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Randy, Wow. Thanks for taking the time to explain all this. It both confirms that some of what I am doing is valid and also gives me a lot of good advice to make things better! For example, you get some very clean and bright sounding IO examples mixed very well (my first attempt was muddy and levels...

Randy. Thanks Again. If you don't mind, one more question. Lets say I have a final mix out of Cubase that is -7dB when I bring it into Waves. I bring this into Waves and scale it to 0dB in most cases? I've found that for some things -3, -2 or so sounds better to my ears. I normally scale to a level ...

Randy, My goal is to create the best music I can. The more I learn the better off I will be. Actually I used to bounce to audio now and then when I had a slower computer that could not keep up with the samples and plugins - and at some point anyone creating huge scores like I sometimes do will have ...

Randy,
Thank you so much for this lucid response! I do in fact use Wavelab after the fact, but I don't bounce tracks to audio - I need to start thinking about that and try your other suggestions as well.

Rich

I'm interested in people's thoughts about optimum mixing levels with 100% Garritan instrument pieces. I have all the libraries now and they differ markedly in the default volume settings when loading into the Aria player (though the Aria fader may be set the same for each). Some have to be adjusted ...

Hi Guys, Interesting discussion to me. There are a wealth of PC-based reverbs out there now besides Altiverb, which I frankly gave up on. Actually I always thought it put a little haze on the sound I never liked that much. Anyway, I use East West Quantum Leap Spaces convolution reverb now and am qui...