On going progress with work

Unfortunately I set my soundcloud account to hide all the various versions of tracks that I uploaded and did not realise this. Here is the link to all the various stages of the mixes, all the mixes are dated with times, showing when they were uploaded. http://soundcloud.com/lukehitchen

Compleation of the tracks

All five tracks at this point are complete and the only additional alterations to them as of today will be simple mastering which will probably include a small amount of EQ just to even the mixes out.

All go.

From now till the 20th the focus will be on production. The tracks have been roughly mixed and are now being developed, so are having the treatment of Effects added if they are needed. And a focus on tightening the mixes up to improve their quality. The two main features of the Rock tracks are, Additional top end on the cymbals. De mudding of the mids and bussing a small amount bass, snare and kick to a highly compressed buss. The other three tracks have a focus on improving top end sparkle reducing boomy bass and any additional reverb.

A brief pause in work

Due to the dissertation hand in being imminent being very close little or no production will be done to the tracks. Till the 16th

Gangs and Elessar

The Same method was used as had been used with the classically based tracks, however the focus of these was to dirty the tracks up while maintain the clarity of them. for this I worked with the tracks solo'd to create the audio I was after then mixed it by either making room in the mix using EQ for the instrument or boosting the frequencies. The main problem I encountered the majority of the time with these tracks was de muddying the mixes. which is the main fault with Elessar still as it stands.

Georgia, Michael lynch and House Mixing

For the production aspect I grouped the tracks together so I did not work specifically on a single track and tire my ears out, so mixing was done between the tracks related closest to each other. The Process for mixing began with initally filtering the audio tracks as this helped remove and low end rumble and noise. The second stage was mixing with no additional affects, this then set the levels for the tracks. The focus was to mix the tracks so that they hovered around the 0dB level on the master track, so that the only additional compression on the final product would increase the level, rather than reduce the audio and affect the way in which the track sounded. After decent levels were achieved, the focus was defining the tracks, this began with drums if they were on the track and finished with vocals. A little compression was added to most of the tracks not to remove any performance aspects of the audio, but to reduce the range between the loudest audio on the track. Very little was used to bust the signal. Normalization was not used on the tracks as I had found with previous work, it increased Noise and often increased the amount of compression needed which was not what I intended as. I wanted to maintain performance aspects.

Post Production

All the tracks are now fully recorded and edited so april can be used to either continue post production or focus on this. Editing of Elessar and Gangs has alreadhy begun and the post production started. The house track is in the final leg of its production, and is the nearest to completion. georgia on my mind Michael Lynch has nad the audio edited but the post production is the main problem of post production.