HI,

wicked. cheers mate. appreciate your comments!!

I've had the discussion regarding Reason with soooo may people now. It's actually jsut as good as Cubase and Logic IMHO. I have all threee here on my PC and use Reason through choice for various reasons. It's way easier to use. not a fan of the whole environment thing in Logic etc and just find the sequenzing harder. i spend about 12 hours writing the track then a week (on and off) EQing and mastering it. i got some 300 Jamo Gale force 35's for doinbg my mixdowns on, which does help i think.

I've only ever used Reason though in the 3 yrs i been producing. It was wank until 2.5 came out but the difference with that and 2 was unbelievable.

I don't use anything to do my mixdowns. Every last bit of my tunes is done in Reason, including the EQ work. As for the compression and i tend to use 2-5 efffects units on each sound. the compress master patch for the scream units is really good for tighening things up. I use a mixture of Malstroms and subtractors. Malstrom for the higher end trance sounding synths and then subtractor for the bassy bits. they are easier to get sounding "gggrrrr" if u know what i mean for when the break kicks back in. give s the track more power i find.

as for an engineering course........nope, i am completely self taught, both programme and in terms of mixing down and EQing. it's improoved a lot in the past 6 months if i'm honest, with tips from various people in the know. other than that, lots of practice. and i mean lots. i'm a touch obsessvie really. (coem home from work and then once ive eaten grub i'm on the PC till almost 12, normally 5 nights of the week. as they say practice makes perfect , and my tunes are by no means perfect so until thje are i shall keep doing it. (my mrs loves it as well, NOT!!! ) ;)

cheers for all the comments mate.

will be posting up another one soon as i did the track yesterday and now just have to mix it down and tweak.

:)