Cubase

[3V17C]

well...i'm finally getting back into doing a bit of home recording and fired up cubase for the first time in ages the other day. it didn't all come flooding back, more of a trickle, but i did get done what i wanted to. just wondering though if theres any good books, forums, websites, resources that i should know about, particularly regarding EQing and mixing to get that 'full' polished kinda sound rather than slightly weedy home studio sound....


thanks in advance

c

[mistahbenn]

Join audionews.ru there is everything you ever need there. They oly take new members at the start of the month though.

google videos has stuff too...

[cheddatom]

[quote name='3V17C' post='199574' date='May 15 2008, 01:47 PM']well...i'm finally getting back into doing a bit of home recording and fired up cubase for the first time in ages the other day. it didn't all come flooding back, more of a trickle, but i did get done what i wanted to. just wondering though if theres any good books, forums, websites, resources that i should know about, particularly regarding EQing and mixing to get that 'full' polished kinda sound rather than slightly weedy home studio sound....


thanks in advance

c[/quote]

sound on sound has good tips. The best thing IMHO is to just play around and listen. You should get a good selection of plug-ins to play with. That "polished" sound often comes in the mastering stage - are you happy with your mixes but they just don't stand up to other CDs?

Get some raw data, upload it and post in the "free track mixing" thread in off topic. Then we (or just me :-/ ) can mess with it, and when you like what we've done, can explain it all to you!

[lowdown]

Here are some free plugins..
A real must...
And very useful..
Enjoy
[url="http://www.theinternetnowinhandybookform.com/schmapple/dreamonpro.html"]http://www.theinternetnowinhandybookform.c...dreamonpro.html[/url]

Garry

[Mottlefeeder]

[url="http://www.cubase.net"]http://www.cubase.net[/url] is the official forum
[url="http://www.cubase.com"]http://www.cubase.com[/url] is an independent forum

[thinman]

Decent compressor plugins add so much to either group mixes or mastering. It was while back now but I bought a PSP (Polish Sound Processors) "mix-pack" which included really good analogue compressor emulations and a "tape saturator". I was still using Cubase 5.1 and the built-in compressors used to induce delay which put the track sync out making then almost unusable.
The PSP compressor is great though.

[3V17C]

[quote name='lowdown' post='199763' date='May 15 2008, 05:15 PM']Here are some free plugins..
A real must...
And very useful..
Enjoy
[url="http://www.theinternetnowinhandybookform.com/schmapple/dreamonpro.html"]http://www.theinternetnowinhandybookform.c...dreamonpro.html[/url]

Garry[/quote]

haha..only just looked at that... s'funny coz its true!!!!!

peace

c

[Biggsy]

[quote name='Mottlefeeder' post='199793' date='May 15 2008, 06:03 PM'][url="http://www.cubase.net"]http://www.cubase.net[/url] is the official forum[/quote]

Really good resource although whatever you do, don't ask a question on there. Not unless you want to be jumped on by 50 people explaining how the search facility works.

Edit: Useful input: There are some great video tutorials on youtube; I much prefer seeing what's going on on screen, makes it easier to follow when they use words I don't understand. Which is a lot.

Edited May 22, 2008 by Biggsy