hi mr sneap, my band is going to mix down and master our songs next mth and i might need some advice from u... my bands plays death/thrash... personally, to me, our rough mix has already quite a good sound, but we need more alterations to make everything sound right. for drums, we only use trigger for the pedals, everything else is natural.. we are using alesis dm5 and i think the pedals sounds great, but do u make any alterations for the pedal sound when mixing down? the major problem for the drum section is the tom-toms... we can't really hear the tom-toms being played when the drummer is rolling fast... how do we tell the sound engineer bout this?? we are using shure sm57's for all tom-toms mike up.. i think for most of your recordings/mixing, u tend to put a bit of reverb for the overall drum sound... maybe u using reverb to smoothen up the drum sound? will the drum sound become 'smaller'? how do u usually mix down for guitar tracks?? i am using just a sansamp gt2 pedal, a marshall stack (slash model) with an ibanez RG... my setup is simple, but i am quite happy with my guitar tone. how do u eq the guitar sound? do u compress guitar sound? help me out here thanxs! sorry for the long thread!!