I produce rap 'beats', and when I have someone who'd like to rap over it and records it, adding them to the mix [which is already the 2track mix-down w/o vox] doesn't sound like they fit well.

What can I do if I can't touch the instrumentals? Or no matter what I try to add/configure, it just isn't going to be a good mix?

much appreciation,

I usually work with analog tape in my home studio.
for the first time, these things had been throw at me.
i need to mix down from protool and the final result is a Cd to give to a customer.
what is the best chain here to mix down?

here are what I got to use;

Greetings

Digi's new 5.3.1 software will have a new mix bus, here is some preliminary info on it. I'll have more info on my website this week end. There is more details in the Pro Tools section int the DAW forum.

Hello there, I have a question. I heard people saying about doubling rhythm guitars for the left side then for the right side so you can have some heavy/fat guitars... how do you pan those? Hard left and hard right or hard left/45 left and hard right/45 right? Thanks!

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my band is researching some potential mixing engineers to hire to mix each of our 2 CDs. each has ~70 minutes worth of music on them. approx. how many 12 hour days should we budget for to mix that much music? the songs are fairly long, if that makes a difference - the first CD has 8 songs and the second has 9.

Which do you folks prefer? I just learned about this alternative to bounce to disk recently. Which one sound better?

Hello guys, I've posted this song a long time ago, but I only finished it a couple of days ago... and it's on http://www.mp3.com/… mp3.com right now. Thanks for any replies!

Just wanted to get an idea of how many Mix users out there are making the HD upgrade. Why, and what are you motivations behind it? Thanks.

Maybe you would like to hear the difference?. This was tracked and mixed by a fellow engineer here in town. This was a big daddy session too. 60 piece orchestra at Ocean Way on the 80 input Neve 8078. (Session cost came out to something like $1.60 per second!)