Finished all of the surround mixes and threw them into compressor. this program is such a pain in the ass because i never know what i'm doing and the final product turns out wrong. when i presented it in class, all i got was stereo even though i set it up as a surround sound mix.
April 20th
I finished up all my stereo mixes and started the transition to surround sound, the way i organized it was that the vocals were in the center with the reverb in the left and right. I made it so the guitars were mostly in the front and their reverb went to the back. I set it up so the drums were in the center and the bass was mostly in the front and sub with some leakage to the back. I really dug the sound.
April 17th
Met with Stan and he told me that my bass was too loud and didn't need to equalize all my drums. i thought it sounded awesome but he said it was too processed. We added compression to it and raised the high end a little bit. We did it to back down. He threw a noise gate on the guitar so it wouldn't hum and then bused it to a reverb channel to cover up the cut off. After this I made the same changes to all my other songs and got them sounding pretty loud. I like loud music, especially hardcore.
April 16th
I finished back down because i'm supposed to meet with stan tomorrow. I added the gang vocals and bused them to their own reverb channel. I bounced it out and plan on showing it to stan tomorrow as the one track that i have time for.
April 14th
I fished wasted youth, this song has to be the hardest one i had. there were so many changes musically and every time i would adjust levels, it would sound horrible so i had to readjust. i tried putting a noise gate on the guitars because there was too much hum, but i couldn't figure out how it worked so i just muted the guitar whenever it wasn't playing. I finally got it to sound mediocre and called it a song. Once i get some compression on it, it should bring the lower parts of the song up and lessen the dynamic difference between the softer parts.
Aril 13th
I finished up beaten down. on the rough mix it sounded like the vocals were too loud so i piped those down. the filter i used on the vocal overdub wasn't working right either, so i took that off of it. I had to mess with the gang vocals because they were too loud so i set them all to different levels and bused them to reverb and it sounded alright. This is my favorite song, so i'll try to get more out of it once i talk to stan.
April 11th
I opted out of drinking tonight to work on beaten down. I got all the levels set and ready. for some reason the bass on this song sound muddy and distorted but i don't think there is anyway to fix it because it's the actual track that came through in recording. Since we had a lot of trouble getting the timing right for this song i don't think it would be an easy task to overdub it again. I set the levels and threw on a sweet vocoder like plug in on the vocal overdub. I'm planning on finishing it up this weekend.
April 7th
i worked wasted youth and i was working on setting all the levels for it. this song has lots of dynamic change in it, so i had to go through and listen to the song about 20 times to get everything right for each individual instrument. I set up equilizers on all the instruments to get the tone i wanted out of them. I got reverb on the vocals by busing that out to an aux fader. I gave up on this once wrestling came on though.
March 31st
I started back down in my free time between work and wrestling. I basically just got the levels set on it because it's kind of a crappy day and i don't feel like hanging out in the studio. I set up the equilizers on the guitars and added a little bit more power to the bass because having a double track wasn't cutting it.
March 24th
I started beaten down and wasted youth tonight. I really just listened to it and muted tracks and doubled others. i was trying to give it a little bit more oomf and i got a rough version of what i wanted out of them. i bounced them out and burned them to cd to listen to them on my shitty cd player to see what i was going to need to add and take down. There was too much bass in general so i'll turn that down in my later mixes.
March 18th
I couldn't stick to my monday regiment of working on songs last night because it was St. Patricks day and i ended up at the bar. I went back to working on paranoia. I put compression on the master fader and bounced it out and took it to my cd player. It sounded fine but it seemed like i was getting some phase distortion. I turned down the reverb that i set up and it sounded fine.
March 10th through 16th
SPRING BREAK... WOOO!
March 9th
Set up reverb on paranoia and retaliation. The vocals sounded great but i needed to cover up the parts where the vocals weren't sustaining. I doubled the gang vocals on paranoia because it sounded weak on the mix. I bused that through the aux channel that i set up for main vox and it sounds great. I also bounced out my rough mix of retaliation and let the band listen to it.
March 6th
I started on all the tracks and set some of the general levels on the songs. I set up aux tracks for all the songs and doubled bass and bass drum because they sounded pretty lame. I got rid of all the excess tracks so i could clean up the mix window and make it look better. I set up some groups on all the tracks i doubled and paired those together so it would balance out better.
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