Mixing.

So today was the first day of mixing. It's a pretty daunting task - think about the logistics for a second...we have thirteen songs, each one around 3-4 minutes long and each one contains around 60 tracks of audio, ranging from each individual drum on Kev's kit - to every guitar part that Dan could come up with, vocals etc. That's roughly 800 tracks.

Each of these tracks can then have a pretty limitless array of effects added to it in any order - reverb, echo, eq, panning etc. to make it sound different. We have to decide how we want each one to sound, how loud it should be in comparison to the other 60-70 tracks that all need, what effects we should apply.

Discoveries on first day:

- Working with cheaper/free software means you have to work harder to achieve a better sound. This takes longer. Frustration is inevitable.


- Mixing is not a group activity. We have one PC running the whole show, when you're at the controls the call is yours on what the fuck is going on.

- Dan and me work very differently. He thinks things through and takes time to make changes. I wanna do everything faster and barely think at all. Neither is right or wrong.

- I need more than a few hours sleep before attempting to spend the day mixing. I didn't make a change today, I just stood at the back of the room and said things that I hoped were helpful but I suspect were just annoying.

I am gonna go sleep. We're gonna make it kid, we just need a run up for the big ones.

Max x