I'm working trying to mix a project now that contains the following,
piano, acc. guitar, live drums, keyboard strings, bass guitar, lead vocal. The piano, strings and vocal were cut in a pro studio using Vegas 6, The rest of the tracks were cut on a Tascam 2488 and imported to Vegas as 24bit .wav files. everything is lined up, I've done many edits to clean and tighten up tracks. now that I'm mixing
I'm finding that I can't seem to get what I call the big or pro mastering sound. The best way I can describe it is, I think of stereo audio as kind of 3 dimesional, we have the frequency range, the left right pan field and what I call for lack of a better term depth. What I mean buy depth is that my mixes seem to sound a little squashed or like the band is playing in a smaller room than the pro mixes I've had done. Even though all instruments are audible in my mixes there just seems to be better seperation between them when mastered in the pro studio. I'm using Vegas 6 without any other pluggins except for the lead vocal, the studio engineer gave me a dry lead vocal track and an effects vocal track for reverb because he said the Vegas reverbs pretty much suck,[ and he loves Vegas ].
I've used wave hammer on the master effects to even things out a bit
and increase the volume of the cd, but I just can't seem to get that pro, radio ready mix.[ at least to my liking ] any suggestions or 3rd party recomendations that won't break the bank that are proven and will help me get closer. I know the studio I go to has about every major pluggin you can imagine, A guy could go broke buying pluggins.
thanks,
Jeff
piano, acc. guitar, live drums, keyboard strings, bass guitar, lead vocal. The piano, strings and vocal were cut in a pro studio using Vegas 6, The rest of the tracks were cut on a Tascam 2488 and imported to Vegas as 24bit .wav files. everything is lined up, I've done many edits to clean and tighten up tracks. now that I'm mixing
I'm finding that I can't seem to get what I call the big or pro mastering sound. The best way I can describe it is, I think of stereo audio as kind of 3 dimesional, we have the frequency range, the left right pan field and what I call for lack of a better term depth. What I mean buy depth is that my mixes seem to sound a little squashed or like the band is playing in a smaller room than the pro mixes I've had done. Even though all instruments are audible in my mixes there just seems to be better seperation between them when mastered in the pro studio. I'm using Vegas 6 without any other pluggins except for the lead vocal, the studio engineer gave me a dry lead vocal track and an effects vocal track for reverb because he said the Vegas reverbs pretty much suck,[ and he loves Vegas ].
I've used wave hammer on the master effects to even things out a bit
and increase the volume of the cd, but I just can't seem to get that pro, radio ready mix.[ at least to my liking ] any suggestions or 3rd party recomendations that won't break the bank that are proven and will help me get closer. I know the studio I go to has about every major pluggin you can imagine, A guy could go broke buying pluggins.
thanks,
Jeff