Recording an album is quite a process. Since Dan and I recorded a couple of weeks ago, the project has undergone a number of stages. First of all, Carmon (co-producer/engineer) provided me with an edited version. He neatly seams together all of the punch-ins which smooths out the flow. Also in this project, the organ we used was 10 cents below A440 pitch. So he had to bring that up as well. Once the edit phase was approved, then we mixed. Mixing is subjective. It's about how what's been recorded melds together - what becomes foreground? background? what is the overall effect trying to be created? That's when the vibe between the artist/producer/engineer is vital because so much of it is about judgment calls and remembering objectives for the project.
Yesterday, we finished mixing and began mastering. For the 217 projects the challenge is that we record each album as one file (as opposed to 18 different files strung together): every change has huge ramifications.
We're almost there...it's really close...
Here's Carmon and I...
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