If you restrict yourself to four tracks in Cubase, does this fix your problem? If so, you need to go back to mixing school, not buy more gear. Buying more gear will make your mixes even harder to untangle.

I mute tracks down to drums and bass get that sounding correct and then add in acoustic guitar and so on to practice mixing, but the more I add tha worst it sounds ? Yes I probably need to go back to school, or just continue practicing that is!

I would think about some better monitors but first I would spend some time checking out your room. If your room is problematic, even good skills and equipment won't produce good mixes. You HAVE to be able to accurately hear what's going on before you can do anything with it.

:)

drbam

Try a few of these. Some work, some may not.

3D
Mixing and the Art of Equalization (by Stephen Sherrard - music-and-technology.com
- 2002)

A
Day in the Life: Mix Magic on Music Row (by Brian Knave - Electronic Musician -
Dec 1999)

Basic
Overdubbing (by Hugh Robjohns & Mike Senior - SOS - Mar 2001)

Dance
Mixing: Increasing Loudness in Dance Music Production (by Paul White & Mike
Senior - SOS - Jun 2001)

Designing
the Large-Format Digital Console (by Roger Maycock - Mix - Aug 2000)

Fix
It in the Mix: How Not to Get a Good Recording (by Rip Rowan - ProRec - Aug
1998)

Getting
the Inside Dope from the Hottest Mixers in Manhattan (by Jimmy Douglas - Mix -
Nov 1999)

Got
You Covered: Multiple Mixes (by Kevin Smith - Electronic Musician - Nov 2001)

Hit
Men (by Michael Cooper - Electronic Musician - Jan 2002)

How
2 Mix Good (by Kent Williams - beatmaka - Jun 2000)

How
to Mix a Pop Song from Scratch (by Jezar - Dreampoint - Nov 2000)

Improve Your
Stereo Mixing (by Paul White - SOS - Oct 2000)

Introduction To
Mixer Automation, Part 1 (by Paul White - SOS - Jan 2000)

Introduction
To Mixer Automation, Part 2 (by Paul White - SOS - Feb 2000)

Mixdown
Formats: What Should I Mix Down To? (by Paul White - SOS - Apr 2002)

Mixdown Suggestions (by James
McCanna - pcrecording.com)

Mixed
Signals: Mixer Topography (by Barry Cleveland - Electronic Musician - Nov 2000)

Mixing Board:
Unravel the Mystery of the Mixing Console (by Brad Gallagher - just-for-musicians.com)

Mixing Fundamentals,
Part 1 (by Ed Rei - HomeRecording.com)

Mixing Fundamentals, Part
2 (by Ed Rei - HomeRecording,com)

Mixing Fundamentals, Part 3 (by
Ed Rei - HomeRecording.com)

Mixing
Fundamentals, Part 4 (by Ed Rei - HomeRecording.com)

Mixing
in a Pro Tools World (by Blair Jackson - Mix - May 2002)

Mixing
in the Round (by Mike Sokol - Electronic Musician - May 2001)

Mixing Made
Easy (by Michael Laskow - Audio Recording Center)

Mixing
Multi-tracked Drums (by Paul White - SOS - Feb 2001)

Mixing
Programmed and Real Instruments Successfully (by Sam Inglis - SOS - Sep 2001)

Mixing
Tips for Vocals (by Jay Kahrs - ProRec - Sep 1998)

Mixing
with a Master (by Mike Levine with Eddie Kramer - Electronic Musician - Sep
2000)

Mysteries
of Mixing (by Brian Knave - Electronic Musician - Apr 2001)

Panning
Doubles (by Robert Dennis - The Recording Website - 2000)

Panning
for Gold (by Randy Neiman - Electronic Musician - Mar 2002)

Perfect Mix, The (by Rich
the Tweakmeister - Tweakheadz)

Point-to-Point:
Creating a Mix from the Ground Up, Part 1 (by Rip Rowan - ProRec - Dec 1999)

Point
to Point 2: Building a Mix from the Ground Up... Again (by Rip Rowan - ProRec -
Sep 2000)

Polished
Production: Giving Your Recordings a 'Produced' Sound (by Paul White - Sound On
Sound -Oct 1999)

Practical
Mixing (by Hugh Robjohns - SOS - Jan 2002)

Pros
& Cons of Software & Hardware Mixers (by Paul White - SOS - Mar 2001)

Recording
Garbage (by Sam Inglis - SOS - Jun 2002)

Remixing
Hotshots (by Erik Hawkins - Mix - Oct 2002)

Secrets of Mixing (by
John Vestman - John Vestman Mastering - Dec 2000)

Shaping Your
Mix (by Robert Dennis - The Recording Website - 2000)

Stereo
Editing, Part 1 (by Paul White - SOS - Jan 2000)

Stereo
Editing, Part 2 (by Paul White - SOS - Feb 2000)

Stereo
Editing, Part 3 (by Paul White - SOS - Mar 2000)

Software
Mixing With Hardware MIDI Controllers (by Paul White - SOS - Mar 2002)

Surround
(R)Evolution (by Blair Jackson - Mix - Aug 2001)

Surround
Solutions (by Blair jackson - Mix - Jun 2002)

Surround
Sound Explained, Part 1 (by Hugh Robjohns - SOS - Aug 2001)

Surround
Sound Explained, Part 2 (by Hugh Robjohns - SOS - Sep 2001)

Surround
Sound Explained, Part 3 (by Hugh Robjohns - SOS - Oct 2001)

Surround
Sound Explained, Part 4 (by Hugh Robjohns - SOS - Nov 2001)

Surround
Sound Explained, Part 5 (by Hugh Robjohns - SOS - Dec 2001)

Surround
Sound Explained, Part 6 (by Hugh Robjohns - SOS - Jan 2002)

Surround
Sound Explained, Part 7 (by Hugh Robjohns - SOS - Feb 2002)

Surround
Sound Explained, Part 8 (by Matt Bell - SOS - Mar 2002)

Surround
Sound Explained, Part 9 (by Matt Bell - SOS - Apr 2002)

Sympathetic
Mixing: How to Set Up a Good Mix (by Duke Ashton - Sound On Sound - Aug 1995)

Take
Control! (by Rob Shrock and Brian Smithers - Electronic Musician - Feb 2002)

- High
End Control Surfaces (by Rob Shrock - Electronic Musician - Feb 2002)

- Inexpensive
Control Surfaces (by Brian Smithers - Electronic Musician - Feb 2002)

- Social
Mixers (by Larry the O - Electronic Musician - Feb 2002)

- Top-Notch
for Pro Tools (by Larry the O - Electronic Musician - Feb 2002)

Ten
Tips for Nailing a Mix (by Brian Knave - Electronic Musician - Jul 2000)

The Last Waltz:
Recording, Mixing, and Remaking the Music (by Blair Jackson & Chris Michie -
Mix - Sep 2002)

Thinking
Outside the Boxes (by Kenneth A. Woods - Electronic Musician - Jun 2002)

Understanding
The Virtual Mixer (by Paul White - SOS - Aug 2000)

Universe
for a Song, The (by Tim Tully - Electronic Musician - Jun 2002)

Using a
Hardware Mixer with Your Computer (by Paul White - SOS - Jun 2002)

Warming
Trends (by Erik Hawkins - Electronic Musician - Feb 2000)

Why
Your Mixes Suck (by Lionel Dumond - ProRec - Nov 1998)

Wide Angle:
Improving Your Stereo Mixing (by Paul White - Sound on Sound - Oct 2000)

You're
Surrounded (by Mike Sokol - Electronic Musician - Oct 2000)

Well, I guess they haven't enabled HTML on this forum yet. You can just copy the links out of the code or copy the whole thing and make an HTML file out of it. Lots of good links there.

Or just go [[url=http://[/URL]="http://web.archive…"]here.[/]="http://web.archive…"]here.[/]

Thanks for the advice.

Looks like someone else has updated the Studio Projects links here. Many good souarces.

http://www.theprojectstudiohandbook.com/

Hemmick, let me ask you something. I noticed you never mentioned what sound card you're using in your setup. This may be the culprit to your less than desired mixes that's being produced. Thought this would help get you going in the right direction.

dabmeister music,

I use an Edirol DA2496