Hi gang,

Havin' trouble mixing a HEAVY rock band. I know a bit about leaving room for frequencies, but I'm a little stumped on this one.

The band has two guitars (tuned down a few steps), a bass (also tuned down), and busy drum parts. I suppose the good news is the singing is higher pitched screaming (no cookie monster vox).

Is there any advantage to mix, and or process the center channel information on a seperate bus?
--Rick

I have an idea that we need terrible gear:-

It's so easy now to get hold of great sounding gear - lush reverbs, linear mics, etc. but is this a good thing?

If every single track is recorded at maximum quality and clarity don't mixes get choked so that everything competes for the attention?

Just wanted to let you guys know that I'm a new Logic 4.5 user. I'm wondering if I have any questions can they and will they be answered here?

Computer (now) PC, Pentium 266, 198 mb ram, Maxtor 5400 10 gig harddrive, Soundblaster Live Value, 17 Inch monitor

Keyboard (Radio Shack MD-1200) (don't laugh it has midi and autoaccompaniment)

Does anyone know if Chuck shut the greatidea website down? Can't seem to get any response from the server at all today.

http://www.greatidea.com/paris/

Mixerman.. Oh, mixerman..! I bought all this gear, and.. and.. I layed a lot of tracks, real good one's... and they all sounded great.. and then I played them all together and they sound like.. little, you know? Everything became unimportant, and little, and WAY back there in the bayou, kinda.

Usually we hear that spcae is added to a mix by taking things out or away. Yet i hear of people actually creating space by adding or modifying elements of a mix, how can this be, are there frequencies that, when added, create space?

What mic/mics and techniques are you using to record trumpet, flugel horn and sax? I am extremely
happy with my vocal mic (BLUE BlueBerry) but it doesn't seem to cut it for trumpet. With a budget of about $500.00,should I be looking at large or small diaphragm condensers?

OneMan

Kind of off topic for the forum but I know a lot of people hated Netscape 6 including me. It never worked properly.

I downloaded 6.1 tonight and it's pretty nice. It updated everything perfect. Except for my message filters. I had to reasign them again.

I looks better and java text is actually readable using it. It does use a bit more memory but I recommend it.