Mixing

So, I'm guessing mixing (recording-type mixing) is probably different things for different people. Probably lots of people are much better musicians than I am and they play their rhythm guitar part and maybe they have to try a couple of times, but they get one with no mistakes in it. No wrong chords, but also no buzzes and no places where one of the strums in their strum pattern didn't happen, or whatever.

That's not how it works for me. It's generally not worth trying more than three times, though if I really crash and burn I delete that take and do another. (And if I'm *really* crashing and burning I give up and put that song off to the next recording session after more practice.) I do two (if things are going well) or three (if I feel insecure) vocal takes also. Or sometimes more than that.

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So perhaps it is no wonder that mixing a short easy song can take four hours and mixing a longer more challenging one twelve. But this is why I am concerned that "October" may not be time enough. Especially since I also want to write and record harmonies, which takes time, and will produce more tracks that have to be mixed.

Whuf. Probably if I were a better musician, this would go quicker.