i have a digital recorder/mixer with a CD/R-RW drive built in to burn
CD's directly from the unit.

however, when i mix down, everything sounds fine through the headphones, and the levels are right up near 0 dB.

but the mix is too quiet and soft on CD

actually, the bass and drums sound good, but the guitars and vocals are too quiet.

Hey guys..i m Shezan. i have few tracks finally mixed and they are sounding very good. the problem is that... my client is comparing the sound level or you can call it gain to indians and those form Hollywood or english side Uk bla bla bla. etc. the difference in the sound is around 14Db and believe me there is no one in my country to do a master like them.

Hi, I'm a 2nd year music technology student, and I'm writing pop/hip hop music for a vocalist. We just got a large amount of money from investors to make an album, so it has to sound very very good.

I have a Tascam US-122 USB Audio Interface. It has 2 mike inputs and two inserts and direct monitoring. I am using Adobe Audition. Is there anyway i can send reverb from Adobe into my Tascam so i can hear it in my head phones while actually recording. I dont want it to record the wet signal just dry. Help! What do i need to be able to do this.

Should I mix down from my DAW to my 1" 30 ips? Maybe L on 1-4 tracks and R on 5-8?

hey I have seen singers(James Hetfield of Metallica) in the studio tracking vocal takes without head phones and I want to do thid for my singer as well. he says the phones make him a little more uptight and to have a set of speakers playing at him would make it feel more like the band is in the room with him.

An earlier user wrote this down in one of my post.

You may want to look at the way you are summing your mix as well. Looks like you do it inside the Daw.

Take a look at the API or Dangerous Music Summing BUS RAck Stuff. That can really open up the mix and make it sound bigger and more natural.

Help me recording.org... Your my only hope,

HI all, I hope I'm on the right forum, not being a mastering engineer. I've just completed a mix that I'm happy with. I'm sending it out to a really well known studio in my city to be mastered. The only problems with the mix were the drums, that for various reasons were hard to get thick enough as well as enough low end. I finally came up with the best mix I could and it's pretty decent.

Hi all,

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In many mixes I hear, some sounds - vocals, guitars etc. - often appear to be in "their own space". Hard to describe, but it's as if they have had their eq 'scooped out' - and as tho they have their own acoustic space.