December 07, 2004
it has begun
Yesterday was my first day of mixing the 'words and voices' album. I rearranged my entire house to create an acoustically more appropriate and physically more comfortable situation for this mixing to occur. And it paid off. My favorite mixing engineer and I spent much of yesterday jumping into these songs and, well, making them better.
We only actually got to two songs, which was somewhat disappointing from a volume perspective, but we were able to make some really significant improvements on these two which more than made up for that. Voices are very difficult to fit into mixes no matter what, but when you have a dozen untrained voices recorded in varying degrees of fidelity on 20 simultaneous tracks, things become slightly confusing for a non-engineer like myself.
I probably have another three days of mixing and then one day of mastering and then, maybe, it will be off to the presses for cd number two.
