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Ight y'all question..... Before I start getting deeper into my mix..... I didn't compress nothing yet( not the drums or nothing yet)..... I did a before and after of my mix after I got done reading this book another fellow Redditor had advised me on and man.... I think it might of changed me a little....what do y'all think ... Honest opinions..... Harsh criticism is welcomed (heads up there are a few mess ups due to my plugin but that's fine)..... My next step in this is to attempt to make it have a 3d image (mixing) with my drums and melodies to give it more space...... Before my other mix... It sounded lifeless and you could tell I got frustrated...... But other than that thank you

I'm an intermediate mixer and I just got done reading a book recommended by another user.... In this book it wrote about vu .... -18db = Ovu..... Right.... So when I just I have one instrument playing and it's at -18db on my DB scale ... On my vu meter it showed relative to to 7 on the DB scale and around 40 to the vu metering.... Am I reading it wrong ????