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It's been a long time since I've posted on here, but I actually started checking out the "Mix This!" on this site again because I missed mixing music. I mix and dialogue edit short and feature films full time now! I'd love to take a look at this as well if you don't mind?

I personally never use a multi-band compressor on my master buss, because if I'm personally mixing the track, if there are places where I could see using a multi-band compressor, I'll use it on the track that needs it, not the master buss. When mixing, I rarely use one, but it usually ends up...

It wasn't done with guitars, but a few years ago, we had a bass DI that we reamped through a guitar amp to get it sounding a lot more gritty. The band only had one guitarist and didn't double track, so I did the same kind of trick you did, but with the bass. Filtered out all of the highs of the...

Apparently I'm really good at reading. My bad!

Not directly related to what we're talking about in this thread, but I wanted to note that duplicating a track and panning them out does nothing to make it sound wider. It's just making it louder. I'd recommend actually double tracking your vocals and doing this if you're wanting a wider vocal...

I never understood this phrase. No great guitarist is ever going to make the tone of a Peavey Vyper sound like an AC30, or an Acoustic brand amp sound like a Mesa Dual Rectifier just by how they play the guitar. It's ridiculous to think so.

It'd be easier to help if you posted a clip of how the noise sounds.

I was going to suggest this. People do it in film all the time. It's called ADR, or Automated Dialog Replacement. Just record yourself talking with a lapel mic or whatever the heck you have laying around to do the video, then re-record the audio while watching the video to sync it up, and...

My first thought was that if you're monitoring directly, while also playing along to stuff like hard rock and metal, you aren't getting nearly the attack/beater level that are in those. The kicks in those are usually compressed to hell and then have at least a bit of a boost in the top end...

Yeah, to connect firewire to later MBPs (I have one myself), I just had to buy a Thunderbolt to Firewire 800 converter (FROM APPLE, apparently the other companies don't always work for audio interfaces), then use an 800 to 400 for some interfaces. My current one is 800 to 800, but it worked with...

If you're running your audio through a mixer (probably not likely if you don't have a DAW, but worth a shot at asking) you can EQ it at the board. I run a PreSonus Studio Live 16.4.2 AI at my house. There's been lots of times I'll be listening to a video and the voice is just too boomy or...

Watching this whole video, I thought this seemed like a useless idea when reference mixing seems like the better idea. 6:30 he mentions to use professional reference mixes in conjunction with this. I feel like that just makes this kind of a novel idea as a fun way to say, "wow, this is what I...

My first guess would be you're somehow working with a compressor that has an "input" gain stage (which as you drive it harder is going to make it compress more), and probably an output/make-up gain stage, which is what you should be using to boost the output from the compressor. Of course, I...

I'm in agreement with everyone else. Those 414s are a pretty nice mic for recording what you're wanting. For the record, Decca Tree recordings are also popular with orchestral stuff if you're recording in a nice space (eg; a nice hall). I'd recommend doing some research on the Decca Tree...

Price range you're looking at? I've used the Saffire Pro series from Focusrite. Loved those. The 24 is $300 brand new in America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKS7EdK0dPY It's a long video, but Eric Tarr is BRILLIANT at explaining the specifics of what you're hearing in a way you can see. If you're having any issues with understanding what exactly happens with attack and release, I suggest taking 15 minutes and...

If that's your only issue, you should be able to just turn up the "monitor" volume on the interface and get sound. Just to be clear, do you have studio monitors hooked up to the interface? Or were you going to try to just use the laptop's speakers? Because I'm fairly certain you can't use the...

I can't recall the artist (I think it was Michael Jackson?) had an entire album where everything, including vocals, was recorded with a stereo micing technique. Like people have already said, the majority of the time it's going to be a single mic for a mono recording, but it couldn't hurt to...

The mic'd version just sounds like someone has a blanket over the sound. The DI one sounds crystal clear. I'm not sure why you're dead set on micing a digital piano, but I guess different strokes?

Yeah, those specs look pretty solid to me too. Only thing I might be concerned about mjb addressed. i5 is a solid processor, but if you're running a TON of VSTi's, then you might get your CPU loaded down a bit. If that happens though, you can always freeze/render your tracks to clear up some...