Digital Music Front

Archive for January, 2010

Another few months, another complete lack of posting. I have at least, not been entirely unproductive. I’ve been working on a track for a couple of months now. Actually its finished, and has been for a while, stuck in that same old post production loop. After an initially promising mix turned out to be completely gutless on a system with a decent sub, I tried cranking the bass up with disastrous results… distortion, mud, ick. So I got in a friend who is a professional sound engineer and a much more experienced producer than me to have a listen and help with the levels. He showed me a few tricks for making room in the mix for each sound and shit, but mostly he just told me to turn everything down and to cut rather than boost when trying to emphasise certain sounds.

So after a few 2 hour long sessions going thru the whole track from start to finish I’ve managed to get the levels under control. Now it just needs to be mastered, which apparently I have been going about all wrong. So I’m looking forward to getting that done, and this track being as good as it can be. As soon as I have the time that is…

Yeah, I moved house last week after getting notice to vacate my last apartment 2 weeks before christmas. Am now moved into a much nicer and more importantly larger house a bit further out of town. Sharing now, but at least its with my old housemate who I was actually able to live with reasonably easily and her new BF. Not quite fully moved in yet tho, studio is not set up as it were so it may be a few weeks before I get any more work done… who knows, maybe by the next time I post here I might have a track ready…