If anyone has the time...I've got the final mix done for my first seven songs recorded with Sonar! It has been 9 months of learning, starting with Music creator 6, then Sonar X1, and now X2. I recorded everything using different guitar gear, Bass settings and drum sets (all drums are EZ Drummer). This has made it interesting and time consuming to get a cohesive mix of seven, but it's as good as I can do. The final (individual masters) were done within the T-racksCS deluxe shell (thanks again clarry). Now I'll take the lessons learned and start some new projects. I want to thank everyone for their feedback and help, it's been much appreciated.
 
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Sanctuary: nice job... love that fat guitar tone.  Just curious..... what did you use on that?  I could almost feel the heat from the tubes from here.....  I thought the snare was just a few db too hot. 

Sounds like you learned the skills pretty nicely. 

Thanks! The guitar on Sanctuary is a Strat and a HD500 going direct. I believe it's the Park75 model. Trying to match levels on these songs were an education! The drums are different on everyone. I did lower these a bit on the last pass. They may be a bit loud still, but I've got to call it good and move on. Thanks for listening and thanks for your advice in the past. You helped me a lot when I had MC6.

Clint, I listened to the first five songs, and I'm impressed by the variety and sterling performances.  I look forward to hearing what you can do when you get in that comfort zone.  Bravo.

Thanks. Lynn. I know they are not perfect, but I'm happy with them. One thing I'm still having a hard time with is getting the levels equal. Indian Two Step has an average of -9.5 RMS compared to -12.1 for Struck by fascination, but the latter sounds a little louder to me. It's funny with all these tools (3 metering programs, Span, T-racks metering, and Toscanalyzer) I still have to use my ears!

I just listened to Sanctuary and I think it sounds terrific.  I'm not a guitar player, but that Pod HD500 sounds excellent in my estimation.  

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I listened to everything, and was very impressed... it's obvious you put a lot of time and effort in these productions... Excellent work so far... is that you singing..?

notnat- Thanks! Yes that's me singing. It's a little off, but I don't know how to use v-vocal yet. Thinking about melodyne.

jsaras- The HD500 pod is pretty sweet. "Indian Two Step" is Amplitube Fender. They both show a lot of promise...I hope to get better at all of this. Thanks for all of your comments.

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notnat- Thanks! Yes that's me singing. It's a little off, but I don't know how to use v-vocal yet. Thinking about melodyne.

Yes, I noticed a little vocal pitchiness... Melodyne is an excellent fix for that... I've used it with great sucess, but it has its bugs... I've learned to work around them...  

I used to have a Roland VS2400 and it had autotune. I used a slow chromatic pitch correction that usually did the trick. It's in those trailing notes at the end of words were I tend to go a bit flat. Chromatic didn't work at all for harmony however. I think Melodyne will be a future purchase.