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The First Stage Of Mixing Is Finished!
Nov. 16th, 2013 05:44 pmI finished the preliminary mix of Yellow Truck Song today. Which means 1) barring something really unforeseen, all 20 songs will be on the album! 2)I finished a day early! Giving me an extra day for mastering, though we are going to Skype-game with Jake tomorrow, so I may not be accomplishing a whole lot with it.
I also fixed a couple of egregious errors in some of my mixes: Ludington's Ride, I discovered when I went to remove the pre-instrumental that just wasn't working, had gone up without EQ or reverb, so I fixed that, and Hydrogen Burns had gone up as just the lone harmony part--no melody, no instrument, so I fixed that, and I had a couple of things that were peaking much higher than expected in the finished version so I tracked that down and fixed it.
Next comes listening to everything in the car and also incorporating Peter's suggestions about fixes. I need to get the sound reasonably consistent, which may involve moving parts in the auditory field (changing the pan) and also making soft parts of the vocals louder so they aren't drowned out by other vocals or by the instrument. The volume adjustments for a single song can take hours--and go up as the square of the number of parts. I'm going to have to spend some time messing with the esses; the standard de-esser is just not working as well as I'd like, and the esses only seem to really become unreasonable after the reverb is on, so I wonder if the reverb is set wrong somehow. If I can find a fix for that it would be easy to make the adjustment for everything.
I also fixed a couple of egregious errors in some of my mixes: Ludington's Ride, I discovered when I went to remove the pre-instrumental that just wasn't working, had gone up without EQ or reverb, so I fixed that, and Hydrogen Burns had gone up as just the lone harmony part--no melody, no instrument, so I fixed that, and I had a couple of things that were peaking much higher than expected in the finished version so I tracked that down and fixed it.
Next comes listening to everything in the car and also incorporating Peter's suggestions about fixes. I need to get the sound reasonably consistent, which may involve moving parts in the auditory field (changing the pan) and also making soft parts of the vocals louder so they aren't drowned out by other vocals or by the instrument. The volume adjustments for a single song can take hours--and go up as the square of the number of parts. I'm going to have to spend some time messing with the esses; the standard de-esser is just not working as well as I'd like, and the esses only seem to really become unreasonable after the reverb is on, so I wonder if the reverb is set wrong somehow. If I can find a fix for that it would be easy to make the adjustment for everything.
