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Band Mix Project Todd Martin
Each Day It Gets Better
DAY 1 BED TRACKS
BEAT DETECTIVE & ELASTIC AUDIO
DAY 1 MIX My goals for this mix is to use beat detective and elastic audio to even
out and balance the performance with a click track for alignment. Identify the meter and get the BPM using beat detective. Practice editing techniques, snap to grid, beat detective, elastic audio,
parallel processing, aux track effects, comping, mixing and mastering. 1st I organized the tracks in sections, groups, playlists, and color coding. 2nd did a basic balance and got some levels… After that I organized the drums to do snap to grid editing creating new
audio tracks for the new drums… Now I used the kick drum with tad-transient, checking snare & hi-hat. 2nd pass I tabbed without transient, using break feature with all drums
in a group. Now I drop the sections on the new audio/grid, checking and editing as I
go. I'm going to strip silence the kick drum and snare drums to put on aux
tracks with effects… Snare top reverb for a little spice Kick bottom with low 40+Hz tone for some punch with a little bomb-
factory after EQing If I have time I'll do some elastic audio on the bass track and some of
the other tracks until next session…photos
DAY 2 RECORD RHYTHM INSTRUMENTS
COMP VOCALS & EDIT
DAY 2 MIX On the 2nd day I focused on elastic audio the rest of the bass,
some percussion and some drums. After cleaning up the rest of the tracks, and organizing playlists, I
finished quantizing using elastic audio moving on to the Vocal tracks...
I organized vocal and guitars in groups, added some plug-ins. Today I began to EQ, gate, and add some reverb and later
compression. Put on a master track for mastering/EQ later. Now I begin to organize my vocals, setting up playlists for
comping and editing. Today I comped most of the lead vocals and some of the
background vocals after editing and elastic audio the other tracks.
At the end of today's session, I start to do a rough mix, with levels, solo/groups, panning, EQ, and time-based effects.
I like the bombfactory compressor, a little reverb here and there, some gating for noises & hums, and a little limiting on the master track to avoid clipping.
DAY 3 RECORD VOCALS
STEVE
EDIT TRACKS & START MIX
DAY 3 MIX Today I made several backup copies of PT session, and made more notes. I focused on Vocals today making a duet, and cleaned up some comping
adding reverb on AUX tracks, for the background vox bridge & verses… After that I deleted unused empty tracks in the vox & keys tracks, also got
rid of the CLIX hide & inactive Earlier today I EQd the guitars rolling off the lows and highs, also doing
the opposite in the bass My goal for today was to focus on finishing the Vocals and EQing the
guitars, after that clean up any loose ends, vocals still need more work I also wanted to work on levels, plug-ins and panning too. note self…start making nasty face as mix sounds a little better each
day….? Also only use 1 compressor on each track not 2, or none at all I had a little space at the beginning of the recording, rather than moving
everything or cutting off the lead-space I added a piece of a remix I did last term with some samples, tones, and reason/rewire-PT
it works a little like a DJ intro and fits nicely with the bass tone Cleaned up some of the keyboard stuff and did a little elastic audio to
tighten things up a little Tried to match the snare sound to the sample… Finished off finessing the EQs and compressors, getting rid of the
2nd/extra compressors adding maxims/limiters to all the drum tracks as Rob suggested, sounds much better.
DAY 4 RECORD ALL OTHER INSTRUMENTS
MIX MASTER BOUNCE
DAY 4 MIX Today I'm cleaning up and editing the rest of the VOCAL tracks, vox-duet with
drums gate/cut/edit, also use some other filters and de-Essers Next check overall levels and individually each track Already cleaned up the SNR/KICK drums edits and tracks double thump is the
player not my edits, not sure what to do, leave it alone Now I'm opening up the levels at chorus 3 and more at the Bridge When I get to chorus 4, I'm going to bring the levels back down and a bit
more at the CODA to the end. Did some automation for visual effects 'cause it looks cool like a real mixing
dude? Guitar player is quite good, but I'm not sure his playing really fits the style so
I tried to add some Rock' effects EQ, and PAN them in a semi-circle for effect, definitely bring him down in the mix.
Now I need to listen to the MIX on speakers, NEVE or other rooms??? I changed my fades to power from gain, and added a little S curve at the top
of cross fades to smooth things out a bit. I really brought down the 2nd duet vocal in the mix for a more live feeling. Also cleared unused tracks for more space… Got rid of room micas and kept the room mono bussed to the OH reverbs to
bus-9 Checked for all hidden and inactive tracks to removed or silence. Edited out the end cymbal rings on the hidden room micas did some
levels/automation and panning I cleaned up piano ending with longer fade, panning and levels, little longer
than other tracks.
BETTER YET……..…?
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