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I haven't used "normalize" since I was in school and was instructed to do so.

Monitors are more flat than others. The HS80's are pretty flat monitors, though they're a bit aggressive (but expose the problems in the mids). I had Ns10's, but I never liked them much. I also have event 20/20's which I still have, and traded my adams a8x's for a used TLM 49. I am a gear head...

Yes, listen at low volumes. Conversation level (to avoid ear fatigue and damage), but even at the volume in an untreated room the low-end is still f***ed up. Room treatment isn't just for the reverberation and flutter echo. It's for the low-end too. My room is +/- 4 except for a little node...

I wouldn't use a full out noise gate, but I would set it as an expander to push anything that's below the threshold down so it's not as loud. Be careful and listen for any loss of transients, try to not let that happen if possible. Even pro recording have room noise. Don't sweat it too much...

I think if any body is using it as a first reference, that can be a very bad thing. I also think that it CAN POSSIBLY be useful for hearing how your mix would sound on other systems.

Okay class... Get some 703 fiberglass for bass traps, moving blankets are used all the time. Don't go out and by blankets for "recording" they're just packing blankets to begin with. For mixing, I would recommend headphones if the room isn't treated, and if the monitors aren't that great...

Take your opinions to gearslutz where the real pros are :) (myself included)

I gave facts. Rokits aren't flat monitors, though having flat monitors is almost worthless without room treatment, unless you listen at extremely low levels. Have you gotten a chance to hear a real monitoring system? If you have, and you're still saying that the Rokits are flat, you're ears...

True representation? Those are infamous for being colored, low-end monitors. I'm not trying to knock anybody with them, but if somebody is serious about mixing, they should definitely save up.

It's a joke, and a waste of money. If you $300 rokits it's not going to make them sound like focals... Rokit's aren't really worth the money for nearfields. Spend your money wisely, on a mix engineer, or on room treatments (a lot of it) and at least $700 for monitors (yamaha hs80's)

If you mix with headphones, you're still in a crappy room! just kidding. But seriously, I would probably mix with headphones over a bad room. You have to take phase issues, response, and the response at different levels (because MUSIC is DYNAMIC). The room I mix in, and my monitors are the most...

I leave the fades up to the Mastering Engineer.

I'm going to give you guys a little insight to how I create a Balanced Mix. Starting Your Mix The first thing that I do when mixing is set the levels, and pan. I find this important to do before using e.q. compression, or anything else because this will let the frequencies build up and...

You can zoom in on the waveform really close on the pop so that you can actually see the waveform as just a line, then you can use the pencil tool to draw over the pops.

Just use volume level automation...

I use delays on just about everything, especially rap vocals, guitar, and piano. I prefer it over reverb most of the time.

If your overall mix loudness is too quiet, use a limiter.

I often track with either an 1176, or a 660 compressor on vocals. In the digital world, once something is clipped, you're out of luck. They're are a few plug-ins that help repair clipping, but it's always best to get proper gain-staging from the get go. Track around -18dB, -15dB, or -12dB...