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:D Gotta love those self produced projects One side note about the Ghost Console, since i've noticed it's been mentioned: The ghost console is fairly difficult to use if you're not familar with some basic signal flow. So if you do decide to rent it, definitly read up on the features. Don't...

DBX compressors are a good investment if you don't mind shelling out some dough.

SM57 on top A good small diaphram condenser on the bottom (gets those highs really well). And if you decide you don't want it, just cut it from your mix :D

I think for me it just depends on the song. I real fan of unconvetional technique, meaning that if someone does it one way, I'll try it every other way. If someone sends me a song, or I handle the music from the begging, I'd have to listen to what the song does to me as a whole. After that...

Headroom: The upper yellow half of your level just before it clips.

I'm sorry, I read that and I had a good laugh. You hit a bowl and suddenly everything is so "clear". But on a serious note, it could never work...not properly anyway. It's good in theory, but too many flaws. Sticks break all the time, so it would be an expensive venture. Fitting a mic that...

Alright, here we go: A) Your mic selection will get a basic sound, but toss the idea of using SM58s as tom mics. I'd avoid omni-directional mics for drums altogether. B) about mic pre's: they are nessesary regardless. To get any mic signal up to line level, you need a pre amp. The...

Inserts are for things like outboard processors, so that's probably going to get you as far as a car with square wheels. You'd need to check if your mixer has individual channel outputs. It may be something like a quarter inch jack or an XLR out. If it does, and assuming you have a multitrack...

You could be having matching problems between pro audio gear and consumer gear. Consumer gear operates at -10db while pro audio operates at +4db.If you hook up consumer gear with pro gear, you get that drastic drop in db.

there's really no proper way of mixing drums. Just watch out for phase problems, since you have so many mics recording the same source. Also, two things to keep in mind when panning: 1) Drummers perspective tells you to pan out your drums as if you where sitting in front of the kit. 2)...

It's funny cause we pay a room tuner 1000 bucks plus hotel accomidations to do just that. Considering that setup, you probably are getting alot of low end, but in a really bad way. Monitor speakers are designed to live in an open space. So once you throw in extra factors (walls, consoles...

You could slap on the same presets on on your instruments. Yet I think each song heavily dictates that. I really takes good judgment to know when and if you could do that sorta thing. But I found that mixing each song individually, regardless of the previous songs, gives you a more diverse...

Are they magnetically shielded? Grounded? If not, having them close to any electronic equipement (Monitors) will cause problems.

I would just rely on the SM57 in this case. With a single SM57 aimed at the cone, you should get a pretty reliable sound. Unless you absolutly need the stereo effect. SM57's are pretty flat for almost any application. Plus you don't need to worry about phasing issues in that case.

It's done all the time, yet a click track plays a critical role in all that. Unless you're working with bands that have the time down to the T.

Additive vs subtractive really dosn't make much difference as long as any given engineer is aware of the effects of both. I personally rely solely on subtractive EQ and I'll tell you why. You have to understand that with EQing, there comes phasing issues. When you start taking away from, or...

Like MM said, over compressing a track will give you an idea of what radio does to a song. It's usually the mastering engineers job to handle that part and to decide if is needed. Sometimes, the mastering engineer will create a radio version of a single to avoid as much of the radio...

You know it's funny, cause alot of times reverb gives the illusion of super wide mixes. It's really about tricking the ear. But from what I've seen and worked with, there's alot of good stereo "expander" plug-ins out there that do what you're asking. Yet alot of times, they sound like pure ass...

Good post....about a million different answers. Reverb can do wonders for your song, yet it can completely sour it. "The Art of Reverb" is just that, an art. The best experimenting is the one you do yourself. Listen to your favorite mixes and see how much reverb is used and when. Try...

If I need to use them, yes... vote for gates.