All getting a little bit stressful
A while ago, I mentioned the wise words of Amanda Palmer where she says "Music doesn't need to matter when you don't think about it" (or something to that effect) and while I tried to adhere to those words, I just couldn't do it. The mixes meant everything to me, every waking moment when at work, asleep, taking a crap, it's all I've been capable of thinking of.
When I was forced into a situation this weekend where I wasn't able to do as much as I wanted, I felt I have actually done more. I spent Friday with Peter taking pictures which I hope to be able to put to future use, but then spent the rest of the night at Judith's as I'm hoping to move into the spare room of her house next month. On top of that, I called called into work to do a 5.1 surround check on a game.
Back at home with no sleep, feeling rough as fuck, I struggle to continue mixing. Something I just dread. Made worse by the fact my housemate is ill and therefore I cannot really have any volume to mix with (though probably still driving her mad). In some ways, I hope to catch her cold because it would mean time off work, but that would also backfire as it means my hearing wouldn't be any good.
So rather thank just getting bitter or pissed off, I just thought "Okay, well what CAN I do" and opted to look at the songs that are nearly finished. Well these included 'It Felt Like Forever', 'Compassion' (which I only started mixing on Thursday) and also 'Get It Right' and 'Short Term Memory'. They all felt nearly finished and I was able to tweak them to perfection by listening on my monitors, sending them to my Mission speakers and listening on headphones. If they sounded great on all, then I bounced them down.
Okay, so there's a few things I'm still dissatisfied with, for example some of the breaths on '...Forever' are slightly out of time at the beginning and the mix is quite muddy on 'Short Term...' but when I think about it - what CAN I do? Not a lot. Does it sound absolutely bloody awful? Not really. So I stopped thinking about it and just bounced it down. They're never going to be 100% perfect and I don't have the time to be a perfectionist.
It's only when playing my songs to others that I get really nervous and paranoid (when I'm in the room at the same time), but when I listen on my own, some of it sounds great. I still have two SERIOUS problem child tracks - 'Pull Your Fingers Out' (abysmal chorus vocals) and 'Inane is My Name' (have to mix 18 slightly out of time vocal tracks)... but I'm honestly going to leave them until last. If everything else is sounding good enough (and I reckon I can finish everything else in a day or two) then it'll only be those last songs to worry about and I can stop thinking about the other songs... then hopefully it won't matter.
When I was forced into a situation this weekend where I wasn't able to do as much as I wanted, I felt I have actually done more. I spent Friday with Peter taking pictures which I hope to be able to put to future use, but then spent the rest of the night at Judith's as I'm hoping to move into the spare room of her house next month. On top of that, I called called into work to do a 5.1 surround check on a game.
Back at home with no sleep, feeling rough as fuck, I struggle to continue mixing. Something I just dread. Made worse by the fact my housemate is ill and therefore I cannot really have any volume to mix with (though probably still driving her mad). In some ways, I hope to catch her cold because it would mean time off work, but that would also backfire as it means my hearing wouldn't be any good.
So rather thank just getting bitter or pissed off, I just thought "Okay, well what CAN I do" and opted to look at the songs that are nearly finished. Well these included 'It Felt Like Forever', 'Compassion' (which I only started mixing on Thursday) and also 'Get It Right' and 'Short Term Memory'. They all felt nearly finished and I was able to tweak them to perfection by listening on my monitors, sending them to my Mission speakers and listening on headphones. If they sounded great on all, then I bounced them down.
Okay, so there's a few things I'm still dissatisfied with, for example some of the breaths on '...Forever' are slightly out of time at the beginning and the mix is quite muddy on 'Short Term...' but when I think about it - what CAN I do? Not a lot. Does it sound absolutely bloody awful? Not really. So I stopped thinking about it and just bounced it down. They're never going to be 100% perfect and I don't have the time to be a perfectionist.
It's only when playing my songs to others that I get really nervous and paranoid (when I'm in the room at the same time), but when I listen on my own, some of it sounds great. I still have two SERIOUS problem child tracks - 'Pull Your Fingers Out' (abysmal chorus vocals) and 'Inane is My Name' (have to mix 18 slightly out of time vocal tracks)... but I'm honestly going to leave them until last. If everything else is sounding good enough (and I reckon I can finish everything else in a day or two) then it'll only be those last songs to worry about and I can stop thinking about the other songs... then hopefully it won't matter.
posted by Angelchrome at 10:02 pm
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