This week was me mixing our final version of the song in our own way and still including the very basics of mixing.
Some of the things I focused on will mixing:
- Panning
- Levels
- Compression
- EQ
- Reverb
The first thing I did to the final recording was to adjust the levels of certain instruments, for example for me the most important part of a song to me is vocals and this case the vocals were extremely quiet and had to brought up to the same level as everything else. After I arranged the levels I then worked on fixing the drum sounds to make each drum actually sound like a drum. I thought that the over-all track sounded a little to dry and need to be filled with reverb, I do feel that I may have over done the reverb and if I was to do this project again I would take that in to consideration. After adding reverb to everything I then worked on panning all the tracks that needed it, overheads, top and bottom of certain drums, DI Vs. the real instruments, keyboard, claps etc.. When working on the claps in this song I wanted to make them sound like they were part of the song which I found extremely difficult as I haven’t mixed something with claps in before. I had to adjust the EQ several times and add some of its own reverb.
One of the thing that I found difficult was balancing the level out of the whole song, which meant going back and bringing levels up and down all over the place. Personally I feel I created an equal balance of instruments and made the right decision bringing the vocals forward.