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Get rid of all the copied tracks and EQ and learn how to use the limiter. It will be your best friend.

If you consider that hostility then you should stick to the kitty forum. :p

Usually a good player with a good tone and a good signal path is all it takes. Sometimes a bit of low cut and limiting may be standard practice for rock but it shouldn't take any drastic measures. What usually throws off most new engineers is learning what actually sounds good or works well...

Sure but it was recorded at the end of a hallway, smashed with a limiter and ran through an echoplex. It's by no means a "good" drum sound but it is cool as hell. Most of the LZ drum tracks used at least 3 or 4 mics.

It's not bad but at that rate they should have some pretty good gear and credits. Budget mastering starts at about $40 per song. Midrange, indie oriented, guys charge about $800 per 10-12 song album and you can get some pretty serious names for about $1500 an album.

In practice I've found the "musician mix yourself" thing to only work about 25% of the time. Even when a musician has only 2 knobs to worry about, them and everyone else, it seems to be too complicated for them to understand. :(

Garbage in = Garbage out. If it can't sound good then try to make it sound interesting. Slam it into a limiter and maybe add some crazy fx.

I don't understand why all these idiots still feel compelled to squash everything. We had our band's last album mastered by an old school guy who kept it at a reasonable level and it sounds great and holds up just fine in a rotation with a bunch of smashed stuff...

Compresion and volume automation are the tools used to lessen dynamics. You just need to learn how to use them better.

It will work but you will be sending a powered (albeit low powered) signal in the same cable run with your audio and that is something you usually want to avoid because it can cause interference. The best method is to use the sends for line level signals from the aux sends and then have the...

Wood absorbs and diffuses the high end a little bit. It also allows bass to get through it. Marble will reflect everything. If you just want it for style maybe use it as a border with some wood squares or rectangles in the middle of the room.

There really aren't any regimented areas that an instrument will take up. They will blend around each other with different frequencies being important for that part. For instance kick and bass. You generally want the bass to fill in the very bottom (under 100hz) but you also need some mids...

Thanks for the suggestion.

I went through this last year trying to insure our rehearsal space and gigging gear. I was eventually told to get an Inland Marine type of policy. Apparently they are used for insuring tools and equipment on the road and maybe have something to with boats and/or the military. :confused::D...

I hate that aspect of using laptops. I can't believe nobody has come up with a solution for that yet. In my old home office I was able to use my laptop and AC adapter with no buzz at all. I'm guessing the room wasn't grounded so it wasn't an issue.

I've been pretty happy with ProCo stuff in the past. It's not the type of DI you would use to get a certain type of sound but it will do the job and stay out of the way.

DI's convert from unbalanced instrument or line level to balanced mic level (not line level). You still need a mic preamp after the DI. The purpose of a DI is to convert the signal to balanced mic level so that firstly, you can use a mic preamp to up the level and secondly, so you can run the...

I mixed our last album in the corner of a small untreated room using Klipsch ProMedia computer speakers. :eek: I had to do a lot of mix checks on other systems and it ended up taking about 6 months.

The problem with just lowering the master fader is that this lowers the output level and you could still be clipping the input of the master buss. Some DAW's and plugins allow you to monitor the input level.

I agree with you Steve. I love albums where there are little textures that you may not notice until years later listening on headphones or in the car. "Did I just hear a banjo?" We did a lot of texturing in our latest album and the mixes were a bitch. It took me 6 months to mix it and by the...