HELP!!!!!!!!!

vlad, hi.
a few suggestions:
turn each song into a project and consolidate.
check with the studio to make sure their version of logic is same as yours.
make sure their mac is as powerful as yours.
take your logic install disk and dongle with you.
i'm presuming you have an external FW HDD.
if here are not a lot of third party VI's, i'd render all as 24bit audio files and save in the project folders.(use export track as....) if there are a lot, you'll have to allow time to render them and rebalance them. you're not leaving a lot of space/time for "murphy's law".
man, i don't envy you, what you're talking about will take a lot of time, and you haven't left yourself enough of it.
more details would be good, and there are plenty of wise men in this forum who can help you. just post more details.

btw, your girlfriend doesn't call you "the impaler" does she?

oh no.

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Hopefully you mean mix. Mastering usually assumes that you have already mixed down your music, in order to create some cohesion to the final product.

However, if the studio you are going to doesn't have the 3rd party gear that you are using, your main recourse seems to boil down to one of two choices: 1) bounce the individual tracks as audio 2) take your system down to the studio and wire it in. Alternatively, you could always hire a mixing engineer to do it on your system.

At this point, you may have wished it was a mastering session, since all you would really need are the finished mixes.

Good luck on your project. Hope you get some sleep tonight.

jord

hi vlad, you'll have to bypass any delay inducing plug on the master/tracks.
and make sure delay comp is set to all. this will reduce the problem.
and use export rather than bounce.
have a look at the anchor point on each file, these can be way off if you are using a sampler. some third party romplers(from sampleclip to sampleclip) are so off i can't use them.
at times i've had to cut the rendered audio very few beats to get the track to sit.
very time consuming - but worth it in the long run.
btw, if you're trying to mix out a whole cd in a day, i'd be taking along a whole heap of sedatives. don't take any yourself, but have 'em on hand for the studios' staff - they'll need them by the end.

don't overlook your ears - as in fatigue. for critical mixing, a three hour session is all i'd suggest. this is at the standard spl of 86db. any higher = less time.

can't you book in, in shorter sessions? might be more money but will be better for your music.

Hi Vlad

Not sure if it's the same thing, but I often record audio files from the MIDI playback when I'm using external devices and the difference/delay is purely down to latency. I've got a half decent set-up and it's really annoying the amount of latency I get in Logic when I follow all the manufacturer's recommended settings, which, oddly I don't get when I use Live 4 (really must upgrade to Live 5...).

All I do, once the audio has been captured, is move the audio track manually and align it with the midi track (using my ears and by zooming in, looking at the waveform and how it relates to the midi data). You may well find in any one song that the latency is the same for every track. So I've got in the habit of recording the audio from every device at the same time (so several tracks) and then moving them altogether the same amount, saves a bit of time, but to be honest it only takes a second to move each one anyway once you're used to it. Hope this helps!

RJ