i’m finally starting to mix down the songs that i have recorded so i can leave them behind for others and start on new things once more. it’s going okay so far, but i really have some nasty clipping on my least awful bass take on “Ten Silver Needles”. i might have to redo it. i think i probably either didn’t route the signal through the compressor/limiter when i tracked it, or i didn’t use enough limiter. you’d be surprised how out of control a bass can get without heaps of compression.
also, i found that i really do need to have 2 tracks of harmony acoustic guitar, which means i now have to have 9 tracks on an 8 track machine. and i hate bouncing when i hadn’t intended to from the get-go. it leaves me less space to fool around. for instance, there’s a part where the lyric goes “one lonely guitar, one lonely string…” and i wanted to pull down the rhythm guitars and just leave the harmony parts up (yes, i know it’s neither one guitar nor less than 12 strings in total – at least it’s apreggiated); now i’ll have to print it with level changes – which means i’d be better off doing effects in one sweep, since this is the last time i’ll be able to control them individually. still, i can do this.
