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After finally finishing up recording all the tracks, Chris and I sat in the control room to do a spot check and really rough mixdown of the four songs. Aref sat in as well. This was actually a pretty short mixdown -- none of us intended this to be the final cut. I just wanted a copy that I could take with me to listen to a whole bunch of times and make notes on what I wanted to do when we regroup for the formal mixdown. Still, he and I did some small tweaking as we went and made a few notes for the next time. Chris had tweaked the mix for Waiting For Rain the night before on his own, and it already set up pretty well.
Afterwards, we went out into Aref's car and plopped in the CD to take a listen on normal speakers -- listening to a mix through studio monitors is a bit deceptive. The sound coming from a monitor set is so pure that you can hear everything exactly as it is recorded (which is what you want when your working on the mix). However, most people don't listen to music through studio monitors. The natural coloration of average speakers needs to be taken into account when mixing down tracks.
Things sounded really boomy and bass heavy, but I think that might just be Aref's settings. I'll be listening to the disc quite a few times through several different systems to try and get a good feel on what's going on.
Posted by Casper at February 29, 2004 04:23 PM