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Love it :D Finally mixing in children's fairy tale-type language that I can understand!

Ok, I think the setup of the plugin confused me considerably, as the Compressor section had Make-Up Gain (with an auto feature), but the Limiter section had nothing, and I was just viewing the plugin as being equivalent to 3 separate plugins (Gate, Compressor, Limiter) as it's laid out that way...

Thanks for your responses everyone :) The limiter packaged with Cubase does not have automatic make-up gain, so I would have had to move a fader at some point. This is exactly what I did. I stuck the Limiter as an insert on the Master Bus, and initially I actually tried adjusting the Master...

I like what you're telling me... rationalisation to spend $800 on monitors instead of my student debt, my car or food :) Also, for once, I can semi-legitimately blame my current equipment rather than my woeful lack of skill.

Hi again :) Please take this thread lightly, because I'm not suggesting this is how I believe it should be done - I'm doing it mostly as an academic exercise, to learn from. In my understanding, one of the objectives of the mastering stage of music production is raising the volume. I've read...

Capriccio - thank you so much for the feedback!! Really appreciate it! It's nice to be told I'm (sort of) on the right track :) Just to clarify, you think the distortion on the first track is just a few ventures over the 0 dBFS line at the mp3 stage, because I barely left any headroom...

:( No one? Sorry, I don't want to be pushy or impatient. I'll have to return to studying in 3 days though and won't have time for music for another semester :(

Forgot to mention that I raised the peak level up to 0 dBFS for the mp3s I linked above: I did leave some headroom when I recorded (I think the tracks peaked at roughly -10 dBFS before I adjusted).

Thanks for the offer Capriccio! (and anyone else who feels like doing me a favour). I made a SoundCloud account to share them on: Sifunkle's sounds on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free They're the only 2 tracks on there, representing 2 different guitar sounds I wanted...

Thanks again for the advice, everyone. I spent most the day yesterday trying to get the tone and mic placement right and record some stuff. I did as miroslav suggested and recorded several samples of different setups to compare them and ended up basing my recordings on what I discovered there...

Yeah, I've never been that clear on the difference really. I mean in the context of a guitar amp I get that the volume controls the loudness while the gain controls the level of distortion, but it seems that elsewhere the terms get used fairly interchangeably, which confuses me. From the theory...

Thanks for the responses everyone, really appreciate it! I'm prepared to spend a good couple of hours getting the tone and mic placement right before I actually start now, and I'll definitely go into it with your tips in mind :) particularly keeping the gain low. I would probably have kept it...

Hey all, I know this topic has probably been done to death, so sorry for polluting the board (but I have read some material on the topic, so hopefully you're not too annoyed). I've only recorded guitar DI, but I've borrowed my friend's amp for tomorrow and am gonna have a crack at recording my...

Thanks for your response bouldersoundguy! Wow! I had 'phase cancellation' going through my head, although I obviously didn't fully make the connection as you've outlined. Kinda happy it even occurred to me though (although I still resorted to blaming my tools like the poor workman I am ;))...

Just come across something that strikes me as odd, but it might just be I'm overlooking something. I'm EQing some tracks in Cubase LE (with its 4-band parametric EQ) and have observed this a few times. Taking the example of the kick drum I'm currently doing: If I put only cuts into the EQ...

That's exactly what I meant. Being the amateur I am I probably used the wrong terminology and confused things. I'm more of a concepts than a details guy :) Oh, I got what you meant, sorry to have misled! My later post was more of a ramble on some new things that were drawn to my attention...

Oh yeah, there's a lot of regurgitation there, and it sure won't match up against anything a seasoned veteran could write. But that's why I called it the "Newb's Music Production Recipe for Newbies" :) And as I said in the OP, half the reason I posted it was for others to critique so I'd know...

Mastering - Set the mixer to only have one channel containing the final mix (as well as the master out) - Only work with (add effects to) the master out o The order of effects in the chain should be suited to the song, but the limiter should always come last - Loudness: o The very last insert...

Mixing – final stages - Consider making submixes (combining tracks into busses) for group effects and ease of level setting o Eg. to apply the same reverb to all vocal tracks - If levels are problematic, consider using limiters on some (/all) tracks - Automate levels of each track/submix as...

Mixing – refining the mix - Lower all tracks by the same increment until the master out peaks at 0 dB - Establish stereo image: o Left-to-Right using pans § To emphasise this aspect on a stereo mix, reverse the phase of one channel · Don’t then sum to mono, or phase cancellation occurs §...