cshude.....Wow, you must have ESP. That's exactly what I did this past Friday. The headphones really make a huge difference. I haven't tried using the equalizer to mix down. There is one on my CUBASE software, not really comfortable using that one though. Looks really complicating so I don't miss with it to much. I guess if it had active meters, I could see what changes I was doing better besides just changing by what I'm actually hearing. Thanks for the good pointers of mixing down, using a low volume make sense. I will try that. Thanks for responding.
Becca