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OK thanks, maybe I'm abusing the EQ

I mean my high and low cut on bass are practically flat cliffs, you know what I mean, put it on lo-pass or hi-pass and drag that thing over. I can get a pretty good flat shape going there.
This is crazy, I'll try shelves
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hey thanks everyone , gott print this one more question I just tried alot of stuff with this on a rock mix, 30 tracks- 4 guitars, 10 voices, 1 bass, full drumkit... I found that everything is alot better, and I can hear the Bass alot better without having to crank it. BUT I hear this slight =HISSSS=...

What do Fugazi and Hoobastank have in common? They were the closest CDs layin around when I decided to do this frequency analyzer test. I did so because I gave my band the first of several "Real" mixes of our CD I just finished, and the first comment was "I couldn't crank it in my car cuz the low en...

hi thanks guys what I'm doing now as it is, is having a guitar group bus, a harmony vocal bus and an overheads bus. This is pleasing. Much better than I had before. I've just delivered Mix #1 to the band and I'll have about 10 days or so to tinker with this some more. I'm not telling them, but actua...

hi- I have the luxury of a top and bottom snare mic on my band's mixes I'm working on (for our homemade CD). This is my "hi-quality" problem.... I understand the benefits of it in terms of livlieness and snap, but the bottom mic track is starting to really bug me. While mixing the kit, with each top...

hey thanks guys Joel- the idea of going in with a chainsaw and AARRGH make everything fit- that made me totally laugh out loud and everybody here was lookng at me like I was crazy. This is totally =me=. I'm working on a cure for this behavior now. I'll be trying to uncover the purest tones from each...

yeah what we have is the leader/lead singer giving me his hard disc recorder with 7 vocal tracks, 2 takes of the lead an 5 different harmonies, sometimes human doubles, sometimes =all= different. Then I import them into the Sonar project. Then to that I add human doubles of two parts for Me (4x), hu...

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I think whats happening is I'm trying to get Clarity and "sparkle" from everything but the Kick!
I need to compromise somewhere. I'm not trying for a Modern in-your-face sound. I need to listen to some Zeppelin or Floyd and come back to reality.

OK thanks ! these was the kind of generalizations I was looking for. Alack we are not sending this to a Pro, I'm the one in the band who does all this stuff and we're basically making something to give out at gigs and to our families. Hopefully with decent quality and something we won't have any reg...

40+ tracks. for a rock band? If so Why are you needing so many tracks? because we CAN !! Just kidding because we have like a gillion backing vocal tracks with each person contributing something. Instrument tracks are pretty basic. I've got no more than 4 rythm guitars (usually less) in any given so...

It would be impossible for someone to post a fix-all mastering EQ setting. That's really what you're asking for, right? Have a look at the frequency spectrum of the mixdown file. I find that many of the home recording mixes that I get in to master have a HUGE gap in the recording between 1k-2k and ...

hello, in your experience, what are the most common areas for harshness once a 40+ track mix is bounced down to stereo? I've been sweeping and tinkering with individual tracks before bouncing, and doing tiny cuts on fullmix stereo files. But I was hoping someone had a magic GOOD setting on their EQ'...

hey thanks how about, making a stereo track of the full kit with no FX, then a little tastfully carefully applied reverb on that to simulate a =good= room.? ............................Not everything you hear on the radio is triggered drums. I hate it when people mistake a good recording for trigge...

I'm mainly a player, who happens to be the only one in the band who's into the recording stuff. My studio is 1/3 sectioned off in my apartment bedroom, using Sonar software and Yorkville monitors. On a 2'x4' folding table.
My dayjob is as a broadcast buyer at an ad agency.

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