ORIGINAL: SteveStrummerUK

+1 for sticky
+1 for sticky in every Cakewalk forum

+11111 For Sticky in every forum, Cakewalk or otherwise. EVERY music recording forum on the web should have that post front and center!

Thank You!

Dean,

as a complete noob I would like to say THANK YOU SO MUCH! This explanation was clear and concise and is probably the most helpful thing I've found. Just from this one post I know so much more than I did before that it is hard to explain how much it helped me. This is exactly the sort of help I need to be able to use all the powerful tools that I got when I bought Sonar, or at least to understand the vary basics of what they do. This was absolutely invaluable!

Dave

What no Sticky yet??? Whats up with that!

he 'Mixing Spaces'

When you are mixing your song, the goal is obviously of course to have all the various tracks combine in some complementary way. You do this by placing each track somewhere in a number of spaces. These spaces are listed here along with the tools you use....

My 14 year old son inherited the bug to compose and plays guitar quite well (at least for his age). He asked me to record one of his new ideas the other day...I thought...yeah sure, it will be a good scratch project for me to get to know S7 ( I've been doing video production only since S2 and have a lot of refreshing/learning ahead of me) and it'll be fun for him to hear his idea with drums, bass, etc.
We recorded the first track (Death Metal kinda stuff) and then the second track. The two sounded okay by themselves but turned into noise together (due to both tracks having guitar with LOTS of distortion, both playing at same LOW frequencies, and similar rhythm).
I tried to explain this to him but not very well I think.
That said, I think the section on Mixing Spaces will not only explain to him what I was trying to tell him but also help me to separate the tracks better (would love to hear tips from anyone with Death Metal mixing experience).

Thank you very much for your efforts Dean,
Randy

Bump from the bottom of Page 2

Yeh, there's definitely some wierd history going on there. For instance, it's not the Dangerous 2 Bus, it's the Dangerous 2 Buss. And discussions about analog consoles tend to talk about the 2 Buss or aux busses. Maybe they were using it in the kissing sense, i.e. connecting two things like in a kiss, instead of the signal carrying sense. I dunno. If you search Goole with 'mixing buss', you'll get 117,000 hits under that spelling. But 'mixing bus' gets like 685K hits. And buss is often used when discussing PCI or PCIe as well.

So I guess it's just one of those things where both usages are active and you can pick your own. I guess I'll start using 'bus' from here on out, since it seems to be the more formally accepted usage, and just take my chances.

We're not going to get a sticky, are we?

ORIGINAL: Desperate Dan

Classy write up. Superb.

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C.

Proverbs 3:5

Musicmaker Dont you want to edit your Message and take the whole quote out?, it's a great article but a waste of space if people Quote the Whole thing again and then add one line like "Classy Message" on to it. Makes scrolling a PITA

Sorry Dan. My earlier post is now edited. I see your point it was a lengthy quote

Awesome indeed!

Brilliant - thanks Dean!

ORIGINAL: SteveStrummerUK

Thanks you Cakewalk guys - I'm impressed with what you've done here.

Can I go cap in hand and ask for this to be made a sticky in the Guitar Tracks forum?

Dean's already been generous enough to let me start a thread with his original post over there - it obviously won't need bumping as often as in here, but I believe that, given the comprehensive amount of topics Dean covers, and the sheer amount of relevant information it has for new [and old!] members, it deserves it's rightful place at the top of the GT forum.

Thanks in advance for considering my request

Steve




Edit - tpyo

Just to let you guys know - Cakewalk have stickied Dean's thread for us in the GT forum tonight.

Thanks Cakewalk and thanks again Dean!!

Top banana all round

Steve

thanks for posting this, i learned alot! I always wondered why my recordings sounded like crap.

I recently purchased SONAR 7 pro. I upgraded from SONAR 4 home studio and need help loading S7. I have a TASCAM audio/midi Interface and I am running windows XP essential. Everything I load as far as drivers and other software does fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Karl

THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO PUT THIS ALL DOWN, THIS FORUM CONTINUES TO BE A WEALTH OF INFORMATION TO SOMEONE NEW TO THE DAW PLATFORM.
CHEERS DRODDEY!!!

Fantastic post mate, thanks very much for that. Having just started out with DAWs and Sonar, this is a big help and saves me asking some embarrassingly simple questions ;)

Jud