Mixing your tracks?

Froglicka · Post by **Froglicka** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 11:28 pm

Do you mix your tracks in ableton or use logic/pro tools kinda thing?

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:49 am

ableton

rbmonosylabik · Post by **rbmonosylabik** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:55 am

timothyallan wrote:ableton

Froglicka · Post by **Froglicka** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:57 am

frequency cut off points etc can be set in ableton ??

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:19 am

have you used live yet? or is this a pre purchase question? I'd download the demo.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:24 am

all my songs have been produced in Live for the past three years. Live has an excellent EQ that you can use to cut off frequencies, either at the per-track or master level.

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:01 pm

for mixdowns i personally prefer logic, but sometimes i do all in ableton.

generally i use ableton more for live playing and sketching / jamming.

and logic for recording 'accoustic' material / vox and for [final] production.

Froglicka · Post by **Froglicka** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:16 pm

So to clarify, If i rendered each track on its own to .wav form, then import them into logic or pro tools (dependant on what i buy) i can mix them a lot easier in there?

elektrovert · Post by **elektrovert** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:20 pm

SubFunk wrote: generally i use ableton more for live playing and sketching / jamming.

and logic for recording 'accoustic' material / vox and for [final] production.

+1

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:24 pm

Froglicka wrote:So to clarify, If i rendered each track on its own to .wav form, then import them into logic or pro tools (dependant on what i buy) i can mix them a lot easier in there?

i don't think it will be any easier, it is just different.

and much about your personal workflow. i don't want to argue about any kind of 'quality' issues. that has been discussed here on the forum a trillion times.

put it that way, learn how to mix in general first...
and for that live does all you need, before you might look a 'step ahead'

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:36 pm

Depends on if I wrote the track in Live or in Logic.

TrierMusic · Post by **TrierMusic** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:32 pm

Froglicka wrote:So to clarify, If i rendered each track on its own to .wav form, then import them into logic or pro tools (dependant on what i buy) i can mix them a lot easier in there?

Well, easier is up to you - I had to mix a couple of tracks in a hurry yesterday so in Live I bounced them all to wav and then loaded them up in Acid, which I've been using for years.

However, Live's arrangement view in live is very similar to Acid (and i presume most other "left-to-right horizontal" recording programs), so I don't imagine it's that much different...?

swishniak · Post by **swishniak** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:07 am

Froglicka wrote:So to clarify, If i rendered each track on its own to .wav form, then import them into logic or pro tools (dependant on what i buy) i can mix them a lot easier in there?

yes. . sometimes i also do a "demo bounce" of rendering a session (with a mastering plug/rack) and check then "normalize" box in the render options. usually sounds pretty good. but i find logic/protools is much better for mixing.

the whole process would be alot easier if rewire could only pipe in multiple tracks of audio at the same time into Logic, like it seems it should be able to... but i still go through the multiple render method.

anyone have a better method?

minimal · Post by **minimal** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:35 am

I still mainly mix on my old large analogue desk

Davengeful · Post by **Davengeful** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:58 pm

For those of you mixing your tracks in a program other than Ableton, here's my big question - when rendering each track in ableton, do you:

1. Render them at the level you currently have them mixed at (some tracks more soft than others)

OR

2. Normalize each track, so that every instrument is maxed out in volume. The song in ableton would (possibly) sound like crap this way, because the song isn't really mixed, but it might help to have full-volume tracks when mixing in the other software.

How do you guys do it?