Help Wanted For Mixing Mess!

Hi folks!

I need that some of you pros help me to understand that about frecuecies, because when i mix i give more volume to my sax, of course, and everything else have a good level, but i allways hear that the background music sound like separate from the lead. In the professional recording i notice the lead are even louder, but they sound in a way as is everyone is a unit. Any clue on how to get that?

Thanks in advance for the class!

ORIGINAL: juanvarela

Any clue on how to get that?

Give me money. And the project file.
Easy as pie... (insert surly over-confident emoticon here)

compresion, any specific one. i have sonar 3 pe. sonitus is in the package. also i have an old version of waves.

I think you are recording the sax through a mic. If so that might be the reason.
Or else the way you mix your saxaphone is different from the way the professionals do.

May be a reverb might help.

Maybe there is a compression problem.

Any other way to record that is not through a mic. Let me know. Thanks

What Dimuthu_DeeJay obviously meant is
- type and quality of mic
- mic placement
- room acoustics
(- and don't forget the monitoring speakers!)

To get a professional mix you need to understand frequencies and loudness ralationships (for lack of a better word). And you must have a very thorough understanding how the different sound shaping and mixing tools work. There is no button or plugin to automate this long and involved process. You need to read a lot (and more) and experiment. Go back to reading. Use reference mixes and try to get close. Read some more. Try again. Restart at the beginning. Know and understand your toolset. You want to become as proficient with each spefic type of EQ and various compressors, reverbs and limiters etc. as with a hammer or screwdriver. It takes years to develop ears for mixing.

Alternative: Take your raw tracks to a professional.

Please, any data to help me out it is welcome.

Any material, web site, etc. and i am sure i will get it!

See my first response. I gave you pointers to 15 excellent links from handbooks on recording, EQ, mixing to cookbook approaches in the primer. etc. on my site. What more do you need/want??

ORIGINAL: LoopJunkie

Any other way to record that is not through a mic. Let me know. Thanks

What Dimuthu_DeeJay obviously meant is
- type and quality of mic
- mic placement
- room acoustics
(- and don't forget the monitoring speakers!)

Exactly loopjunky