Vegas/ mixing in vegas

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I am currently using Vegas 2.0g to do an album demo.
My question is how do I do an internal mix in Vegas?
By this I mean, where do I mix to?
what I have been doing is applying all volume ,pans, fx envelopes and level changes, then rendering to a wave file, or mp3 , just to listen back, I know that this isn't the proper way to do this......
I want to mix down to stereo , then burn to cd.
How do I accomplish this? I have gone on the S.F. forums ,but no one seems very helpful there to be honest..... a simple tutorial????????????
any help would be great ...Thanks in advance Tucker
 
click TOOLS...then RENDER TO NEW TRACK. save the master stereo wav file where you want it.(like on the desktop or in a folder) then just delete the new track from the vegas project afterwards...thats how i do it...i dont know if its the proper way but at least it gets the job done.
-bluelonestar
 
bluelonestar has given you the correct answer. ;)

I would "Render To New Track". Then I would export it to Sound Forge. At that point you could do all the extra "tweaking" you need to do to the stereo file. :D

spin
 
how do I do an internal mix in Vegas?
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I'm confused, what do you mean by "internal mix"?

I just push the play button on the transport, and listen through the monitors. You need to be sure to have routed the preview and/or Bus A to your soundcard. (At least I do that until I have too many tracks/plugins, and things start sputtering.:rolleyes: )

Queue
 
Ok, what I mean by internally mix is, not leave vegas to mix, i.e. don't go to an external mixer........

what you are saying about render to a new track, if I do this it will render the entire mix (12 tracks of audio) to a single stereo track?????
Could it really be that simple??

Thanks for the quick responses from those who responded !!!!!!!!

Tucker
 
Render as = mixdown

Old school
Multitrack tape jacked into mixer, 2 main channels off mixer into mixdown deck.

New school
Multitrack software (Vegas) render as...Stereo .wav (or .mp3, or .wma...)

That's it!

Queue
 
I will admit I am new to Vegas but I'm a little confused...

Couldn't Tuckermonster just do a File > Save As... then pick the file type? Wouldn't that prevent him from having that extra track in his project, therefore removing the extra step of deleting that track?

Just curious as I am learning this stuff to!
 
If you only do a Save as...(.wav,.mp3) then you aren't saving the project (the mix setup you created), just the product of the project (the song).

You need to save the Vegas project as a .veg file, and render it as whatever you want to create (.wav, .mp3...)

Oh yeah, rendering does not insert the rendered file into your project. You'd need to pull it in to a new Vegas project (or into your current one, and mute all your other tracks) to actually hear it.

--But--

As long as you don't have too much for your PC to handle, just hitting the "Play" button on the transport is the way you listen to a mix.

Queue
 
Wonderfully worded, Queue.

I wanted to type that, but I was a little too inembriated (sp?) to type it out in full. :)

npsi
 
In my first question ,I actually asked about just choosing, File,Render as, Wave or Mp3 , It seems to me that there is a differance , when I rendered straight to mp3 this way, it was not coming out sounding properly, (levels too low, guitars sounding like a distorted mess etc.) But when I actually went into tools ,render to a new track, I then got a nice mix sounding like what I was hearing through my monitors on playback.
I then rendered to mp3 and the results were perfect!

tuckermonster
 
I then rendered to mp3 and the results were perfect!
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You lost me on this step. Exactly what did you do to make the good MP3? What was it rendered from? Did you do this in Vegas?

Queue
 
Queue,

Your response about two posts up makes perfect sense. Thanks for clearing it up for me!

-Lunatic
 
Ok what I did when rendering the mp3 was this:

First I went into Tools/render to new track and saved this as a mix.
Next I opened up another vegas project and then opened up the mix via File/open / mix
I rendered it to an mp3 by choosing file/render as/mp3/ then choosing the sample rate (44.1 is what I chose personally)
then save to a folder of choice.
This is how I did the mp3 rendering......
I now have a new problem with overall levels that I will be posting a new thread on....... ahahahahaha it nevber ends!!
Tucker
 
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