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Perhaps, I think that's what streaming services are aiming for after the worst excesses of the 2000s. Anyway, thought it might be useful to point out since OP said they were comparing to audio from online streaming services.

The first graph might in this article be relevant when you're comparing your mixes to things you hear on soundcloud (or other online streaming services): Loudness online – how loud is loud enough, and how loud is too loud ? The rest of the post has a lot of fluff and not much content, but the...

They work pretty well - I have a couple that I rarely use any more. Make things artificially dry sounding which I found a bit counter-productive sometimes.

'risk of clipping' was the wrong phrase to use (as you've pointed out) - my point was more about gain staging, hadn't had my coffee at the time. I didn't say it did anything different, in fact I said it would work fine. I was suggesting an alternate solution that might be useful in future...

Adding gain to the master fader should be fine if you're mastering in your mixing project file. It's probably better practise to add gain before processing rather than on the fader, though, given that the fader is more often than not after master buss inserts (so you run a theoretical risk of...

Replace 'consumer' with 'audience' and I'd be inclined to agree with you to some extent. Making mixes for people to listen to and enjoy is the whole point for me, though. It could be telling that I don't write much/any of my own music anymore - my work is very rarely for myself. For me mixing...

It reall comes down to that - as ashcat_lt said, people with headphones, people listening on their computer, in the car, on a PA somewhere are all going to need something slightly different (or drastically). I guess I see mono as the lowest possible common denominator between them all. Having...

I think all of the major ones will do what you want - try some free trials and see which one you like the feel of. I use Cubase because that's what I first learnt on way back when, and I like it's audio editing interface and mixer interface better than the others I have tried. Reaper is a...

I didn't say that though ;) I'm definitely not an advocate of 'giving up' on panning, that's absurd. Perhaps I didn't make it clear what I meant there. Using the word 'compatability' was perhaps a mistake. What I was trying to get at is that a good mono mix will work when you pan it out, but a...

Looks like your regions or tracks are grouped - thats normally the reason for that symbol. At some point you might have hit Ctrl+G with some of the regions selected. Open the mixer, and check that the channels aren't linked there by right clicking on them - if they are linked it should say...

+1 If the perceived levels dip when I pan things out in stereo, I quite often find another place for that part or pan less severely. I find there is usually a way to make things work in both stereo and mono without making major changes to the mono mix. It seems odd to me to be having panning...

You can the do it in most DAW's by automating the channel trim/gain rather than the fader, it's only a click away.

I've been seeing a lot of older (60s & 70s) Sennheiser/Grundig mics based around the 408 and 409 capsules on ebay at the moment. I used the 408 on a couple of sessions a while back and liked the sound and there are quite a few older mics that have or claim to have the same capsule (whatever...

Cubase has a channel gain just above the fader in the channel edit window in Cubase 5 (it moved in cubase 6&7). It should have 0.0 in a text box as default, click and drag to change it. Or just send the vocals to a buss and add a little volume using the buss fader. If you are compressing the...

Particularly for vocals, this is great. If the singer's mic technique isn't great it can save the take. Sort any particularly loud or quiet parts with automation, send to a buss, use the buss fader as overall volume and do any processing there (compression, eq etc).

I had a bit of a look over the spec sheets, and did a bit of reading. The general differences are that the Compact model is aimed at film/video/broadcast post production studios, rather than music recording studios. From what I've read the two models are voiced differently, and the cabinet...

Haven't listened yet but it sounds like a cool experiment. Mixing might be tricky but you could always lose the tom or kick mics where they're not relevant. If the mics are all in the same position for every take you shouldn't get any phase problems with the layers on the raw tracks and it...

That's what the Dissolve Part function I mentioned earlier does - I don't see any mention of it being a restricted feature in Elements so I would assume it's available.

I guess the kicker is that if the vocal isn't sitting right with the just the basics (eq, compression, reverb), it's probably not going to sit well full stop. Once it's there, a double track or chorus could add some width or size, if that's the sound you like.

My experience with two lead vocals is mostly acoustic/folk/country/soft-rock stuff so it might not be the same for different (heavier/more agressive) styles, but I find I like having the two vocals very definitely placed opposite each other in the stereo field (which chorus might mess with...