Qustion bout mixing

Hi I been reading lot articles some books. im starteing get hang of this mixing thing. i just qustion though.

I'm useing tascam 2488 but not dat it matters.

The qustion i have is when i get done rec all my tracks into it. am i spose adjust the levles till everythng is jumping at 0db??

Before i start adding Eg reverb etc???

than mix it??

Appreciate it

I'd say use you ears and not your eyes. Yes, you'd want to get your tracks saturated well enough so that you're close to max on the headroom, but falling a little short of that won't hurt either.

Then you can start flavoring your stuff while you also do your eq'n then mixing.

Once that's done, you can start the process of mastering. But you'll need a decent program or two to make that happen.

ok now i get it.
Mixing is done with my ears
Meters is for monitoring to see if it cliping and nuff air space.

So when i rec into my tascam just make sure there nuff room to breath.
than use the faders get everythang at good level loud but not cliping
and eq compresion reverb will slowloy be added when needed.

I'm going guitar center sunday. I got book mixing and mastering by hal leonard
is there any books dat may help?? maybe by him??
Also im not doing vocals could i still mix song add vocals later??

^^^ You might want to check out Bob Katz, Bobby Owsinski, & Jeff Baust just to name a few.

ok

http://www.dubstepforum.com/this-thread ... 74832.html

this guy macc in a music engineer, he masters music. He knows his shit, this thread is gold.
You gotta mix your stuff with -6db headroom, never touch the master fader, and only lower individual levels. The master fader effects bit depth, so it's not good to use. When comparing to other songs, understand they are mastered, so your mix will be at much lower volumes then what you listen to on your mp3 player.

@moredecal1989
A book i found real interesting was mixing with your mind. Lots of helpful techniques from industry heads written in a funny way.

as far as doing vocals later? of course you can. if your crafting beats it's (in most cases [wait for the gunfire to start]) better to wait until you have a fully mixed track (or at least 90%) before you bring your vocalist in. Couple of reasons for this. Most vocalists like to have the full song in their ears so they can feel the vibe. I get a much better performance out of the vocalist the more full the track is, as they have more elements to sing to. Only the best vocalist (i find personally) are able to make magic happen with only a 808 and bassline (i'm talking singers not rappers here).
Also depending on your session, if your vocalist is also writing lyrics/melodies for your joint then it will be infinitely easier for them if the track is mostly mixed.

I'm not saying this is the law, just from my experience doing mixing and tracking for the last looooooong time, this is what i have found to produce the best results consistently.

good luck.

peace.

You right the head is best i mean sitting thinking bout it makes more sense

Well im vocalist song writer. well what i was thinking bout doing is mixing the beat keep track of what i did. so i can always go back mix vocal later
may have just sum things on my mix after ading vocals but hey music is art.

I'm useing tascam 2488 neo. mix master dat ok?

briskisgoodforu wrote:http://www.dubstepforum.com/this-thread ... 74832.html

link is messed up but i was able to find it...

http://www.dubstepforum.com/this-thread ... t74832.htm!

this really is a dope thread!
thanks for posting this up.

I can pull it up???

http://www.dubstepforum.com/this-thread ... t74832.htm