just bought a copy of Reamix and have already applied some of your techniques to some mixes. wondering if you had any designs on supplementing this excellent guide with examples geared more towards rock and pop (drums and bass mixing techniques particularly)? have been doing this for years, but its great to learn new approaches.

Thanks for asking! One day, yes, I'll be updating it, both with more content and techniques (REAPER has grown since then) and additional sample files. But that won't be for at least another year I'm afraid, got so much on the go. Meanwhile, one of the sample files (Waiting) is a bit bluesey but closer to the genre you're asking about, with percussion and all. After you get the hang of the techniques a bit, there's no reason why you can't experiment with them on files like that. It just takes a little time! Good luck! :)

thanks for the reply. looking forward to it. hadn't experimented with channel splitting much in the past beyond submixes and parallel processing. its been interesting. where i've really noticed improvements is in sparse arrangements like in the examples. helps to thicken up the mixes in a good way. made them more 3-dimensional. if anyone is on the fence as to wether or not to buy this book, i highly recommend it, especially if you are using reaper.

I may have some metal fun to post

i say yes to metal fun. looking forward to it.

already edited for the most part, and some of the drums are already triggered, but still should be fun. Note the guitars are clean DI, you need to add your own distortion to them Theres an already mixed version as an example here:

also, when you say metal fun...? care to elaborate? because now i'm curious. are you talking gated reverb-on-the-snare-eighties-style tips? or scooped-mid-chunk-chunka-guitars-of-nineties? or maybe bulk-rate-Aquanet-buyouts from distribution centers?

wow. you posted while i was being silly.