Sep 24, 2008 09:20 am Welcome to HRC, cheetos .
Here's a good place to start...
www.homerecordingconnecti...story&id=41
... and there's a part two, as well . : )
Mixing down
Posted on Sep 24, 2008 01:15 am
cheetos
Member Since: Sep 24, 2008
Hello people.
I have entered into a competition where you get to mix down a bands song. You get their seperate tracks and you can record your own instruments over theirs etc.
I have finished all recording of instruments and have them all lined up (multitrack view) how i want the song to flow.
My question is- should i be EQ, Normalizing and hard-limiting each of the tracks in my mixdown?
Is there any order to which to do?
I am using cool edit pro.
Ive got about 2 weeks till the entry is due so any fast help will be appreciated.
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Sep 24, 2008 09:20 am Welcome to HRC, cheetos .
Here's a good place to start...
www.homerecordingconnecti...story&id=41
... and there's a part two, as well . : )
Sep 24, 2008 09:15 pm I wish one of you guys could be here helping me. :c(
When it comes to figuring out which things to EQ and removing mid lows etc (things i have heard about on this forum) I am not all there. I know that in Cool edit you can generate a graphical view of what the wave form looks like and compare them to the other instruments (similar to the diagrams in here- www.homerecordingconnecti...tory&id=154
I just cant figure it out. I guess we all had to start somewhere, there is more to it than just lining them up and mixing them down to a file and i wish i knew as much about it as some of you guys do.
Sep 24, 2008 09:54 pm best article on the subject of mixing www.homerecordingconnecti...tory&id=154
I wouldn't hard limit or normalize each track, normalize the entire mix, if necessary, EQ each track just to stay out of each others way.
Sep 25, 2008 10:16 am That article that dB mentioned is pretty much what started me down the right road when I came here sometime in 2003... made the first 'world of difference' in my approach .
It will all come to you, in time . That's one of the cool things about puting together your own studio... you get to learn at your own pace, and the things you really need to know present themselves at a rate that is relative to your capacity to use and retain . The mistakes you make now are invaluable, for they will make very obvious the 'what not to do' . I mean, you could learn all the right ways to do something, and make minimal mistakes, but without being sure of the why, it wont mean much . So take your time, and have some fun while you're at it . = )
Sep 25, 2008 10:24 pm Could I get by for the moment just using the Hi Mid and Lo EQ for each track. Messing around to get the right sound?
E.g. For a drum track I found that if I highten the low it becomes bass heavy, but if i highten the 'lo' and 'hi' it is bass heavy and the symbols etc have more punch.
Sep 25, 2008 11:29 pm You can do whatever your ears tell you to do.
Oct 06, 2008 06:41 pm Hey guys, here is my submission to the competition I was talking about. I done as best as I could with the mixing and mastering. Thanks for your help.
The more votes I get the better chance I have of winning.
www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/3115
Please vote for me (if you like it)
Thanks!
Oct 06, 2008 10:02 pm Pretty cool. Nicely done, stayed pretty true to the original with some nice touches.
Got my vote in.
Oct 06, 2008 11:11 pm Hey, thanks for the support!.
Did you have to create an account to vote?... I am just wondering.
Oct 07, 2008 04:45 pm Na, it did ask for my email so they could send a confirmation link though. But they have a check box to promise not to pester you if you choose not to join up.
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