Thanks Kara,

Just listened to your mix again and it sounds pretty good to me.

I’m a player rather than a producer so I tend to keep things quite simple.

I have my DAW set up pretty much as I would a live desk 16:8:2.
So that’s 16 input channels all with compression and EQ, 4 stereo auxiliary busses and one stereo master buss. I roll off the bottom ends of nearly everything on the input channels so bass below about 50htz, guitars, keyboards and vocals below say 80 -160 htz. I also level everything up here as well compressing where needed.

On the aux busses I leave one blank and use FerricTDS on two NastyDLA on three and EpicVerb on four. (These are freely available from http://varietyofsound.wordp...

FerricTDS, I set to modern tape and put nearly everything through it at about 40%. The vocals and sometimes the guitars go through the delay (NastyDLA) and the reverb, vocals usually at about 60% reverb and 50% delay.

Finally on the master channel I use in this order: -
1. A High Pass Filter to roll of any thing below 50htz.
2. Sheppi free spatial enhancer to give a little more width.
http://dallashodgson.info/a...
3. A multiband Graphic equaliser to tweak the overall mix.
4. GranComp3 which is a 3 band compressor limiter.
http://www.vst4free.com/fre...

I use a small pair of monitors (3” drivers’) for mixing, a larger set of near-fields (6” drivers) for checking (and some bass response) and a pair of cheap multimedia headphones. I usually check what it sounds like in mono and with the left and right channels reversed as well.

If you take care of the source it makes everything else a lot easier.

Umm… wow… I’m looking forward to trying out your tricks. Some mirror what I do, but you’ve given me many things to try and excellent detail (plus some great plugins!). I’m really grateful… thanks so much for taking the time to write this out.

You’re more than welcome Kara,

Thanks a lot for all these useful advices! I’m trying to apply this precious wisdom in my humble mixes :))

Your mixes always sound good anyway but I hope it’s of some use.

Thanks VickyDan,

Thanks Ciggi,

Thanks Admiral Bob,

Thanks Doxent,

Thanks Greg,

I suppose it’s just giving every track a bit of space to shine through.

Thanks Shelflife,

We’ve always wanted more tracks; truth is when I finally got a 16 track tape machine I never used them all.

Thanks murat ,