To fire it off, a few notes, musings and gentle guidances -
- don't buy tons of crap. dont think you need 80275456 pieces of hardware to write a damn song - spend a little on your computer, spend half that much on a studio amp and spend twice that much on monitors -learn where your monitor low end drops out and subsonic filter around that point so you dont mix tons of inaudible garbage bass up -learn what a spectrum analyzer, low pass and high pass plugins are. use these twice as much as any reverb or delay -sound's energy is inversely proportional to its frequency. as you use more and more low end, it sucks up your available dynamic range much more than using high end. BE CAREFUL WITH BASS. -everything below about 200 hz needs to be mono or have no appreciable phase differences, otherwise you end up writing NIN's _Broken_ -one possible mixdown method - after composition is done, bring all level faders down and bring one up to its loudest point. mix the rest of the track off of that. NOW do that with each track, starting over each time. a/b/c/d compare them and see which one has the punch and elements you want.
