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What’s up to all!~ Well I finally got the energy to do my pc cleaning… I opened up the panels and dusted parts and fans. I am pretty sure I’ll do a repair of windows soon or install a new hard drive…Just thought I’d mention that so you can remember to keep your power supply cool and fans flowing freely..

Yesterday I had a lonnnggg session at Streetlegal Studios. Mark Carey is engineering a project that was recorded partially in my lab. I always learn from watching him mix. He tried to explain how I can use “busses” in Reaper. WHOA…I have avoided this for a while now….I really know nothing about this. Mark opened my eyes on how this can help with cpu issues and save time when mixing.

While I continue to clean the studio, this is a good time to watch some videos about using audio buss inserts… If anyone wants to add to this, hit me through the contact page. I am open for guest post or link exchange…… now let’s get to some tech stuff

The videos I found are for protools, but I am sure we can get the basic concept of bus/sends.

Expert Village Add Aux Bus In Protools

EditorsKeys Aux Track In Protools

This one is great!~
Mic1One Auxiallary Tracks and Bussing
Mic1one on youtube

Happy Beat Making to All
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Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all have a studio full of Genelec Monitors like this :

Town House Studios- London Featuring Genelec Monitoring system. Picture courteous www.studioconnections.com.au

Well since I don’t ..lol, I have to make the best use of what I have. When I began producing I started with 49.00 $ pc speakers from staples. I would make beats that sound great in my lab, but in the car? I could hear all types of muffled kicks, and instruments that were too loud. On my path to a perfect mix, I learned that I need to “hear” differences in the frequencies of the sounds I use. I also realized my low budget Pc monitors just wouldn’t give an accurate response to certain frequency ranges.

After visiting several forums, I began to gather more knowledge about monitoring sound. I had no idea years ago how important studio monitors and headphones were. I finally invested in some Sony Mdr 7506 headphones, and I noticed a difference right away. The mix got a little better, but there were things that still needed fixing. I still use the Sony headphones but not for the main mix.

I am sure you have heard producers and engineers say “Don’t mix entirely through headphones”. I must agree with them. I had to learn the hard way, I continued to mix with my Mdrs, and I continued to wonder why does my kick sound crappy. One reason is, many companies make headphones for “enhanced” listening which usually results in a false representation of mid range/highs and lows. That means my kicks (low), and Snares/percs etc.(mid range/highs), were all sounding good but not accurate.
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Happy Friday to you. I’ll be on for live help a little later, I have a producer coming through for a 4 hour production session…so hit me up between 11:30 and 3:30 est. The next time I’ll be available is Tues. 9-16-08

This time last year I bought this mixer for my hardware. It’s a nice mixer but too pricey in my opinion, and I don’t like the way the Mpc kicks sound from it. I was going to sell it until engineer Mark Carey told me to dive into to the manual first. I did, and I’m getting better results because I took time to read and learn.

Here I am at one of the most important parts of music production,” The Mix”….sends chills just thinking about it huh . Ask any few engineers and they will all give different ways to go about mixing a song. Google it and you could spend months reading articles from the results. There are no set techniques. As we mentioned with music theory, there are some basic principles that apply to almost every genre of music when mixing. Once you begin learning the basics, and practice, it get’s easier.

I’m growing more fond of engineering, well at least the mixing aspect. I’ve been getting help from great engineers in my area, and will interview them starting next month. There is a lot to cover on the subject. I will post as I find different things, as I mix, and as engineers give me advise. This is the introduction to “Ms.Tris Mixing 101″. We’ll get to our awesome mixes together, remember I am learning with you….
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