After laughing at the lack of space depth dimension and girth from all in computer virtual mixing in a DAW, my partner and I bought a Neotek Elite. We decided that there were some things that we didn't dig on it, and it wasn't in the condition promised and needed a good amount of work.

When I play in position 1 on my guitar, voice and guitar occupy a lot of the same frequencies.

With just voice and guitar in the mix, what would you be doing with the EQ? I'm okay EQing the tracks individually, but I'm wondering about them together. Do guitar and voice typically fight each other frequency-wise? What to listen for?

Is there a sonic difference mixing to CDR/W as opposed to CDR? I like the idea of being able to fix false starts or start/stop times, or making alternate mixes then copy from CDR/W to CDR as a final mix.Would this be an acceptable way to do it, or would I be better off going directly to CDR?
Thanks in advance,
Luke

Does anyone have experience with Carvin mixing consoles? A band I work with is looking into a new board and it seems Carvin offers some very nice boards for several hundred $$ less than Mackies / Soundcraft / Alesis etc...

So are you saving money because you are buying direct or is the quality less than ideal? Anyone here know?

Thanks!

zip >>

On a really basic level, I'm grappling with the
dynamic differences between foreground tracks and
background tracks. Looking at today's releases, it
seems as though background elements are way up in
volume. So you have a vocal track that finishes
it's phrase and then immediately the following
non-vocal section is also way up there in volume.

Voice and guitar in the mix, one track each, nothing more. Is it typical to pan them at all, is there any advantage to this? Or is it more usual to run 'em both down the middle?

I know this question has come up before, but I was curious as to what format everbody is mixing to, and why. Thanks.

Once again, this is a re-post of a re-post of an article I wrote sometime ago. This one has never been altered, it is exactly the same as it was the day I wrote it (in less than 2 minutes), and has stood the test of time.

I have gotten good response to this, and now that I have a forum for these things, I thought I'd put it up.

Now the 10 Steps:

Let's talk about mastering..
What software do you use?
What's the "mastering" chain you prefer?

I will ilustrate something with a example. When you play a pro track in some spectrum analyzer you notice that all the frequencies "jump" simoultanously when they hit..
How this can be achieved?

I'm sure this is not a new question, and I've asked it once myself over in the MOTU forum, but didn't get answers that quenched my thirst...so I'll ask it again here.

What are people's opinions about the best way to mix tracks recorded to a host-based DAW? Do you prefer to mix in software or use a console? If the latter, do you prefer a digital or an analog console?