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Making a Recording (Part 2)

This article is the continuation of this article

Ok as expected things have taken longer than predicted but better late than never here is the second installment of this series on making a recording.

I have now mixed the sound a fair bit by doing the following:

Drum parts are recorded with many microphones with mics on each separate drum as well as overhead mics.
So one thing that can make a big difference is to remove the silence (not really silent) in between the drum strikes. This way you get Bass drum tracks with only bass drum sound on them not the bleed through of other drums like the snare etc.

There has also been a fair bit added to the recording. There are now 6 separate vocal tracks. There are also ghost parts played on the electric guitar. Ghost parts are used as place holders for other parts in this case the electric guitar is standing in for saxaphone. In September I will replace some of these parts with horns and add a solo in the middle part. Anyway here is how our track sounds now. . .  .

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