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[quote="the_antagonist"]ableton is really a glorifed excel document.
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so many people say that when they first take a look at live.......

kb420 wrote:That was soo important that you had to post the same thread 8 times?


Are you postal?????

8 for Live 8 ?

Curiously I've found mixing is pretty automatic now that I mix harmonically. Preparation takes aaages though, but once that's down its very very simple. Harmonic mixing is a no brainer, so to get a good mix all you need to know is if the song would roughly fit the dancefloor, and the rest is a simp...

Dean Eager wrote:

Da hand wrote: Mixing when DJing is all about balancing RMS levels.

There's a lot more to DJing than that!

This statement was in the context of volume levels, as that is what the topic of this thread is about. Obviously there is more to DJing than volume levels.

Put it on the settings you normally listen to. That way you already have a good idea of what all other music sounds like on these settings - so it will give you a good comparison to your own music.

this is true IF all of your songs have been mastered, and to broadly the same RMS level. If you are using a mixture of signed, unsigned, pro artists and amateurs, the mix levels could vary widely. Some mastering engineers also slam it harder and care less about dynamics than others. So it is up to ...

My label is a registered company - meaning that I registered its name and operation/existence with the government. The $30 (actually, it is tax deductible) is the fee per year to maintain that company registration. If you go corporate, that fee will be much higher. I do my own taxes with the same s...

So you guys that use CDBaby, did you just send them homemade CD-Rs or did you have some professionally duplicated somewhere? My label costs me about $120 / year to maintain (about $30 for name registration fees, $70 for a server and $20 for domain name). The rest is a direct cost of what you intend...

My label is a registered company - meaning that I registered its name and operation/existence with the government. The $30 (actually, it is tax deductible) is the fee per year to maintain that company registration. If you go corporate, that fee will be much higher. I do my own taxes with the same so...

So you guys that use CDBaby, did you just send them homemade CD-Rs or did you have some professionally duplicated somewhere? Some download sites don't like to deal with artists directly anymore and some not even with labels - as they want things to go through the aggregators. Setting up a label is ...

Collect and Save All copies the flies to the project folder where your .als file is located. It doesn't save the files into the .als file - it is not like MS Word which can save pictures with the text in the Word .doc. In order to save all your audio when moving things around, you have to move your ...

I personally would steer clear of compressing tracks that are probably sounding pretty awesome to begin with. just adjust the levels of each one so they match each other somewhat and roll with it. I would put a limiter on the master, but I would actually try to make sure I wasn't even touching ceil...

Apogee seems to have a pretty tight relationship with Apple. I'm not sure to what extent, but there was a while there where it seemed like Apple was going to scoop them up. The Ensemble was the first very Apple looking thing they put out. The Duet feels exactly like a MacBook Pro to me. I'm a happy...

aqua_tek wrote:
This should inspire some interesting new Mac vs. PC bitch fits.

Over Apogee? I forgot they even existed.

If you know the arrangement and session views well, then when writing music, there isn't really any advantage of starting with session view over starting in arrangement view. You can sketch out ideas just as fast and in a non-linear way in the arrangement view, with the added bonus of having an extr...