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Ok, I've been at it for many years and everybody knows there are a hundered and one ways to skin a cat, being a newbie to this site (found it by accident! lol) i was wondering how you guys skin your cat!! j/k. How does everbody else here get their clean mix with good seperation and enough headroom to let everything breathe. Just thought i'd be friendly and pose an open ended question to introduce myself.
 
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I like kitty-cats, and would probably never skin one. But if I had to, I would probably use something that would be nice and gentle on them. Like a set of clippers on mild setting.

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Eccentrica said:
Ok, I've been at it for many years and everybody knows there are a hundered and one ways to skin a cat, being a newbie to this site (found it by accident! lol) i was wondering how you guys skin your cat!! j/k. How does everbody else here get their clean mix with good seperation and enough headroom to let everything breathe. Just thought i'd be friendly and pose an open ended question to introduce myself.
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The only cats that I wouldn't happily run over with a Hummer are the ones that act like dogs :cool: .

But to answer your question, it's all in the planning and the tracking. If you don't get good tracks to stick to disc, you won't get a clean mix with good seperation. And the only way to get good tracks is to plan your production ahead of time and technique the tracking with the final mix in mind.

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The arrangement is important too. e.g. A bunch of guitars and keyboards playing very middly parts will be hard to separate. Clean punchy recordings often have clean punchy arrangements.

For headroom - don't record too hot. If you're using 24-bit there's no need to squeeze everything into the top few dB. Some people aim to record at close to the level that the track will be played back at (allowing a bit for the addition of compression down the line). I didn't understand that in my analogue days but now I monitor at calibrated levels and it makes sense.
 
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