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I had some free time on my hands and I tried looking up the MXL condensers you're using. Seems they have been discontinued. I was trying to look up the specs and I got nothing. But my guess is, the SPL handling on those mics probably isn't the best for this kind of situation. So short of...

You have 4 mics to work with: SM57 on the snare, thats fine. However, it's the other mic's I question. Overheads are probably the most important of all the mics for drum mikin. In fact, with a kick ass pair of overheads, you wouldn't need any other mics. Typically the setup could be as...

Yeah, lets get that out of your head from the start: it's not a race to see who gets closer to 0db. The worst recordings I've heard where a result of pushing it too close, which makes it really hard to listen to. I'll be sure to add my two cents later when I get a chance to be around a set of...

There lays a big problem with Vocal tracks, they are probably the hardest to mix of all. You have to consider how you would EQ vocals, what effects to apply to it, how those effects enhance or take away from it, how much effect, etc. Does it drown in reverb? Does it sound too dry? Then you...

A teadious way of doing it: finding some type of click remover software and going one by one on the clicks and applying the effect on it. But man, in my honest opinion, I'd rather just re record it...saves your work and saves you from pulling your hair out.

It's not uncommon for a producer to finalize a TV commerical by listening to the final mix through a TV set.

Try this, I think you'll find it interesting: Take whatever set of speakers you're using, and place them on different surfaces. Play something through them, then place your ear on the surface they are on. You should hear a good amount of "Warbling" effect comming from the surface. In other...

Good answers in here, but here's mine: The purpose of compression mainly came from the desire to control dynamic range. You only have so much dynamic range to work with in a song, so you tend to use the compressor to give each track it's own slot on the overall dynamic range of the song...

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That's just it man, it's that final EQing that's screwing you up. Snare's live in the midrange of the spectrum, so if you're doing the very inadvisable "V thing" on your EQ, then expect your snare to sound like pure ass. The best thing you could do is to get the mix sounding the best it...

Inserts are prefader, so you'd probably see them high up on your patch bay should you ever see one. You don't control wet/dry with inserts on the board, so that tells you that you'd probably want to keep inserts for dynamic processing. Not a rule, but kind of a no brainer. Sends are almost...

maybe just leaving it alone would do better than any changes. Careful use of reverb could help you get it to sound in the pocket.

85db to 90db and you should be fine

Sublime's 40oz to freedom is probably one of the more inconsistently mixed albums I've ever heard. 311's grassroots CD was probably one of thier best CDs to date, yet mixed very inconsistently. It truly didn't get better until Ron Saint German started producing them. Just shows how an...

Interesting topic-Very good insight. You know it's funny because mixing "inside the box" vs analog mixing has become somewhat of a double edge sword. To a certain extent, I could say that analog boards wipe the floor with DAWs, but if you get to see the really high end systems, then you slowly...

In other words.... Just EQ it to what sounds right to your ears. If you hear clipping (not see), then you've gone too far. Sounds like you might be eye balling that master fader more than you need to.

All the ideas are good in concept, yet there's a reason why studios are studios and home recording is home recording. You could get away with a home tracked session, but you'd have a song at half potential. I always advise this to clients that I work with. If it's a decently equipped studio...

The mic should be fine assuming you don't do anything optional to it. "Is it ok to use an AKG 414 on a guitar amp?" Man, if there's anything you eventually learn it's that you can use whatever mic your heart desires. All mic's have different sound characterics; therefore, you should never...

This is something you usually find in the manual. It's something called, "Unity" or "Unity Zero". This is the best specified level for the mixer you are working with. Most of the time it's something like setting your faders to zero. That way you don't pick up excessive noise and/or over drive...

I've heard the mix and the only thing that comes to mind is a visual image. "You have a bar, people are drinking, and some band is playing on stage" In other words, it sounds like someone just dropped a mic in front of the band, hit record and left to get a quick bite to eat. Interesting...