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  1. Rozovian is right. we can better help you, if you're more specific on what exactly you'd like to do better than in FL.

    I use SONAR X1 Producer. I'm pretty happy with its workflow, especially now with the smart tool. But it has some compatibility problems with some plugins, particularly some of Waves stuff. Man, I wish Pro Tools 9 had a demo version.

  2. I've been learning a lot from all this, hope everyone is as well. If you all have time, it'd be cool if everyone can comment on everyone else's mix. :)

    Now for a general question: what's your mixing concept/method/whatever? Do you bring all the faders up and go with it? Do you bring in each instrument at a time? Or something else entirely?

    If everyone digs this little experience, I'll make another next month or so.

  3. My quick mix.

    Used Slate on the kick and snare, put a high pass on the overhead, comp'd the hell out of the vocals and EQ'd pretty aggressively. Re-amped the DI guitar tracks and compressed and EQ'd the bass track. Also, didn't use the double vocal. I just feel like it didn't really fit the track too well.

    Wow, great drum sounds! what version of Slate do you have? also, how does the Leakage Suppression work?

    great guitar sounds too, what are you using to reamp them?

    I think I like your mix best, so far.

    wish I had slate... sounds fantastic! :nicework:

    here's my quick pass, using all provided samples, including drums.

    http://tindeck.com/listen/viny

    I dig the snare sound, provided it's the "real one". how did you treat it?

    I couldn't get it to sound good at all, using the real one.

    did you reamp the guitars?

    You have a good voice!

    Thanks :)

  4. Yeah, the Overhead Mic is pretty fuxxed. You printed all the vox on the overheads, so... here's a mix, can't do anything fun with the vox because otherwise I'll totally lose my cymbals, can't phase the vox out because you printed all over the stereo spectrum and all the harmonies so I can't just duck out a frequency.

    Upload a fixed OH recording and I'll revisit this, otherwise, here you go:

    http://www.dannthr.com/music/dannthr_mix_for_fun.mp3

    I still like your OH sound better than mine, what did you do?

    on another note, I kept thinking mine was way harsh, so I treated the master some.:

    http://tindeck.com/listen/lznq

    is it any better?

  5. Those of you with a little time on their hands, let's play a "game" that'll help us all get better at mixing.

    So I recorded today a song called "Waiting" originally by Hoobastank (those not familiar with it, this is you can listen here), with live drums (played by moi) and mic'd guitar amp. I thought it'd be fun to share the individual tracks with everyone here so we can each have a go at mixing them and help eachother get the best sound possible.

    here's the link to the tracks:

    http://www.mediafire.com/?ghx3vpxsky9mclt

    they are all mono CBR 320kbps mp3s, except for the Overheads and BGV's which are stereo. Since there're a lot of them, I decided to just encode them into high quality mp3s.

    To those curious about the recording methods:

    The drums were recorded with 4 mics, which is all my Fast Track Ultra can handle, pictured below. the Overheads are M-Audio Pulsar II's in ORTF configuration, the bass drum mic is a CAD KBM412 placed inside it angled toward the edge of the drum, and the snare drum mic is an SM57. Obviously, because the drums were played by me and I suck, some tempo correction was needed, I used SONAR's AudioSnap for that. I also just played along with the original song, so syncing it to grid was impossible. Other than that, like all other tracks no other processing was applied.

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    The guitars were mic'd like pictured, the SM57 1" from the grille off-axis and a AKG C214 about 1' away aimed at the cab logo. In addition to that, the DI signal is included for each of the guitars. No fine tuning was made to the guitars' tone, this was really just for fun.

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    Bass was recorded direct and vocals were recorded with the AKG and the SM57 on some of the parts.

    and here's my mix:

    http://tindeck.com/listen/znps

    it's using Waves Gold and CLA Artist bundles, I was particularly amazed with the CLA plugs, especially the Bass one, I got the sound I wanted just by inserting it, no knobs moved. Most of them require aditional processing though.

    I als created a fake room mic by cloning the OH tracks, summing them to mono, squashing them and adding some reverb

    EDIT: a different version, this time, using Slate Trigger demo on the kick and snare tracks.

    http://tindeck.com/listen/xedu

    Any questions about my mix or the recording methods, just ask :)

  6. I'm using Sonar and just got the Waves Gold Bundle. I was wanting to try out Waves Tune LT. I inserted it, it said the ReWire link couldn't be estabilished, so I inserted the Waves ReWire, that was solved. BUT, whenever I press Play, it scans, like it's expected, but nothing will show on its little piano roll. Can anyone help?

    Thanks in advance.

  7. Right now I am currently planning to pick up, or rather download, NI's Mashine. Can anyone tell me if they thought it was worth the 60 bucks? Are there any other libraries that I need to have? I only have Steven Slates Drums and Dimension Pro right now.

    Are you a SONAR user?

    if so, you could try Session Drummer, it comes bundled with SONAR. it's not half bad for electronic drums, it has stuff like 909s and 808s, if that's what you're looking for.

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