Bumped.

I bought it about 6 months ago and never watched it. Doh! I know what I'll be doing tonight. Groove3.com's mixing in Sonar taught me a good bit, so I hope this one will extend my mixing skills as well.

bandso
I bought it about 6 months ago and never watched it. Doh! I know what I'll be doing tonight. Groove3.com's mixing in Sonar taught me a good bit, so I hope this one will extend my mixing skills as well.

I've watched an insane amount of vids on Sonar and how work with it and although that was all great for navigating the program and included a few insights to some of the effects nothing compares to this one. It's not about mixing per se but considering the things some of these effects do I don't anyone but highly educated/experienced pros couldn't make their projects sound better with this info.
 
Seriously trying to sort through what should be used where and how to actually use them accurately was driving me BONKERS. An enormous amount of my notes are me trying to write down specific info on settings the tuts describe because they don't actually explain what the controls are doing. They just say "Set this to this and that to that" and move on. I can pretty much toss all that out the door now because I can make informed decisions that suit my material/needs.
 
The one thing that still bends my brain is the VC-64. Not because Karl doesn't describe it well, he explains every single option on that damned thing, but because it is just ridiculously complex. Now though I realize that the most important part of that entire effect is the routing section. It seems so innocent and inconsequential sitting down there in the corner looking like it doesn't do anything but it's like the heart of the beast. No wonder I couldn't get the darned thing to do what I want. lol
 
Also I was kind of upset that I didn't have access to the new fancy Tape Sim because I'm too cheap/broke to upgrade to X3 but after watching him showcase the old VST tape sim I think that's going to be just fine. In the same vein some of the innocuous mastering things that I had no idea about like the Phase effect (not Phaser but the one that simply checks and fixes phase issues) or the Tube Leveler (which I could never get to work right) or any number of tools I had no idea were for mastering should get my final "masters" a hell of a lot better sounding than they've been so far.
 
All I was doing before was a bit of EQing because... well that's all I knew how to do... and even then I was doing it wrong. lol
 
Sorry, just can't say enough about how useful this vid has been. Cheers.

+1 to this video. Now I can mess with the effect with more confidence. Thanks Karl.

 
Thanks musichoo, much appreciated.
 

Excellent video for sure, and what is more is that Karl is often around to answer other questions too!! Karl knows his stuff!

 
Thanks mettelus, I'm here to ask as well as learn though. This forum is Cakewalk's ace up the sleeve.
 
 

At the Beepster's recommendation,  I've purchased "SONAR X2 Advanced Workshop: Producer Effects - Video Tutorial".  I cannot complain for $8.00 and we'll see if it helps me sift through the various effects. 
 
I've also added "SWA Complete SONAR X2" as it's been quite a few years since I've had a current version of a Cakewalk product, however I'm not sure if "SWA Complete SONAR X2" really puts it together any better than the free media on Cake TV and such.
 
The total cost for both is $27.94, that's very cheap for good educational material, so at worst I may glean some few insights not otherwise easily available, and at best it will be an ongoing useful source of information not easily available on Cake TV and such.
 
Long live the Beepster.

 
Thanks for the support Chumer, I hope you get some useful info from them.
 

I just realized I made a mistake earlier. This is a 5 hour vid. Not a 2 hour vid. Sorry about that. It's all quality though.

 
Thanks again Beepster, people will be thinking you're my agent soon.
 

I bought it about 6 months ago and never watched it. Doh! I know what I'll be doing tonight. Groove3.com's mixing in Sonar taught me a good bit, so I hope this one will extend my mixing skills as well.
 

 
Thanks bandso, it's a video though it won't go out of date, or not too soon anyway.
 

I still have X1. (waiting for a new computer for x2 or 3..might be a while) Will there be a lot of irrelevant info for me?

X1 Producer Expanded and X2 Producer have the same plug-ins except
Guitar Rig LE was replaced with TH2 Producer
BREVERB 2 Cakewalk added to X2

Thanks Skook, just bought it then.

Forgot that R-Mix was new with X2 Producer, so don't go looking for that in X1 either.