Mixing our group’s sound track has been a great experience, having control and having your opinion on what it should sound like. Its definitely a time consuming process which I didn’t expect but fun at the same. This project was made up of twenty tracks; it included the drums, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, and piano and finally managed to fit in a lustful sound of a harp.
The guitar had a nice tangy sound at the beginning; it was record at the right level, no equalizer was used on this instrument apart from deceasing the level.Mixing the harp and strings was a complex task, the spring volumes were automated and the harps were paned, this separated the sounds more and gave it a nice rhyme. The harp recorded with the AKG 414 had a balanced sound but the harp recorded on DI had a high frequency hissing sound, but it was enhanced and the high frequency was removed by the EQ3 1BAND, both harp track were sent to a auxiliary track and levelled to -9.6 db. The strings were compressed with the Dyn3 compressor, low gain and high threshold so it doesn’t interfere with the vocals and harps.The piano sounded great but I added some compression so it can sound out more and layer up the other tracks and I also increase the db up a bit. The drums were levelled right apart from the snare, which I lowered the high frequency. I also increase the level of the drums. The acoustic guitar and the bass guitar levels increased a bit because it was the body of the track, after listening to with and with the solo I think it was great.
The vocals blended well with the instrument, the and s were cut from upper end of the frequency by using the EQ3 – 7BAND and a bit of reverb was added at low mix rate, the bass guitar has a nice rhymed sound the, D12 gave it that natural touch, the microphone picked up the low frequency incredibly well, using both DI and D12 produced a compressed effect to the sound.
Overall this has been a great experience and I enjoyed my contribution into this project, I had chance to play every role apart from playing an instrument, which I kind of felt worried about in the beginning but at end of the project I know what I will be focused on in studio and what areas needs to touched and practiced more the studio.