because it will accentuate the reverb by turning...

I have a desktop where I do all my work, and I have a PT license, a few Steinberg licenses, and tons of plugins from Waves. I like the thought of being mobile with my plugins from Waves, and I always store them on a separate thumb drive. Even though I like the idea of mobile licenses on a...

Thanks Rich! Yeah she's a killer singer.

I'm part of a bluegrass band and a few years ago we recorded a Bruce Robison song called Travelin' Soldier. We all helped record it at different places, and I mixed the tracks. This song came out especially good (for just having fun at it). Travelin' Soldier by Doug Knecht | Free Listening...

I'm running an ASUS desktop PC (Windows 10 Home), i7 3770 4 cores 8 threads, and it's always running something in the background. So I checked Task Manager and there is a Service Host: Windows Image Acquisition running 30% of the CPU power all of the time. Does anyone know what's going on with...

You know what - I found out that isn't what he was talking about.. it's just blending in an out of phase mix with the regular mix, and not changing any pan settings. Anyway, I know it's cancelling out the wave forms, but it's an interesting effect.

I picked up on a tip from someone, if you like to try something different for your mix, is to print a waveform of the mix on a new stereo audio track, invert the phase and invert the polarity of L/R of the new audio track, and play back and blend the original mix with the new audio mix until you...

Unfortunately I can’t hear the difference between the 2A and the 3A on vocals. What are the attack/release and ratio differences, and when would you choose one over the other? I guess the answer to the last question is whatever sounds best.

Let's say you usually work in 48 kHz. But you want to open a 96 kHz session. 1. Before launching Pro Tools, change the sample rate to 96 kHz on the user panel of the interface. 2. Launch Pro Tools. 3. Create a new temporary dummy session in 96kHz. 4. Close the dummy session. 5. Now you...

I know you can split a stereo track into two mono tracks but can you combine two mono tracks back to one stereo track? Other than recording a new stereo audio track?

We recorded 9 songs all together. Recording 1 song would have been hard enough with my lousy skills. But with 9 songs, it introduced an organizational need. I don't have a console, I create new sessions for each song, and if I have multiple songs that I want to sound the same, I have to save...

I have a form I send out as far as helping me prepare the mixer template, and I had an idea of what he was looking for sonically - he gave me a CD of his last project. Funny thing is now, the last mixes I worked on sound very very similar to his first CD, done by a pro. You can tell the pro...

Yeah, I'm the banjo hangout guy. I offered him the PT files but he didn't want them. I also told him I'd keep them on my hard drive forever so if he ever wanted to resurrect the project we could. I just hate to bombard him with anything more. I'll let him make the next move.

Last spring I recorded a dad and daughter acoustic/folk thing, with guitar and bass and vocals, plus me and a buddy added banjo and mandolin at the dad's request. We recorded at my home studio, using a KSM 32 for most everything into a Presonus hybrid mixer/interface. Anyway, this guy happens...

This plug in is so good. I love it even just for the high end EQ, sounds so sweet.

Is a maximizer a special kind of limiter?

I put this in the mastering question because the mastering houses would answer this better. When you're mixing and planning on giving the mixes to a separate mastering house, what effects can you put on the mix bus and what effects should you avoid? I always thought you try to get the sound as...

Thanks Rich, I'm sure learning a lot about stuff. It's a lot of fun.