I recently noticed that there's a shortage of freely downloadable multitrack projects on the net for people to use for mixing practice. Yes, I’ve seen the Nine Inch Nails multitracks, the Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix files, the Real World downloads, and various other well-publicised sources of multitrack projects, but I’ve noticed that the files usually suffer from one of three problems:

If anyone could posibly point out anything i can do to improve the mix of this please let me know as this track is kinda important

Thanks :)

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i was wondering how do engineers get that "in front of your face" sound on vocalists. i am currently mixing down a friend of mine that did a rap on one of my beats. i compressed his track a bit, then sent it to two aux tracks to one panned left and one panned right and slightly lowered the level. any other tips or advice you can give me please!

When I plug the keyboard directly into an input I get static. Even on the lowest of volume. When I connect the keyboard to a DI box and take the output of the DI into a preamp, I get little sound. I have literally tried everything. And I have run out of ideas. Help would very much be appreciated. Thanks!

I'm making the last tweeks to my new home studio and have come across a problem.

For rehearsal and playback of drum machine and recorder, I run 1st through a small 4 channel mixer and then into an amp driving a pair of studio monitors and headphones.

I'm sure there are other topics on this but wanted to get some direct help. Our church went from an analog board to a digital one (Allen &Heath iLive T112). We actually just had some reps come in and put all new equipment in... But I have tried compression and eq'ing but I can get a low punchy kick drum.

In terms of mixing rap vocals, I am wondering if I could possibly do this myself once I get better at it, or if it is much better to just pay to have it done. Some guy at a local studio said he'd do it for $400 per song and there is no way I'm doing that.

So I'm gonna be recording rap vocals within these next few months, and because it's not cheap to get beats and get myself some recording equipment, I decided I might as well put out a 5-7 song EP on CDBaby to make some return on it and get my music out there.

Ok so this is pretty much a straight forward one. I know how I do this and the tone I get sounds pretty awesome.

I'm just wondering because I am open to ideas and always like to learn from people.

What do you guys use to record your bass and what is the typical EQ and compression application you would go by ?

I'm currently using a couple of tiny and cheap desktop speakers to mix and I recognize I'll need something with power to pick up on subtleties in the sound, so if anyone could recommend something in the $100-200 range or just laugh at me because you can't get anything worthwhile at that price I'd appreciate it, thanks.