The mix actually sounded pretty dang clean, especially for how fast everything was done. I made some copies because what I came up with was fun, if not ultra songwriterish and crafted to ultimate perfection. This was an experiment project, basically. Later when I dubbed the thing to disc to send to get a few copies made, I did a little compression via the Behringer’s compressor, and left it alone otherwise. Mastering/Editing:There wasn’t really a mastering or editing stage, other than, once I’d set up my mix, I took the Behringer Ultrafex and tweaked the overall sound like I like to do.It probably took an hour or two to do the whole 20 minute mix. The Rebirth song was pretty well balanced, the vocals didn’t seem CRUCIAL anyway *laugh*, so I went through a couple passes, did weird things to most of the vocals like telephoning or using metallic effects, just experimenting with the Behringer’s effects, really, automating the drum channels to sort of move a little bit so they’d sit, and the same thing with the vocals, and ran it. Recorded that and a couple of backing vocals onto Darwin (mostly in the beginning), and then mixed down. I tried to just have some various voices and experiment with saying things like I’d never said them. There was an organ solo of some kind in there, various little spice ups, not too crazy.Then I spent a little while coming up with various little poems and a little rhyme and even a little melody in that section, about a metaphorical monkey, who I pictured as a sort of cracked-out Curious George, and set up the Shure mic, and just winged it. In the beginning it was some airy thing, I played improv’d stuff, made sure it was all in time in Cakewalk, and then recorded it to Darwin. Then I set up a single sequence, and where there were relatively major changes in the sections on the Rebirth song, I created a new drum pattern, which I recorded in stereo on two tracks of Darwin, to sort of spice up the drums. I lined the Darwin tracks up to where they’d be in sync with Cakewalk. Then I just played back the Rebirth song to Darwin, and took Darwin downstairs. wav file, so I brought the 8 track harddisk recorder Darwin (by EMU) upstairs and took the 1/8th inch stereo out from the computer’s normal soundcard into 2 tracks of Darwin with a Y cable. Because it was brand new to me, I didn’t even KNOW that you could simply export things as a. I sat in my home, not in the studio, and played with the settings on Propellerhead’s Rebirth in realtime for around 20 minutes and let that be the basic foundation. Tracking:This 20 minute mix set was pretty much a one day project.Software: Propellerhead’s Rebirth, Cakewalk.Synths: Alesis S4, Boss DR660 Drum Machine.Outboard Processing: Internal to the Behringer mixer.Mixer: Behringer DDX3216 32 Channel Automated Digital Mixer.
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