Mixing techniques

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i'm using cubase sx2 and i'm having problems having a good mix
that sound louder as a cd can sound.

i'm also having problems with mastering, does PAZ frequences
can help me having a mix that sound nice from 30-20000 hz.

should i mix my music with headphones or in my speakers ...
 
Use your speakers. Commercial CD loudness is achieved through professional mastering. Get it sounding the best you can using individual track EQ and compression, then send it off to a professional mastering engineer if that is your ultimate goal.
 
mixing techniques

so you're saying that even if i'm using an audiophile 2496
with a presonus bluetube preamp mic

it's not quite a deal to exchange it for a digidesign digi001 with protools 6.4

because that's what i'm about to...

it won't make a difference for mixing, recording my tracks

either one or the other will sound like a professionnal or close mix cd pros
 
Professional mastering should always be better than what you can do yourself but with that in mind experimenting is what homerecording is all about. Use the speakers when mixing. You can use the headphones for making critical decisions occasionally. Leave yourself about 6db's of headroom when you do the mix. Then try a little bit of eq and compression and then normalize. See if that helps you out some.
 
mixing techniques

Leave yourself about 6db's of headroom when you do the mix

what do you mean, i'm not really sure i understand...

also, i've a subwoofer that plays from 20-200 hz

my speakers 60-20000 hz should i use my sub or not
 
Depends on how your room is treated. If you're in an untreated room with lots of reflections the sub could cause more problems than it would help. Leavine headroom on your master bus (3 - 6 dB below 0) is a good idea to allow some room for mastering compression/limiting. If you're mastering it yourself you may want to do this any way; bounce your songs down to two tracks, then reimport them into a new session for mastering. Doing a good job of mastering has as much to do with experience as it does gear. I don't know that moving to PT would help you out all that much.
 
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You're wasting everybody's time; most of all yours.

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southside glen mixing techniques !!!

what does that mean , posting prank phone calls...

you're saying to ME i'm wasting everyboby's time...

i don't know you and you don't know me....

i'm trying to exchange knowledge so that we can all work
an acheive our goals together....

help your next man i'll help you...
 
POUPOUDAMN said:
Leave yourself about 6db's of headroom when you do the mix

what do you mean, i'm not really sure i understand...

also, i've a subwoofer that plays from 20-200 hz

my speakers 60-20000 hz should i use my sub or not
Click to expand...
When you mix down to stereo keep your main fader at 0dbs and don't let the channels you mix push your meter past -6db. Take your mixed stereo track and eq if needed, compress it to flatten the high peaks and then normalize it. That will raise the loudness plenty. Keep the subwoofers hooked up for reference and any other set of speakers you might have around. One of the tricks to mastering is getting your mix to sound good on many other systems.
 
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To Poo Poo Damn,

Of course I know you you are. You are a 20 yr old college student who claims to have "turned a corner" and curbed your vandalistic tendancies towards this forum, but in reality are still acting as much like a 10-yr-old as you were a week ago.

To the anonymous troll who chastised me in private to "let the admin do the policing", if you'd bother to get to know the territory before making your cowardly anonymous slap, you'd know that this place has no moderator.

For both of those reasons, on top of all the rest of the noise, dudes, I have decided that this place is just not worth it. You both will be happy to hear that I am gone.

And no, the door won't hit me in the ass on the way out....
 
mixing techniques

so you're saying this:

after i've recorded all the tracks in cubase sx 2
( about 60 audio tracks most of the time ) ( rap music needs lot of tracks )

i mixdown my 60 tracks down to a stereo tracks
with a 0db master fader at a level meter of -6db.

after that,
open a new session an duplicate this stereo + pan one right and one left
( maybe just a stereo without duplicating it to have a left and right independant... )

finally, eq, compression and normolize... is that right...


also, i'm rapping or singing in 2x4 room closer than 1 feet to the mic
should i be 2 or 3 feet from the mic...
it is important to be around 0db when i'm miking a vocal
or the vocal can go from -30db to -10db with a problem.....
 
southside glen mixing techniques

look, sometimes it's better to close your mouth....

I'm a D.E.P. audiovisuel technicien certified....

Don't TALK about what and who you don't know...

Like i said earlier, help the next man problems i'll help you...

let's exchange knowlegde so we can all achieve our goals....

no matter what they say, that's all...
 
mixing techniques

so you're saying this:

after i've recorded all the tracks in cubase sx 2
( about 60 audio tracks most of the time ) ( rap music needs lot of tracks )

i mixdown my 60 tracks down to a stereo tracks
with a 0db master fader at a level meter of -6db.

after that,
open a new session an duplicate this stereo + pan one right and one left
( maybe just a stereo without duplicating it to have a left and right independant... )

finally, eq, compression and normolize... is that right...


also, i'm rapping or singing in 2x4 room closer than 1 feet to the mic
should i be 2 or 3 feet from the mic...
it is important to be around 0db when i'm miking a vocal
or the vocal can go from -30db to -10db with a problem.....
 
that's right...

How far you should stand from the mic depends on how big your mouth is, so to speak. Get closer for quieter passages.

More channels = less headroom. Start the vocal at -12db if you have enough room after how many channels? 60 wow. If not try lowering it -13, -14 etc.
 
so you know..normalizing is a destructive measure..here is an alernative that is nondestructive.

I will make my mix, and then send every track into a submix. This is my volume mix. I boost it around 6db or so and adjust it if I have peaks. I think my last mix was boosted around 4.5 db or so. this got the song peaking at 0 and averaged a volume of -2. this will leave me enough headroom for my mastering engineer, or for me if were to run it through an L2 and master it myself.
 
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