saltmcgault wrote:yea just whipped it up and recorded in to ableton live lite9 i think the only thing i tracked out separately was the bassline. i listen to my **** on my monitors pretty loud. i try to get it to sound some what decent then just posts away on soundcloud. When this mixer finally arrives (its probably on a cargo ship from china right now) im going to try to get my gain reset and go from there. yea if i ever come out with an instrumental which i do one of these days i'll hit you up. i don't think any of my stuff is worth putting on a CD. soundcloud is good enough for now. lol
Before you start mixing, listen to other music (Reference Track) that you really think was mixed well on your monitor, at a comfortable levels. This will give your ears/brain and idea on what your music should sound like coming out your speakers.
It will also help teach you what your room sounds like. Once you start mixing, KEEP IT SIMPLE. Don't add any compression, eq or effects until you get a nice balance mix at comfortable level. After that take a 15 min ear break, then come back to the mix and listen at a lower volume level. (This will help you hear what is sticking out to much, or what is not there, also no EAR FATIGUE.)
Once you fix things at the lower volume, take a ear break again. Then return a listen to your mix all the way though, at a normal comfortable level. Don't adjust anything, just listen and take notes. After it finishes, adjust the mix based off your notes.
Once you have a good sounding mix that you like. Next showily begin to add eq and effects to things that need it. Do the same process as you did on the dry mix. Hopes this can help your process.
Hell yeah rather have the plugin. It cost $49 and l probably can get it cheaper. 
