The end is nigh
Just one song left to mix down tonight, and a final mastering session tomorrow to fix any remaining glitches, and I'll be done. How do professional recording engineers do this day in and day out? Even doing it a couple of hours a day my head sometimes feels like it's about to explode. At this point I'm starting to wonder if everything I'm doing is just making it all sound worse.
And there's always the unpleasant surprises, like the clipping on that vocal that somehow didn't get noticed during any of the preceding stages, and now it's too late to fix. Or wait, did I introduce that somehow with something I just did? *crawls back into mixing hell*
And there's always the unpleasant surprises, like the clipping on that vocal that somehow didn't get noticed during any of the preceding stages, and now it's too late to fix. Or wait, did I introduce that somehow with something I just did? *crawls back into mixing hell*
posted by Ryan at
9:24 AM
2 Comments:
In our case there was a series of closely spaced electronic glitches in the solo guitar intro to "Miss Eerie" that nobody noticed until the mastering session. (I think they were introduced in the final pre-master mix.) We fixed the worst of them, but it was tedious and expensive and the rest of them are still on the CD.
About fatigue, I hear a good chair, good monitors, and frequent breaks help. In case you haven't got those.
I have pretty good monitors, but I could *definitely* use a better chair.
With regard to the glitches that make it into the master, I try to console myself that most people won't even notice them.
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