This week are main intention was to tidy up the mix so that everyone had a good base to start from for mixing. We decided this as its industry practice for if you were getting your track mixed by someone else.
We started off by setting all of the tracks outputs to 1 and 2 on the desk. We did this because anyone mixing in the box would only have 2 outputs left and right. Once we had done this we had to redo all of the panning for the tracks as resetting the output had removed it. We panned the overheads left and right as well as panning the guitars. We left most things in the middle so that we could interpret the piece, as we wanted. Next we looked at cutting some silence out of tracks such as the vocal track. This was part of removing everything in the project we didn’t need including guide tracks. After we had all of this sorted we then looked into crossfading all the audio we had recorded using the pre-roll feature. Crossfading these together just make’s for a clean transition. Once we were all happy with the tracks we listened through a few times and did a very rough level mix. This was just so that all the instruments started at around the same level. The final step was colour coding the tracks and placing them in a logical order within the project. Tidying up the project like this makes things easier when mixing, as everything is ready to be mixed.