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Bit more progress on the mixing front
Feb. 9th, 2012 09:20 pmI have made a first pass at mixing Cedarglass and am now working on Oak and Ash. Haven't even got started on Wise Hands.
Had to cancel recording tomorrow as I have a meeting that conflicts. But that will give me time to 1) mix Oak and Ash, 2) mix Wise Hands, and 3) practice and set up scratch tracks for two more songs. I'm beginning to think recording every Friday is just way faster than I can keep up with, mixing wise, and maybe recording every other Friday will work better.
I also did a bunch of tweaking on songs I had already mixed. Listening to them all in a row revealed some weirdnesses. It sounds strange when the positions of the main vocal and the harmony vocal switch sides between songs, for instance, so I re-did a couple to make the placement more consistent. Also I listened to everything in the car, and that made it plain that I had the piano track much too low in the mix for a couple of songs. So I fixed those things, and raised the levels on a couple of songs that were quieter than the others. I'm trying to get it so everything peaks at -3 dB to leave a little headroom for mastering. But I want to have everything at about the same level so people don't have to lunge for the volume control when they had it turned up high to hear one song and the next song tries to rip their ears off.
Practicing has been somewhat simplified by dropping the songs I've already recorded off the practice list (I'll have to do them now and then so I don't have to re-learn them for housefilks or concerts, but I'm not trying to do them every two days anymore.) However I also have new songs to add to the practice list, like the four I wrote in January, one of which I need to record soon, because I wrote it for some video gaming buddies.
That's most of what I'm up to, these days.
Had to cancel recording tomorrow as I have a meeting that conflicts. But that will give me time to 1) mix Oak and Ash, 2) mix Wise Hands, and 3) practice and set up scratch tracks for two more songs. I'm beginning to think recording every Friday is just way faster than I can keep up with, mixing wise, and maybe recording every other Friday will work better.
I also did a bunch of tweaking on songs I had already mixed. Listening to them all in a row revealed some weirdnesses. It sounds strange when the positions of the main vocal and the harmony vocal switch sides between songs, for instance, so I re-did a couple to make the placement more consistent. Also I listened to everything in the car, and that made it plain that I had the piano track much too low in the mix for a couple of songs. So I fixed those things, and raised the levels on a couple of songs that were quieter than the others. I'm trying to get it so everything peaks at -3 dB to leave a little headroom for mastering. But I want to have everything at about the same level so people don't have to lunge for the volume control when they had it turned up high to hear one song and the next song tries to rip their ears off.
Practicing has been somewhat simplified by dropping the songs I've already recorded off the practice list (I'll have to do them now and then so I don't have to re-learn them for housefilks or concerts, but I'm not trying to do them every two days anymore.) However I also have new songs to add to the practice list, like the four I wrote in January, one of which I need to record soon, because I wrote it for some video gaming buddies.
That's most of what I'm up to, these days.
