Oh Baby, by Liza Colby band, my mix for the gearfest puremix contest. This was a fun project since I do not get a chance to work on female vocals. Nice job on the recording, and performance; the song was not bad set at all 0's. 
 First I loaded the tracks in to N-Track. I wanted to stay as true to the vibe and recorded sounds as much as I could but still let my style come through. I tried to remember to not "produce" the song. After I positioned the tracks in the stereo field (split oh and moved them out slightly, cloned the guitar track into 3 tracks, doubled the vocals, as well as positioning the kick, snare and both bass tracks)I started to process each instrument. I only have plugins and most are free ones, wish I could play with the big boy toys but one must work with what they have. Kick went through Boot EQ and Modern Deep Purple; Snare went the Endorphin; after I split the OHs I sent them to a group channel and feed that through Modern Channel and then Modern Flashverb; the bass DI (I used for some highs) went through N-Ttrack graphic EQ and then Nasty Tabletop; the bass amp (I used for depth) went to Trio EQ and then Modern Exciter; the "3 guitar tracks" two were spred left and right then sent to a group running through TAL TiltEQ and Tesla SE, the third i left in the center and ran it through Ambience and then FA3_full; the main vox went to Modern Vacum and then through Modern Lost Angel; the second vocal track was ran through T-Sledge and then Wide. I then routed the "band" to an AUX channel leaving the vocals only on the main and put a Modern Spacer on it in the hopes to give each track more room in the mix. I then drew volume envelopes to enahance the experiance for the listener. Lastly I ran the master channel through Modern VRME. I used a pair of M-Audio BX8a and Sony MDR-7506 throughout mixing as well as my truck (I think it was Sammy Hagar who said something to the fact that the song isn't right till it sounds good going down the highway). I ran into alot of issues with my DAW (N-Track)on this one, I recently ugraded the program and it was acting very strange. I could not put plugins on some of the tracks, like the bass amp. I had to send it to a group, then it would allow me to run the track through what ever plugin I wanted, the same thing happened with the main vox track. I am used to running the graphic eq that is on the channel but this version the eq buttons were blank and I could not add "points" on the eq. So I had to step out of my norm and use plugin EQs. For once I was able to run all the tracks with their respective plugins running at the same time with out one of them crashing, I hate having to mix down a processed track in case I feel it needs to be changed later, but the DAW would not allow me to put the spacer on an AUX channel. So I did in deed have to mix down each track before I could send it to the Spacer, but this lead me to another issue. Every time I tried to mix down a track my DAW would freeze, and then freeze my computer (windows 7, intel i7, 8GB ram). I was frustrated so I opened up the song file in an older version of N and I was able to mix down individual tracks. Now the problem was that I could not do all the tracks since the older version did not find all the plugins. So I did the tracks I could and brought them into the orginal file on the newest version. Still not luck, until I did some more testing and found that if I manually muted the tracks I did not want (instead of picking which tracks to mix in the "mix down menu" I was able to complete the proccess. I hope it is enjoyable to the listener and would appreciate any feedback. 

LowB