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Yes i test on monitors with & without sub and average headphones but trained my ears to mix on the my cans now

Will do, i will stay away from Dance and give it the James Bond smokey bar vibe

Cheers craig, had an melody idea and started messing with drums for timing, then i picked up guitar and then my bass started looking at me. I think it could go dancy or maybe keep it chilled, when you not thinking it just happens

You are over complicating things, think more simple. 1) before you start, you need to realise you need approx. 6db of headroom for a pre master (master bus). whereby 2) start on the main instrument, me personally and most always start mixing from drum room, i use a drum room patch system to send to a Drum room bus. (more control for DB, EQ and Para Comp) So my drum bus hits -12 on my master bus (Master bus is my subtle mix bus for glue). Then i mix in bass bus, to instrument bus, to vocal bus, backing vocal bus, FX bus, verb and delay bus etc I sent my tracks top to bottom (Project mis template) depending on style of music i maybe take drums to -9 given EDM and POP or alternative you have a fight between vocals and everything else, less sidechaining, gating and duckling less problems. thereby 3) Obviously every time you add a bus to master (audio) you increase your master bus db and decrease your headroom. In the digital world gain staging is not a big deal, if you recorded something and its distorted, gain staging will not save you but a clean recording will. Keeping your headroom is the big deal. Reality why you should only send buses to the master and never send a track to the master. Automate your tracks, so you know what your track peaks are sending to bus. Send them to bus and send bus to master, do this one by one so you are aware what the bus peaks. Example Drum room bus like a said say peaks at -12 db and your bass bus might peak about the same depending on style but two buses at -12db will push your master bus up depending if you sidechaining bass and drums or using limiters etc which is why you would mix maybe top to bottom some sort of order so you can just solo or mute buses to tweak down the line with your mix and headroom. Most off us develop our own style, methods and workflow. Not many use patches, i find them useful, some people send a track to master i never do. You have loads of tracks and that all about organising your work flow with buses and maybe patch's that you can automate You should start on 8 track to become familiar with everything

Midnight_Show_MP3_1.mp3 Had a little mess tonight, i should do something with it....

Messing with OBS linked to Cakewalk on this track https://www.facebook.com/whoisp/videos/652777000311596

Yes i do like a good de-esser ive heard again Fabfilter Pro-DS and why something like RX 10 is a nice bag of tricks for de-esser and fret noise etc Sometimes i use the free versions of TDR Nova and T-De-Esser. I try to set my mics up so i don't get to much ess and there's a fine line with having lots of air and the essssss

i think my phone when crazy with auto correct, this is why i don't like automatic plugins lol

Cheers jack its getting there

Ive always thought about getting Scheps Omni channel strip for that reasons. Basically 5 modules for preamp color, EQ, de-essing, compression, gating and im could be black friday buy as i think waves are doping a one off purchase for it

PC76 U-Type Channel Compressor is also solid state like the SSL 4000, what you think the different is just the FET colouring with more options

Demo for a female singer, this is the before she does the vocals (hopefully a big vocal) This is the creative idea with my vocals to gives some ideas to the vocals. The vocals will be stripped and she will get it clean without hearing the vocals first, see what she does and then i will give her my vocals to see if it inspires something different for her. Builds up more in second half

I did try EQuality

The Cakewalk Next "new" DAW been under development for five years, which did create a bit of confusion with current CbB. Cakewalk by BandLab (CbB) aka that will go back to Cakewalk Sonar in reality is basically continued development of the existing platform CbB with enhancements yet to be disclosed in full that created some confusion. Talk about the interface and bundle plugins Permanent activation will be available once the two "new" DAWs are released and CbB depreciated with crossover period i assume. Reality, people will now have to pay for something that is free, so now Cakewalk Sonar is competing with with a stable Studio One and others on price etc , so i am guessing they are getting it solid before launch, given soon as you force subscription or yearly payments people tend to shop about for best deals etc

Same here, i used it back in the day when it first came out in dos to win95, we used it a university to illustrate midi signals and triggering for code. I left uni and Life got in the way of carrying on with cakewalk . Down the line i noticed Gibson made an absolute dog turd of it when they could have been king if they have foresight. I just hope they don't screw it up again....

To be fair, i never check my typing, even quantum physics probably easier to understand.

I was more of saying the best 4 you use, yes you could have your best 10 or 20 but if you only had to use 4 given you can create some of your own plugins with stock. The AlesHiltonA1 you mention, could use EQ and pan with two mono tracks 100% left and right with sending bass track down the middle to expand or limit your width, you can use EQ and Verb to them manipulate the mid side and tops to give the same illusion of width etc. We all have our own preference of mixing, what plugins we use and i think its important to understanding our mix and what we do with plugins that we can also do with stock to the same effect. Cakewalk Boost 11 is a peak limiter plug-in that can increase the loudness of your audio tracks without clipping or distorting them which you can control transience, good to control drum ceiling also good on mix bus. The ThrillseekerLA mkII is a nice little compressor you mention they do a good sat to, nice freeware.

Its subjective with what you get paid and if you get cuaght like Morvan and Pilatus that did not sing any of the vocals on their music, so Grammy award was revoked like Milli Vanilli lol

Sorry to hear, I got royal screwed in a divorce with business etc

Vital is good because its free haha, but its another hungry on the system, but the synths normally are, i know synthmaster its easy for my to stay with it as i mainly use it for FX but they all have the same functions really

I only got the Ozone 9 elements, at the time i could not justify the extra costs and clearly see the advantages, the same with Melodyne, i upgraded to 5 but not Editor, i don't really need the extra function which would be £250 on black Friday after checking. I use my own Boss hardware Multi FX for Guitar and same with vocals. I may dabble with the TH3 as i also record a dry second input. YEs, you are 100% Ozone is a hungry beast, i use it on my mix bus, vocals and mastering only, i may stick it on something if needed. Depending on what cakewalk does with CbB and how long it runs and how good the new one will be, i may have to change to Studio One, ive never used any other DAW less logic at uni years ago. I will after see what the new one like after its been stable for 6 months or something.

Interesting that quite a few use Melodyne and Ozone., i must be in good company lol

What is going on there, no CbB running?

Well your are another that mentioned Soothe, what does it offer you ?

Knowing what you know now, what 4 plugins (Not including stock) that you can't do without, your best 4 or what you use and why? I know i am personally missing some great plugins but we all haev a work flow and preference. I hear so much about things like Fabfilter Pro-Q and Soothe but my thinking int he beginning as a ex ITV sound and Video engineer, was EQ is EQ and you can get by with stock to get near the same results. Also i latter mention, one of my plugin in choices is Ozone due to its versatility. Serum gets mentioned a lot and Soundtoys Decapitator. Again, stock does well with SoftTube and Compressors, emulators you can create your own Decapitator and Serum at the time Serum was out of my budget as id already over spent... In my 4 i have i Melodyne for its multiuse purpose use of audio correction and midi capabilities. I also could not do without Addictive Drums, its so versatile for what i use it for. I only choose Synthmaster on cost and ease of use at the time of purchase, given you can get the same sounds out of most Synths. Lasty i use Ozone 9 which i don't just use for mastering but for extra Q on buses and vocal chain. So that's my simple 4 Melodyne, Addictive Drums, Synthmaster and Ozone 9 My wish list is maybe Fabfilter Pro-Q and something like RX 10 Any advice guys?