Worked on the mix of the main song some more last night. I rendered separate tracks for each drum instrument from Beatcraft and then we worked on getting just the sound on all of them. What we do is use a combined drum render for tracking then go back to fix any drum parts that need to be tightened up. When we have it right we render each drum to its own track to give us control of each. You can watch a video on this but clicking the link in the last sentence.
We also started to plan out the panning of the song. I'm going to be doing a video on panning drums so watch out for that. It's amazing... it took us 2 days to track the song... and will probably take at least 2 weeks to mix.
Mixing is really an art form in my humble opinion. You seem to have it right on your studio monitors when playing on your DAW. The you mix down to high quality WAV that sounds right. But the you listen on your iPod and it's missing important sonic info. It's a incremental process but it's really my favorite part of it.
It's cool to mix with my son too. He knows how he wants it to sound but is also learning. Looking forward to putting in more mix time over the holiday weekend.
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