mixing is really a daunting task to me

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alright. . .
yes, by turning down the volume levels for each track will weaken the song (obviously) because the volumes are lower. however, it will take away some of your clipping, and that is what u want to stop right? instead of cranking up your weak volume tracks so u can hear them, amplify them instead: this will make the sound louder and hearable without clipping it.
OR. . . keep all of your track volumes low before they start clipping and then when you do your final mix down, amplify the whole thing. because think about it, why would u turn up everything track by track if u want your full song just be louder? all that will do is give the tracks more hiss and clipping in the final mix.
try it out, man.

Good luck!
Jay, the master of home recording.
 
So Jay, as a side question, how does one become "the master" of home recording?
 
well i can vouch for n-track.. its the best thing that has ever happened to me...haha

honestly though - for 60 bucks you can get any better.
you can do - as far as i know - basically ANYTHING that you can with another more expensive program. The only drawback i've experianced is that it DOES crash occationally. Wierd program faults that just shut it down - but as long as you are saving enough, it's fine...lol. Really the only thing i've experianced to make it crash is using a lot of effects, esp. a lot of those free ones (for example certain BlueLine effects).


but back to your original post...thats pretty normal as far as i know. But i'd just set a limiter up at something like -.02db and then mix it as best you can so you dont SEE or HEAR any of the individual tracks clipping (all together of course...dont do this individually). Thats my style..i'm sure the "pros" would strongly disagree with it..ha...but as long as i cant hear it, i'll assume its not there.
 
N-tracks really is the rnc of multitrack recording software. I owned it for a while, and I thought it worked brilliantly on Windows '98. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to play very well when I upgraded to XP. Thankfully Flavio was understanding enough to give me a refund. He really has a good thing going with that program. Nothing you can do on the more expensive ones that can't be done just as well on n-tracks.
 
chessrock said:
N-tracks really is the rnc of multitrack recording software. I owned it for a while, and I thought it worked brilliantly on Windows '98. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to play very well when I upgraded to XP. Thankfully Flavio was understanding enough to give me a refund. He really has a good thing going with that program. Nothing you can do on the more expensive ones that can't be done just as well on n-tracks.
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Interesting that you say that. I could not find one usable effect in the entire program.
 
God, I'm glad I'm using Digital Performer on a Mac! If I had to deal with all the weirdness that has been described here, I'd have quit recording a long time ago. :D
 
Chess,

Thanks for that information..........it has both clarified and confused the issues for me.......lol.

Just to take this a bit further.........because my PC has never been seriously used for music/audio applications and never as a games machine, I have it set up with a SB AWE64 Gold card, and that has been fine.
An "Audiophile" card retails here for approx., $600 although I can get one for $500. The alternative is to look for a s/hand card........there is a Dman 2044 for sale in the forums here and locally, a guy is wanting to sell the base model Dman PCI card.........at least with these "older" units I don't have to consider upgrading my PC's specs but I don't know how much of an improvement they would be over the SB AWE 64.

Any further comments welcomed:)

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