READ YOUR ENTIRE MANUAL AND MASTER YOUR DAW.

This is so important. Read, read, reread, and even memorize what every single little aspect of your DAW is for and what it does. If you have a creative spark the last thing you want is to be wondering "shit I'm not sure how to do this".
Plus it helps you realize you're true limits.

More than anything professional music is the work of masterminds. I don't think its that they have 5 billion years of experience, they know what sounds go together, what sounds don't, what sound is too much, and what sound is too little.

People say its "sound engineering" but I say pro's more or less just have a creative part of their brain reserved for music that most people don't have.

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Originally posted by Theran In addition to the above post, it's better to cut only on a EQ. Getting more out of the sound than it really is (raising EQ) is not good and can lead to unwanted sounds. If i.e. the clarity of the sound isn't good enough, don't boost the EQ but look into the sound itself, try to change it at the source (in The Netherlands we have a saying which applies here: "It's better to prevent than to cure"). EQ is also usefull to prevent phase cancellations. If i.e. two sounds are in the same frequency range, it's possible that on sound phases out the other. EQ is pretty hard to do. You are fastly inclined to overuse EQ. But remember this as a fistrule; if you have to EQ to much, the problem lays in the original sound.

If you have good eq boost by all means, but do your cuts first and see where the problems lie. Eq's like UAD pultec can have huge boosts and sound great. Shit eq's make loads of unwanted noise

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Processing a highly structured and complex pattern of sensory input as a unified percept of "music" is probably one of the most elaborate features of the human brain.....understanding how music is perceived and how it may elicit intense sensations is far from being understood.

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Originally posted by Sonic_c bass panning? sounds dangerous to me!

There's a track on Rabbit In the Moon's Decades CD that has the Bass panned LR - I forget which one but it sounds fucking great.