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There is very little you can do to soundproof that type of situation other then making sure the doors and windows have a good seal.

I agree with Pipe to an extent. There is definately a noticeable difference between cheap and really cheap. A small mackie mixer will sound obviously better then a cheapo behringer or sampson. As a good rule of thumb (with a few obvious exceptions) if it costs less then $300 it's probably...

If you want to have separate submixes of the tracks already recorded then you need to run more outs from your computer into the mixer and assign whatever you want to those outputs in Cubase. Then setup your Aux channels to feed the headphone amp inputs and whatever you want on that headphone...

Make sure you don''t have any normalization happening when the file is rendered.

Why are you so worried about stereo? Everybody records in surround nowadays.

If you're lucky your DAW or monitoring system has a mono button. Otherwise do like Glenn suggested and pan everything straight up.

This post makes me feel warm and fuzzy. Well, mostly fuzzy.

Yeah, get rid of the carpet. The windows are of no consequence. Just turn off the snare spring and you should be fine.

I don't have time to listen to the tracks right now but sometimes doubling the tracks with a cleaner sound can really help give the guitars more definition.

When a surround decoder needs to fake surround from a stereo track it takes what is common to both speakers and puts it in the center, keeps the wide stuff to the sides and then delays the wide stuff and sticks it in the rear channel. It is pretty much the same as M/S or Mid-Side decoding...

I wouldn't go through all that trouble just to run them through a Behringer. Use plugin compressors on the individual tracks and master buss when mixing in PT.

I would put the mixing desk along the wall with the window and place ridgid fiberglass panels all along both ceiling walls and up in the peak.

Running all the tracks through a cheap tube pre sounds like a bad idea. Also if you want a punchy, tight sound that usually requires a bit of limiting on the individual drum mics and will require having everything on separate tracks.

Are you confusing mixing with mastering? Mastering is where they process your final 2 track mixdowns.

Use a Y splitter or A/B box.

The basic trick is to just record the background vocals over and over for one big chorus sound.

If you know what you are doing it's perfectly fine to mangle or squash the signal on the way in if you know that is what you want. Most cheap compressors can only do about 8db of compression before sounding shitty so watch the meters. Put the ratio low for easy compression or higher around...

Just fill the room with 705 then carve out a tunnel to work in.

Then try a different limiter. The Event Horizon plugin is pretty good for an edgy type of sound. http://www.stillwellaudio.com/?page_id=16

It's definately helpful to understand the basics of sound and electronics. You don't have to memorize the formulas but understanding how everything works together can go a long way.