Hello everyone, well here at the end of the week I set off to record my first Album.

Hopefully I've got most of my methods figured out so far, the only thing that I've been unsure about is mixing and recording for stereo.

Ok, so basically I'll be recording a three piece singer/songwritter, acoustic, vocals, drums, electric bass, maybe a lead guitar overdub track.

I just wanted to know what kind of portable audio player that you guys use to mix with. (you guys meaning professionals) - I am wondering what works well..I am in the market for one so please leave model numbers if possible. thanks for the help.

I have been recording music for many years, starting with basic analog 4 track cassette based machines - progressing on through various other platforms until recently converting to an all-in-one DAW system (Mac G5 Logic Pro).

I'm looking to develop some sound techniques for setting relative levels within my mixes. I'm constantly looking at my master fader to make sure it's not clipping and I think this is due to poor practise in setting initial levels.

I have been messing around with this cool spatial audio mixer called Audio Dementia(http://www.audiodementia.com). This audio software is nothing like I have seen before. When you mix music all you have to do is move around icons on the screen and the music is mixed to where you place the icon.

I just bought an Audiofire12 unit and it comes with the Tracktion software that is supposed to work with the Audiofire mixing console. I have managed to set up the output in the Tracktion software so the levels are showing on the Output 1-2-buses, but the 12 individual tracks are not coming over from Tracktion into individual tracks in the mixing console.

Help?

Is this OK for recording and/or mixing? Wooden floors with bass traps in the corner and Auralex acoustic foam on some walls?

Thanks for any information.

I have been using nuendo and Cubase now for quite some while and decided yesterday to install my Pro Tools/mbox rig i got for christmas last year. Now my computer freezes everytime that i try to start nuendo or cubase. They both seem to freeze at the point where they are loading the asio drivers. And i was wondering what i could do to ?

I want to keep things simple - probably one of the reasons I play acoustic (guitar and mandolin). I want to be able to have a Fostex-like device that will allow me to experiment musically at home and accompany myself on one instrument, while I am playing back another previously laid down track. Simple enough.

One thing that I've notice when I transfer my mix to my more intimate environment is that it begins to muff and give more mids especially around 180 - 380Hz. I'm at the moment working on turning this more intimate environment into my mixing studio (dont have the money yet) but for now, I have to do all my mixes on a second floor loft. At the moment, I have 4 Near feild monitors.