My overall question is about the finalizing of your mix?

1.When you mixdown, should you mixdown to a single(stereo) wave? or should you do two(mono) panned left/right?

2.Should you use two tracks. both in stereo. just to add fullness

Would like to get a sample orchestral piece to teach other folks here at Church how to mix down. We will be using an Alesis HD-24. Does anyone offers onse song (for example) in twenty-four track for this putpose?

What's a good db level to reach for during mixdown? I've been told by 2 different MEs on 2 different projects that my mixes were too loud, so it messed up the overall master. However, they didn't tell me what to aI'm for. I want to get the most out of my mixes during the mastering process. Help please.

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When I mix all tracks to a new set of stereo tracks does the sound depend on my AD's or AD/DA's. .? ( not a dump/audio export/what not) but a live mixdown

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a question for the professionals, if i may...

okay, so you've finished your arrangement, a combination of midi and audio parts and you're about to start the actual mixing process. first you have to mixdown your midi to an audio track. i'm talking here about computer-based recording but i suppose the question would be the same for tape-based recording too.

Hi everyone,

I'm currently doing a project on a PC in Cubase SX 2 and after tracking was done, I got the levels I wanted for each mic and then put them into buses. (ie 8 mics on drums, made a drum bus, 4 mics on guitar amp, put into a guitar bus, etc) This made it much easier to get the proper levels in the main mix as one fader controlled many channels for the same instrument.

I need advice on buying a new set of studio monitors. I'll mainly be doing music mixidowns, and a little film post work and some light mastering jobs. Heres the catch...I don't want to spend over $650.
I'm seriously considering the Tannoy System 600 monitors.
Has anyone heard these? Dones anyone have any suggestions for monitors that would be better?
-thanks

Im very curiouse about all this analog stuff I keep reading. I read in an article that a lot of short budget pro's are tracking to digital and then mixdown to an analog reel 2 reel and then back into the DAW to add more warmth, punch and depth to the music.

hi...i have been doing all my projects using Nuendo...the studio where i want to get a final mix/mastering done only has Pro Tools...

i can do a mixdown of each track in WAV and open it in Pro Tools but i was wondering if there is an advantage of doing the mixdown in OMF (have never done OMF mixdowns so completely illiterate about that)...

hi ..
I'm wondering if there are any digial artifacts that are added or compression or the like when you do an audio mix down in Cubase .

I'm getting my stuff ready for vinyl, the track is complete in Cubase and now i have to do a mix down . I used to be an old gear head and sequenced externally so this is my firt new song on this crazy computer machine. .