Mixing Pt 1

Fortunately I seem to be keeping to schedule, for once. My outline plan has been 'Finish writing songs in June, Record in July, Mix in August'.. well it's now the 1st August, I have finished recording all vocals and have begun mixing my tracks.

Frankly the very thought of it is just a mammoth task and even working on (what I believe) the easiest song to mix has shown weaknesses in the mix that I didn't notice before and so I'm automating like a fast automating guy. Actually I don't think 'Dead on Red' is far off but the vocals are heavily distorted, so they need to be rather loud in the mix to be intelligible, but I'm trying to do this without compromising the power of the music.

Likewise, my speakers are good for recording, but not so good for mixing as to get a better bass response, I need to go to my housemate's room upstairs to find out how loud it really is.

Tomorrow I will re-approach it and import a couple of songs (I'm thinking a combination of Deftones / Queens of the Stone Age and PJ Harvey) to the session for some A/B comparisons - which is the method I'll adhere to for all songs.

Hopefully I'll have this one in the bag by Thursday. It's not unrealistic, the hardest part is just beginning and I have begun.