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Another frustrating, and ultimately disappointing, day today...
Remixed/remastered ...PLAGUE and WATCHING... in CE5/AA3. Both sound fine and are keepers.
However, I spent practically the whole day trying to sort out ...NUMBER TWO, and having got to the 37th different mix, I decided that I can't do anything with it in its present state. I won't even begin to list all the hoops I tried to jump through to bring this track home, but ultimately I couldn't get it to work. It's a shame, because I really love the track. I gave it every chance to come through, but...
The problem lies in my choice of VST soft synths, I plumped for a couple of "distressed" sounds which seemed to occupy the same space EQ-wise. No amount of adjustment would make the various parts sit well together, so I have decided to drop the track from the album. I'll revisit it again in the future - I just don't have the time for it right now.
Of course, that now means I have to adjust the tracklisting. What larks! A job for next week, perhaps. Well, at least the album will be even shorter now...;-).
Enjoy the fine weather!
Regards,
djp
Showing posts with label mix/master. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mix/master. Show all posts
Friday, July 3, 2015
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Tracklisting/Complications From A Fall/The New Number Two/A Plague On Both Your Houses/Watching The News With The Sound Off - 020715
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Another frustrating today, but maybe not as bad as yesterday.
Having reviewed the work I did yesterday, COMPLICATIONS... passed muster, the others didn't.
I spent much of the day remixing in CE5/AA3 - ...PLAGUE... is now fine. ...NUMBER proved very frustrating - I'm now up to Mix 29 and I'm still not sure if it's OK. The 29th mix is OK to sleep on overnight - if I'm not there, I'm nearly there. I didn't get around to WATCHING... at all.
Busy day tomorrow, I reckon...;-).
Regards,
djp
Another frustrating today, but maybe not as bad as yesterday.
Having reviewed the work I did yesterday, COMPLICATIONS... passed muster, the others didn't.
I spent much of the day remixing in CE5/AA3 - ...PLAGUE... is now fine. ...NUMBER proved very frustrating - I'm now up to Mix 29 and I'm still not sure if it's OK. The 29th mix is OK to sleep on overnight - if I'm not there, I'm nearly there. I didn't get around to WATCHING... at all.
Busy day tomorrow, I reckon...;-).
Regards,
djp
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
You'll Never Miss Your Mother Till The Well Runs Dry/Me & The Fly/I Choose Indecision/Tracklisting
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...MOTHER...
Mixed/mastered 14 different mixes in CE5/AA3. The last one is the best. The balance got sorted fairly quickly, but I kept hearing these timing glitches and I think I've fixed as many of them as I could without actually re-tracking.
And that, my friends, is the last track on the album done and dusted. And to prove that point, here's a little screenshot of my progress spreadsheet, showing a very satisfying preponderance of yellow...:-
...MOTHER...
Mixed/mastered 14 different mixes in CE5/AA3. The last one is the best. The balance got sorted fairly quickly, but I kept hearing these timing glitches and I think I've fixed as many of them as I could without actually re-tracking.
And that, my friends, is the last track on the album done and dusted. And to prove that point, here's a little screenshot of my progress spreadsheet, showing a very satisfying preponderance of yellow...:-
I had a lot of PC trouble this morning, which was really pooping on my party, but I eventually sussed that my problem was a Windows update which hadn't "taken" properly. Once that got sorted, everything went smoothly.
So all the heavy lifting has been done. The next step is to concentrate on the tracklisting and putting together a full album mix for inclusion as a bonus track on the Bandcamp release. I am also going to put the mix up on Mixcloud for your streaming pleasure.
Speaking of the tracklisting, I CHOOSE INDECISION isn't going to make the cut. The mix is weak, principally because of the drum parts. The track is totally rescueable, but I don't have the time or the inclination right now, so I'll revive it for a future release.
My Twitter promo campaign for ...FLY is still ongoing, but it's nearly finished now. I've been getting great responses to date, with hopefully more to come. Oh, and the drum & bass mix is in progress, so I'll see how that works out. If I like it, I'll add it as a bonus track on the Bandcamp release.
Tomorrow I will crack on with the full album mix and a spot of promo. After that, we'll see...
Regards,
djp
Friday, June 5, 2015
Me & The Fly/This Is Going To Take, Like, Forever - 050615
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...FLY
Finished the first half of my Twitter promo campaign. Second half starts tomorrow
...FOREVER
Another "window" opened for me this afternoon, so I managed to mix/master the track in CE5/AA3.
The track truly lived up to its name as it was way more difficult to mix than I'd thought. The main difficulty was trying to get the bass to sit nicely in the mix. Took me a few hours but I finally cracked it. A certain amount of judicious editing of the Ric bass parts was required.
The mix is fine. I thought I'd missed an aspect of the track in the mix that I thought was present in the rough demo I'd made a few months back, but when I reviewed the demo, that aspect wasn't there as I'd imagined it. Starting to come a little unglued here...;-).
Only one more mix to go. I won't be able to manage it this weekend and I'm on a road trip pretty much all next week, so it will the week after that again before I'll be able tackle that track, In the meantime, I'll continue with my promo efforts.
Regards,
djp
...FLY
Finished the first half of my Twitter promo campaign. Second half starts tomorrow
...FOREVER
Another "window" opened for me this afternoon, so I managed to mix/master the track in CE5/AA3.
The track truly lived up to its name as it was way more difficult to mix than I'd thought. The main difficulty was trying to get the bass to sit nicely in the mix. Took me a few hours but I finally cracked it. A certain amount of judicious editing of the Ric bass parts was required.
The mix is fine. I thought I'd missed an aspect of the track in the mix that I thought was present in the rough demo I'd made a few months back, but when I reviewed the demo, that aspect wasn't there as I'd imagined it. Starting to come a little unglued here...;-).
Only one more mix to go. I won't be able to manage it this weekend and I'm on a road trip pretty much all next week, so it will the week after that again before I'll be able tackle that track, In the meantime, I'll continue with my promo efforts.
Regards,
djp
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Me & The Fly/My Troubles Are As Nothing Compared To Yours/Stiltwalker In The Wind - 040615
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...FLY
I was starting to do some more promo work on Twitter, when a whopping great big "window" opened up for me, so I dropped the promo for the present. I'll get on to it over the next few days.
On top of that I got contacted with an offer to do a drum & bass remix of ...FLY. Will have to think about that - correspondence has been exchanged and responses are awaited...
In view of the whopping great big "window":-
...TROUBLES
Mixed/mastered in CE5/AA3. Three mixes in all - third is the best. Had to do a lot of emergency surgery on the Ric bass parts, but everything sounds hella tight now.
STILTWALKER...
Mixed/mastered in CE5/AA3. Two mixes - second is best. Had to tweak the vocal parts a bit. Pretty easy mix to do, as it happens.
I have to rejoin the "real world" briefly tomorrow, so I don't know exactly what I'll be doing on the project. Promo most likely.
Only two tracks left to mix/master now. Yowza!
Regards,
djp
...FLY
I was starting to do some more promo work on Twitter, when a whopping great big "window" opened up for me, so I dropped the promo for the present. I'll get on to it over the next few days.
On top of that I got contacted with an offer to do a drum & bass remix of ...FLY. Will have to think about that - correspondence has been exchanged and responses are awaited...
In view of the whopping great big "window":-
...TROUBLES
Mixed/mastered in CE5/AA3. Three mixes in all - third is the best. Had to do a lot of emergency surgery on the Ric bass parts, but everything sounds hella tight now.
STILTWALKER...
Mixed/mastered in CE5/AA3. Two mixes - second is best. Had to tweak the vocal parts a bit. Pretty easy mix to do, as it happens.
I have to rejoin the "real world" briefly tomorrow, so I don't know exactly what I'll be doing on the project. Promo most likely.
Only two tracks left to mix/master now. Yowza!
Regards,
djp
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Me & The Fly/Mare Nostrum - 030615
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ME & THE FLY
I've been slaving away on Twitter doing a spot of promo for the EP. Should be finished tomorrow.
MARE NOSTRUM
Another one of my famous "windows" opened this morning and I managed to mix/master the track in CE5/AA3. The track sounds great.
Another "window" may open for me tomorrow, so I'm told. We'll have to see about that, though...
Only four more tracks left. Should be finished within a month, but possibly sooner...;-)
Regards,
djp
ME & THE FLY
I've been slaving away on Twitter doing a spot of promo for the EP. Should be finished tomorrow.
MARE NOSTRUM
Another one of my famous "windows" opened this morning and I managed to mix/master the track in CE5/AA3. The track sounds great.
Another "window" may open for me tomorrow, so I'm told. We'll have to see about that, though...
Only four more tracks left. Should be finished within a month, but possibly sooner...;-)
Regards,
djp
Sunday, May 24, 2015
You Have My Heart Scalded/Me & The Fly - 240515
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...SCALDED
One last tweak to the mix in CE5/AA3. Definitely using this mix...I hope...;-).
...FLY
Finally got down to designing the cover art. Had a bit of fun locating a suitable font, but eventually got one. I can highly recommend 1001freefonts.com if you're stuck for a font.
I also found a suitable image from Wikipedia. I know, "Creative Commons" and all that, but just because I used it in this instance doesn't mean I endorse it. You can't call me a hypocrite if I acknowledge it myself...;-).
I'm having a good old think about a suitable release date. Sometime within the next few weeks, that for sure.
Roadtrip for the next few days. See you later on in the week...
Regards,
djp
...SCALDED
One last tweak to the mix in CE5/AA3. Definitely using this mix...I hope...;-).
...FLY
Finally got down to designing the cover art. Had a bit of fun locating a suitable font, but eventually got one. I can highly recommend 1001freefonts.com if you're stuck for a font.
I also found a suitable image from Wikipedia. I know, "Creative Commons" and all that, but just because I used it in this instance doesn't mean I endorse it. You can't call me a hypocrite if I acknowledge it myself...;-).
I'm having a good old think about a suitable release date. Sometime within the next few weeks, that for sure.
Roadtrip for the next few days. See you later on in the week...
Regards,
djp
Friday, May 22, 2015
FCA Boots/Gomorrah/Is Everybody Happy Yet? - 220515
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FCA BOOTS
Sorted the glitch. Remixed/remastered in CE5/AA3. Sorted.
GOMORRAH
Had to do an emergency edit on the Ric bass/Squier Strat parts. Mixed/mastered in CE5/AA3. Three mixes. Taking the second.
IS EVERYBODY HAPPY YET?
What a nightmare of a track to mix. Had to edit the Squier Strat parts and do a huge amount of tweaking of the VST soft synth parts. Mixed/mastered in CE5/AA3/AA1.5. Not sure if I'm 100% happy with it. Made multiple mixes, too many to count. I picked the least worst one, if you follow me. I spent an awful lot of time on a track that won't actually feature on the finished album. Who'd be me, eh...?
In other news, my broadband was down all day. I was too busy to check it out during the day, but this evening I got on to my ISP. During the week, I'd ordered fibre broadband and was told that an engineer would be out in a few weeks to sort things out. However, it seems that they actually turned on my fiber broadband today and my router couldn't handle it, Luckily, I had a second router which could take fibre broadband, so I got on to the support guy and found that if I connected it to the test phone socket inside the master phone socket, everything worked fine. However, the support guy told me that this would disable my landline, so I had to disconnect my alarm, because it was beeping like mad.
Subsequently, I discovered that the landline could work if I connected it to the test socket through the filter. So it seems there may have been no need to disconnect the alarm at all. Tcheh! So now you know what I'll be up to for the rest of the evening.
Shtuff...
Regards,
djp
FCA BOOTS
Sorted the glitch. Remixed/remastered in CE5/AA3. Sorted.
GOMORRAH
Had to do an emergency edit on the Ric bass/Squier Strat parts. Mixed/mastered in CE5/AA3. Three mixes. Taking the second.
IS EVERYBODY HAPPY YET?
What a nightmare of a track to mix. Had to edit the Squier Strat parts and do a huge amount of tweaking of the VST soft synth parts. Mixed/mastered in CE5/AA3/AA1.5. Not sure if I'm 100% happy with it. Made multiple mixes, too many to count. I picked the least worst one, if you follow me. I spent an awful lot of time on a track that won't actually feature on the finished album. Who'd be me, eh...?
In other news, my broadband was down all day. I was too busy to check it out during the day, but this evening I got on to my ISP. During the week, I'd ordered fibre broadband and was told that an engineer would be out in a few weeks to sort things out. However, it seems that they actually turned on my fiber broadband today and my router couldn't handle it, Luckily, I had a second router which could take fibre broadband, so I got on to the support guy and found that if I connected it to the test phone socket inside the master phone socket, everything worked fine. However, the support guy told me that this would disable my landline, so I had to disconnect my alarm, because it was beeping like mad.
Subsequently, I discovered that the landline could work if I connected it to the test socket through the filter. So it seems there may have been no need to disconnect the alarm at all. Tcheh! So now you know what I'll be up to for the rest of the evening.
Shtuff...
Regards,
djp
Thursday, May 21, 2015
I Can Explain...Everything/You Have My Heart Scalded/FCA Boots - 210515
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A "window" opened for me today, and I mixed both of the tracks in CE5. Mastered in AA3. One mix of ...EVERYTHING and two mixes of ...SCALDED. I'll take the second mix, thank you very much...
There's a little fix I need to do for FCA BOOTS. There's a glitch that's noticeable over the headphones but not over the monitors. I'll have a look at this in the next few days.
That's good progress made this week. Only nine more tracks to mix/master.
More tomorrow.
Regards,
djp
A "window" opened for me today, and I mixed both of the tracks in CE5. Mastered in AA3. One mix of ...EVERYTHING and two mixes of ...SCALDED. I'll take the second mix, thank you very much...
There's a little fix I need to do for FCA BOOTS. There's a glitch that's noticeable over the headphones but not over the monitors. I'll have a look at this in the next few days.
That's good progress made this week. Only nine more tracks to mix/master.
More tomorrow.
Regards,
djp
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
FCA Boots/Tropes and Memes - 200515
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FCA BOOTS
Did 4 different mixes in CE5 and mastered in AA3. I think I'll go with the fourth mix, but I have an idea for an edit which might be interesting - we'll see. It'll be based on the fourth mix anyway, so it'll only take a few minutes to try it out.
Had to do an emergency edit of the Ric bass parts and programme a new synth part - the latter may not be necessary.
TROPES AND MEMES
Did one mix in CE5 and mastered in AA3. A simpler task, even though that track is more complex than FCA. Such is life.
I'm starting to run out of time here, so I'm going to do a blitz of mixing/mastering over the next few weeks. Some distractions along the way of course - a.k.a. shtuff.
More tomorrow.
Regards,
djp
FCA BOOTS
Did 4 different mixes in CE5 and mastered in AA3. I think I'll go with the fourth mix, but I have an idea for an edit which might be interesting - we'll see. It'll be based on the fourth mix anyway, so it'll only take a few minutes to try it out.
Had to do an emergency edit of the Ric bass parts and programme a new synth part - the latter may not be necessary.
TROPES AND MEMES
Did one mix in CE5 and mastered in AA3. A simpler task, even though that track is more complex than FCA. Such is life.
I'm starting to run out of time here, so I'm going to do a blitz of mixing/mastering over the next few weeks. Some distractions along the way of course - a.k.a. shtuff.
More tomorrow.
Regards,
djp
Friday, May 8, 2015
Choking On Dry Bread (a.k.a. Flypaper)/Tracklisting/ You'll Never Miss Your Mother Till The Well Runs Dry - 080515
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Spent the morning tweaking the edits and dubs in CE5. And I was happy enough with that, when a window emerged in the afternoon to mix/master the track properly. Which I did, except of course I did a further significant amount of additional tweaking along the way. I now think I've got it sounding as good as I can get it. If you like dub, then I think you'll like this.
I've decided to retitle the track as FLYPAPER, since the track has nothing to do with either choking or dry bread, but also there is a large lump of vocals from ...FLY, so it makes sense to change the title. That's it - no further discussion - executive decision.
In other news, I started putting together an initial tracklisting in AA3. So far, I've got 19 tracks and the running time is around 77 minutes. I'm trying to sequence the tracks in trios of fast/slow/ambient, but I know that the last track has to be ...MOTHER, so that idea doesn't hold all the way through. I need to check that I have not added EP tracks and that I have enough spare ambient tracks to go on the EPs (there will be three, FYI). I'll have another look at this over the weekend.
Making progress, bai...
Regards,
djp
Spent the morning tweaking the edits and dubs in CE5. And I was happy enough with that, when a window emerged in the afternoon to mix/master the track properly. Which I did, except of course I did a further significant amount of additional tweaking along the way. I now think I've got it sounding as good as I can get it. If you like dub, then I think you'll like this.
I've decided to retitle the track as FLYPAPER, since the track has nothing to do with either choking or dry bread, but also there is a large lump of vocals from ...FLY, so it makes sense to change the title. That's it - no further discussion - executive decision.
In other news, I started putting together an initial tracklisting in AA3. So far, I've got 19 tracks and the running time is around 77 minutes. I'm trying to sequence the tracks in trios of fast/slow/ambient, but I know that the last track has to be ...MOTHER, so that idea doesn't hold all the way through. I need to check that I have not added EP tracks and that I have enough spare ambient tracks to go on the EPs (there will be three, FYI). I'll have another look at this over the weekend.
Making progress, bai...
Regards,
djp
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Choking On Dry Bread - 070515
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Great fun today! Got most of the dubbing-up done in CE5. Tracked a metronome part using the Behringer Xenyx 1202, which I may (or may not) use in various places through the track.
I just need to work on the vocal parts and a few other bits and pieces tomorrow.
While the levels will be similar to ...FLY, it looks like the mastering set-up may have to be somewhat different, so while I might have a go at mastering tomorrow, it will only be a provisional jobby.
Possibly inspired by this track? I'll admit to nothing...
Great fun today! Got most of the dubbing-up done in CE5. Tracked a metronome part using the Behringer Xenyx 1202, which I may (or may not) use in various places through the track.
I just need to work on the vocal parts and a few other bits and pieces tomorrow.
While the levels will be similar to ...FLY, it looks like the mastering set-up may have to be somewhat different, so while I might have a go at mastering tomorrow, it will only be a provisional jobby.
Possibly inspired by this track? I'll admit to nothing...
Regards,
djp
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Mare Nostrum/Me & The Fly - 280415
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Big Gulag-shaped window opened up for me today!
MARE...
Spent the morning editing/dubbing-up the track in CE5. Not fully convinced that it will make the final album - I think that will depend on how satisfied I am with mix. But it should at least feature on an EP - especially after all the time and effort I put into the bastid. Time will tell...
...FLY
Spent the afternoon mixing and mastering the track in CE5/AA3. Ended up with five different mixes and I had issues with all of them, but I reckon I got them sorted on the fifth mix. Nice, big, beaty track and the title track for the first EP!
Having spent all day in the Gulag, I will be glad to return to the real world for the rest of the week, if only to give me ears a rest!
See yah when I see yah...
Regards,
djp
Big Gulag-shaped window opened up for me today!
MARE...
Spent the morning editing/dubbing-up the track in CE5. Not fully convinced that it will make the final album - I think that will depend on how satisfied I am with mix. But it should at least feature on an EP - especially after all the time and effort I put into the bastid. Time will tell...
...FLY
Spent the afternoon mixing and mastering the track in CE5/AA3. Ended up with five different mixes and I had issues with all of them, but I reckon I got them sorted on the fifth mix. Nice, big, beaty track and the title track for the first EP!
Having spent all day in the Gulag, I will be glad to return to the real world for the rest of the week, if only to give me ears a rest!
See yah when I see yah...
Regards,
djp
Monday, April 27, 2015
Mare Nostrum - 270415
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Tracked 9 vocal parts and 1 sleighbells part on the Gulag Mobile. Audio cleanup in AA3 and inserted into the relevant project file in CE5.
A lot of editing required. There are tuning...er...conflicts between the vocal parts and the pre-existing musical parts. I think I can work around them. but it may require a bit of ingenuity on my part. Should be fun.
One of the issues I have with this track is because I cannot work out the tempo of the track exactly, based as it is on a live drum track, I'll have to do my dub delays by ear. Should be fun (part deux).
This should be my penultimate tracking session for the album. I may have one more to do, but that won't be for weeks yet. In the meantime, I will edit MARE... and then crack on with the mixing/mastering. Should be fun (part drei).
More work tomorrow.
Regards,
djp
Tracked 9 vocal parts and 1 sleighbells part on the Gulag Mobile. Audio cleanup in AA3 and inserted into the relevant project file in CE5.
A lot of editing required. There are tuning...er...conflicts between the vocal parts and the pre-existing musical parts. I think I can work around them. but it may require a bit of ingenuity on my part. Should be fun.
One of the issues I have with this track is because I cannot work out the tempo of the track exactly, based as it is on a live drum track, I'll have to do my dub delays by ear. Should be fun (part deux).
This should be my penultimate tracking session for the album. I may have one more to do, but that won't be for weeks yet. In the meantime, I will edit MARE... and then crack on with the mixing/mastering. Should be fun (part drei).
More work tomorrow.
Regards,
djp
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Tropes and Memes - 260415
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Edited/dubbed-up in CE5. Mostly on the MIDI drum parts. Had to track one of the VST soft synths (Prologue Forum Romanum) to audio because the synth tended to hang. Tidied up the ending and the track is now ready to mix/master. Sounds immense...;-).
The plan for tomorrow is to track the vocals for MARE NOSTRUM. That's unless "shtuff" happens...
Regards,
djp
Edited/dubbed-up in CE5. Mostly on the MIDI drum parts. Had to track one of the VST soft synths (Prologue Forum Romanum) to audio because the synth tended to hang. Tidied up the ending and the track is now ready to mix/master. Sounds immense...;-).
The plan for tomorrow is to track the vocals for MARE NOSTRUM. That's unless "shtuff" happens...
Regards,
djp
Saturday, April 25, 2015
FCA Boots - 250415
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In the spirit of yesterday's posting, I did a blitz on FCA BOOTS, editing and dubbing-up in CE5.
There isn't a huge amount of space in the track, so there wasn't a huge amount of dubbing-up I could do (some of it will be lost in the mix, which rather defeats the purpose of dubbing-up, I suppose) but it's done and I'm happy with it. Had to tweak some of the Ric bass/Squier Strat parts, but it's sounding great now and ready to mix/master.
More work (possibly) tomorrow...
Regards,
djp
In the spirit of yesterday's posting, I did a blitz on FCA BOOTS, editing and dubbing-up in CE5.
There isn't a huge amount of space in the track, so there wasn't a huge amount of dubbing-up I could do (some of it will be lost in the mix, which rather defeats the purpose of dubbing-up, I suppose) but it's done and I'm happy with it. Had to tweak some of the Ric bass/Squier Strat parts, but it's sounding great now and ready to mix/master.
More work (possibly) tomorrow...
Regards,
djp
Friday, April 24, 2015
Gomorrah/Mare Nostrum/FCA Boots/Tropes and Memes/Everybody Calls Me Darren - 240415
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GOMORRAH
Edited/dubbed-up the vocal/Squier Strat/MIDI drum parts in CE5. Everything goes so much more smoothly when the PC decides to behave itself - just sayin'...
The track is ready to mix/master and it's HUGE!!!. You're going to love it - or absolutely hate it...;-).
The track bears a very passing resemblance to this...
As for the other tracks, I've had to make a few executive decisions. I'm kinda running out of time and I have a lot of tracks to work on.The next few months could be a little difficult what with business travel, holidays and such, so I have to be realistic about what I can achieve.
So here goes...
Regards,
djp
GOMORRAH
Edited/dubbed-up the vocal/Squier Strat/MIDI drum parts in CE5. Everything goes so much more smoothly when the PC decides to behave itself - just sayin'...
The track is ready to mix/master and it's HUGE!!!. You're going to love it - or absolutely hate it...;-).
The track bears a very passing resemblance to this...
So here goes...
- MARE NOSTRUM - I will record choral vocal parts for this track next week - definitely. I have a "window" which I plan to exploit to the full, and this track is window-shaped...
- FCA BOOTS - I'm not going to bother with vocals on this - just go straight to mix/master stage
- TROPES AND MEMES - ditto
- EVERYBODY CALLS ME DARREN - I'm going to abandon this track. It's a silly idea that doesn't actually add any value to the album. In fact, possibly quite the reverse..
Regards,
djp
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
You'll Never Miss Your Mother Till The Well Runs Dry - 140415
Sponsored by "Deezer".
Edited/dubbed-up the Squier Strat parts in CE5. Also did some editing of the Ric bass parts. Things sound pretty tight now.
According to previous blog posts, I had planned to track some choral-type vocal parts and according to my progress spreadsheet, I actually had tracked them. But I can't find the wavs anywhere, so I suspect that I didn't track them, but mistakenly noted that I had. D'ye follow me?
At this stage, I can't really see how adding vocals will do anything other than muck up the arrangement, so I'll forget about the vocals. And on the basis of such accidents, artistic choices are made...;-).
That being the case, the track is ready to mix/master. Time to move on...
Regards,
djp
Edited/dubbed-up the Squier Strat parts in CE5. Also did some editing of the Ric bass parts. Things sound pretty tight now.
According to previous blog posts, I had planned to track some choral-type vocal parts and according to my progress spreadsheet, I actually had tracked them. But I can't find the wavs anywhere, so I suspect that I didn't track them, but mistakenly noted that I had. D'ye follow me?
At this stage, I can't really see how adding vocals will do anything other than muck up the arrangement, so I'll forget about the vocals. And on the basis of such accidents, artistic choices are made...;-).
That being the case, the track is ready to mix/master. Time to move on...
Regards,
djp
Monday, April 13, 2015
You Have My Heart Scalded - 130415
Sponsored by "Added April 2015".
Finished editing and dubbing-up in CE5. The dub delays were very much a case of trail and (lots of error), but the track sounds fine and ready to mix/master. Time to move on.
Regards,
djp
Finished editing and dubbing-up in CE5. The dub delays were very much a case of trail and (lots of error), but the track sounds fine and ready to mix/master. Time to move on.
Regards,
djp
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Stiltwalker In The Wind - 090415
Sponsored by "Depeche Mode".
Finished off editing/dubbing-up in CE5. I had to tweak one of the Squier Strat parts too - sounds much better now.
I had a lot of issues with my PC today. I think one of VST delay plugins is very "needy" memory-wise and it caused CE5 to freeze, almost invariably after I'd made some change without saving it. Changing the plugin sorted that out, although the alternative plugin doesn't quite have the character of the original. But it'll do...
The track is now ready to mix/master.
More work tomorrow. Time to move on...
Regards,
djp
Finished off editing/dubbing-up in CE5. I had to tweak one of the Squier Strat parts too - sounds much better now.
I had a lot of issues with my PC today. I think one of VST delay plugins is very "needy" memory-wise and it caused CE5 to freeze, almost invariably after I'd made some change without saving it. Changing the plugin sorted that out, although the alternative plugin doesn't quite have the character of the original. But it'll do...
The track is now ready to mix/master.
More work tomorrow. Time to move on...
Regards,
djp
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