| Well, there are a couple of factors that come into play when doing a mix.
Sound
1: It's your music, make it sound like you want to.
2: When EQing one instument, always do so while listening to the total sound. Don't over do it, just slightly correct the sound to compensate for other instuments being in the same frequency range.
3: Try to add a LITTLE reverb to the vocals and maybe drums.
4: Listen to other CD/MD's, on the same speakers you are going to mix on so you know the speakers sound.
5: Try out your mix on various other amps/speakers. Unless you have expensive professional studio monitors what you hear is NOT what you get. What sounds good on one set of speakers might sound horrible on the next.
6: Keep a balanced sound. You should be able to distinguis (sp) all the separate instruments in the final mix.
Panning, start here and work until it sounds ok.
Left -5..-3..0..3..5 Right
Drums L : -5
Drums R : +5
Vocal Lead : 0
Vocal backing 1 : -3
Vocal backing 2 : +3
Bass : 0
Git : -2
Keys : +2
It's cool for a g**t*r riff to be doubled, slighty delayed and then panned hard left and hard right. Just experiment.
Oh yeah, one more thing....
MD is a lossy medium. Meaning that you will lose some sound quality when doing a mixdown on MD. (Even with an optical cable, the MD just can't store all the bits it gets from the BR8)
Maybe you should consider mixing down on a CD-R. I hope someone has more advice on this. I just mixdown on my harddisk, and then burn a CD.
Sorry for rambling. I hope this will get you started, the rest is up to you.
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