Featured Equipment Of The Week - Samson G-Track USB Mic/interface

Samson G-Track USB Mic/interface
FINALLY A USB MIC THAT MAKES SENSE!

The G-Track is a total solution capable of taking you from your musical inspiration to your finished tracks. Samson's G-Track is the world's first USB condenser microphone with a built-in audio interface and mixer, allowing simultaneous input of vocals and guitar, bass, or keyboard while also providing monitoring through an on board headphone output.

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The G-Track allows you to record vocals like a standard USB mic, or two mono instruments through the line/instrument input, or a mix of one mono instrument and vocal. Now singer/songwriters can directly record vocals and instruments quickly and easily with one device, making the G-Track a must have for any songwriter's home studio. And its ease of use and portability allows you to take it anywhere inspiration may strike you.
Ideal for the traveling musician or the project studio, the G-Track ships with a desktop mic stand, swivel stand mount, USB cable and all the cables needed to connect any musical instrument with a standard 1/4" or RCA output. The G-Track ships with Cakewalk's Sonar LE and works brilliantly with Apple's GarageBand.


TOP FEATURES

• Large diaphragm studio condenser microphone
• Mic and Instrument/Line gain control with clip LED
• Stereo input jacks for instruments or line level signal
• Stereo headphone jack for no latency monitoring with level control
• 3-position headphone switch for stereo, mono, computer monitoring
• SuperCardioid pickup pattern
• USB bus-powered and compliant
• Audio I/O and USB cables included
• Desktop microphone stand included

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Six Essential Mixing Tips

Below I've compiled some of my favorite tips that have helped me over the years on the path of learn to mix. I swear by them and guarantee they will help your home studio productions.

1. For a less cluttered mix, use hipass and lowpass filters to better define the range of each instrument. The free BX_Cleansweep plugin will be your new best friend.
2. Automate everything. With the powerful automation functions available in your DAW there's no reason to set levels to be just "good enough" for the whole song. Fine tune balances for every section, phrase or syllable if you have to. Same goes for sends and effects.
3. Left, Right, or Center. Nearly every element of your song can be assigned to one of those 3 panning positions. Don't fret about finding the perfect pan position for every instrument, or try to make it completely lifelike. Anything other than hard left or right and center will translate differently on every system. You can save those in-between positions for a few select elements.
4. Take breaks to rest your ears and reset your perspective. Mixing is hard work, every couple hours you need to stop, relax and refresh your body. Interruptions and distractions don't count as breaks.
5. All edits completed first. Drum editing, vocal comping and tuning, pocketing bass to kick drum. Those things should be taken care of before the mix stage otherwise you will not be able to develop and maintain a creative flow for the mix.
6. Experiment. Skip the presets and what seemed to work last time. Take things to the extreme, make things distort, use guitar effects for vocals. Try out all your tools and see what makes them break. Just have fun with it. On your way you will find some unique sounds that can only be found by avoiding the presets.

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