I will be making a soundtrack eventually for a friend of mines novel and hope to connect with a few people to help me a little with the mixing processes. I have recorded and made mixes that sound good to me but I wasn't taking the mixing/mastering process seriously.

i wanted to ask you all about a term i've coined, "controlling the customer"

On near-field placement?

I have a pair of Alesis Monitor Ones (passive) and even though the brand name appears upright while on their sides, Alesis actually recommends that for optimum results, the speaker cabinets should be placed upright - with the tweet on top, centered directly over the woof.

If you fall for this one, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you. Check out the description... it's hilarious. This is obviously for the universally rich and the galactically stupid.

When you're mixing, when do you guys start panning? In other words, at what point in the mixing process do you turn your focus onto creating a good spatial landscape?

Hi guys,

I didn't want to step on anybody's thread but I just read one on which someone said ; gear doesn't make good recording, performance does.

I just have enough of those 'What's the most important thing' threads.
So lets just discuss it once and stop the future arguments!

http://musicproductiontips.net/how-to-mix-a-bass-guitar/

I'm using the Blue Yeti and I noticed a lot of hissing sound from the mic. I could use programs to filter it out, but I think it's better to solve the problem from the root. I have a good feeling the hissing sound is coming from feedback from the computer, it's plugged into the "crappy" RealTek one that's stock with most computers.

condition:
1) indoor dance studio about 10m x 10m
2) record conversation (not operator speech)
3) peoples will not always stay on a spot
4) Lavalier mic is not possible
5) env noise is acceptable
6) mount on ceiling at center OR tripod outside the 10m x 10m
7) connect to a small USB mixer (recording to computer)