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As this album is also part of my MA (I say this like it's a secondary thing, bad Gabriel) project, one of the main elements of the project is to meet with my supervisor and discuss the project in its current state and to get advice on where I can go from here. My supervisor is Richard Liggins, whom was the one to interview me for the original BA, five years ago. He was also the one to mark my previous album effort (A Place Called Nowhere - which most people will probably never hear). So I figured he'd be a good candidate to see just how far I've come with this latest offering.
I played him all 10 songs, kind of abruptly skimming through them to give him an idea of how everything sounds in general. He picked up on a lot of the things I was hoping he would. He said the songs were much better written and interesting than previous stuff I have submitted to him. He also mentioned he really liked the recordings and improved my intergration of synthetic and real sounds... but the real task will be in the mixing. It's all very bass heavy at the moment and needs to be brighter - but he liked a lot of the rawness too (much better than over producing).
One of the biggest problems (well not really a problem, but something that needs to be taken strongly into account) is that all the tracks are very different to each other and there isn't really a defining sound that is me. This is mostly attributed to the fact I have worked with many musicians on this album and they have all intigrated their own styles to this... of course this is what I wanted but I can see the potential difficulties when creating a musical identity.
One of the ways this can be resolved, he said, is to simply turn my vocals up more in the mix (ho ho ho) and create some kind of consistency in the mixing. Not entirely sure how I'm going to do this, but I'm sure it'll come to me.
Basically, the best thing I can do when I mix in August is to remove myself from the songs as songs and just treat it as a piece of music - or better yet - an array of sound that needs to have a nice balance of low, mid and high frequencies. This will be difficult, but of course I will do what needs to be done.
And as for the vocals? Well his feedback was "it's just going to be a love it or hate it scenario, and that's just something you'll have to live with. Don't try to hard to impress everybody".. and he's definitely right. Still, a little Auto-Tune or Melodyne work can't hurt a bit, right?
Two more days in the studio this weekend and then that'll be it. I feel a lot better about things now.
I played him all 10 songs, kind of abruptly skimming through them to give him an idea of how everything sounds in general. He picked up on a lot of the things I was hoping he would. He said the songs were much better written and interesting than previous stuff I have submitted to him. He also mentioned he really liked the recordings and improved my intergration of synthetic and real sounds... but the real task will be in the mixing. It's all very bass heavy at the moment and needs to be brighter - but he liked a lot of the rawness too (much better than over producing).
One of the biggest problems (well not really a problem, but something that needs to be taken strongly into account) is that all the tracks are very different to each other and there isn't really a defining sound that is me. This is mostly attributed to the fact I have worked with many musicians on this album and they have all intigrated their own styles to this... of course this is what I wanted but I can see the potential difficulties when creating a musical identity.
One of the ways this can be resolved, he said, is to simply turn my vocals up more in the mix (ho ho ho) and create some kind of consistency in the mixing. Not entirely sure how I'm going to do this, but I'm sure it'll come to me.
Basically, the best thing I can do when I mix in August is to remove myself from the songs as songs and just treat it as a piece of music - or better yet - an array of sound that needs to have a nice balance of low, mid and high frequencies. This will be difficult, but of course I will do what needs to be done.
And as for the vocals? Well his feedback was "it's just going to be a love it or hate it scenario, and that's just something you'll have to live with. Don't try to hard to impress everybody".. and he's definitely right. Still, a little Auto-Tune or Melodyne work can't hurt a bit, right?
Two more days in the studio this weekend and then that'll be it. I feel a lot better about things now.
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