i'm curious as to what i can do to make my recordings not sound like crap when they go through the radio's compressors and limiters and whatnot. i want to keep my mixes dynamic, but what can i do to the whole thing to make it not sound like crap when it runs through those compressors? should i fight compression with compression? and if so how?

I have a 256 SAMSUNG PC2700 in my machine.
I saw that BBuy has 256 Crucial PC2100 for $25.

Running P4 1.6a at 2.1 (or so I recall...)

Any solutions? I just need more RAM and this seemed to jump into my lap.

Thanks.

JZ

(Feel free to add theory and info to your answer, I appreciate 'gettin' my learn on'. :)

JZ

Hi friends!
Following the same idea presented in my other post, now I would like to see your comments about
Equalizers. below, the list of "candidates":

1) bomb factory Pultec EQP1A
2) Focusrite d2/ d6 red collection
3) TC EQ SAT
4) Waves Q series, in this case Q6 to keep things in the same boat.

Hi friends. I have to be honest that I am asking the same question at the DUC also.

first of all, I would like to have your opinions about compressors. Which one(s) do you think have provided you better results with specific recording/mixing techniques and different instruments and voices.

I've heard that there are physical groove reasons why the bass must be dead-center for vinyl pressings.

I, like everyone, dig the punch of a mono bass in lock-step with a kick, but...

There are times, though, that I run across either the urge or the need (!) to do a *really* wide bass either split-delayed l/r @10ms, or actually 2 different hard-panned bass sounds.

In a quandry... I have a Mix+ system, running on a G4/933. But even still I find myself running out of DSP on serious mixes. I want to buy a used Mix Farm, but I can't really afford it. I've used a U87ai for about seven years. But since I bought a Lawson L47 a few years ago, that has been my "go to" mic about 95% of the time. The U87 just kind of gathers dust.

Okay in this climate of every man and his dog having some Waves plugins running under Wavelab or whatever, what are the DO's and DONT'S if mixes are going to be sent out to a mastering house?

Hi friends! In early 90's, referring to 44.1/48k/16 bit masters coming from DAT machines, SVHS ADATs and so, people urged mixing engineers to stay at o db at the louder passes. However, nobody had a real reliable clip counter.

I have lost the number of how many times I received DAT tapes for my junior mastering with up to 64 clips at the left or right or even both channels.

Ive heard of many engineers who run final mixes onto 2' tape what is the purpose of this ; is it for the tape saturation and if so can magneto do the same thing .. please respond

I like the sound of mixing 8 channels out of my 001 into my 1642 mackie. I like separating 8 channel into analog. Sounds big ! Problem is when I record that fat mix back to hard drive the new 2 channels don't sound that good. How do I get that nice separated/fat sound on final 2 tracks.