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I'm rarely inclined to make vocal up/down mixes for myself. I usually make the decision and move on, I never have artists asking for it. Had a management Co. ask for mixes plus a vocal up mix recently. I did a number of single/EP projects with one band in the past couple of years. For final delivery...

I've had songs used for things like Ugly Betty, Gossip Girl, How I Met Your Mother, Nike, Fujifilm, some MTV shows and as themes for BBC programmes. I've also written a fair bit of music for commercials and for corporate use. Most times with the band we had a label or a publisher to do the negotiati...

I've mixed a couple of albums on the RP6s. I found both projects incredibly difficult. In the end I was trusting headphones equally as much as the monitors and spent most of the time in a "it'll sound like 'x' when I get it out of here" The mixes sounded completely different on any other system. I g...

I've heard similar thoughts from some engineers and come across it in a good few articles over the years: such as: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul08/articles/qa0708_1.htm I've never heard it to be an issue for me. It's something that's always stuck in the back of my mind though. I can think of a...

There's Windmill Lane. U2 links n all. http://www.windmilllanerecording.com/ Outside Dublin by about 40 mins there's Grouse Lodge, where Muse made a fair bit of Absolution, it's in the documentary, where they're tracking drums outside and in the swimming pool etc. www.grouselodge.com It's also linke...

Nick, I know that internet forums are awash with misunderstandings and misread sentences. If you had have blasted out those phrases in a bar, we could have talked this out in five minutes, I'd probably have made my point a lot clearer too. Perhaps I'll keep all such talk to the bar in future! Tried ...

And, it's certainly within the realm of possibilities that you're hitting the limit of your CPU, not because the computer is not fast enough, but because you're indecisive or unsure of how to get the sound you're after without "creating" it in the computer. I initially asked about excessive use of ...

Nick, I can see where this whole thing has come from! I was answering a question from the poster above me who asked "who's using HD and maxing out their systems?" I was merely answering the question, stating that I do. I wasn't asking for advice on how to make it better, I know the answer. I need mo...

Actually, maybe I'm being unfair (maybe!) Are you trying to offer me advice to fix my problems? I don't have a problem! I was merely answering a question. My processing is way down the list behind a good few things at the moment. You have the same issues of limitation that I have if you are bouncing...

But I must say, I almost NEVER get to 60-96 tracks per song. That is ridiculous. It's not the way you work. It is the way I often work, it's the way many people that I respect also work. It's how certain records that I love are made. In this sense, I think it's ignorant to uninvitedly project a les...

You MUST be doing something wrong. Way wrong. Learn to use the MICROPHONES and MIC PREAMPS to get the sound you're after. Use outboard mixers and EQs to get as close as possible to the sound desired. then mixing is more of a balance / panning thing, and adding ambience if needed. If you need to mes...

I'm running HD3. I'm maxing out on almost every mix. I can remember switching over from a mix+ system and thinking "I'm never going to use all these tracks/plug ins" but I do and I wish I had more. But if I got more, I'd probably want more again. The biggest studio limitations that I've become aware...

I spent nine days (and about 120 hours) tracking a handful of demos/ second steps of pre production for an N.Irish band called In Case Of Fire. Long days, loads to do, but it's been my favourite session so far. I've been working with them for about six years now, it just keeps getting more fun and m...

settings and tips are here:

http://www.empiricallabs.com/distman.html

I tracked a five piece brass section for a ska album recently, I went with a mixture of Re20s, 421s and 441s close up, but the basis of the sound came from a pair of LDCs about 10ft away, another pair in a wooden room next door and one more pair top & bottom of a nearby three story stairwell. Captur...