All basic tracks done, all additional tracks done and 4 days of mixing ahead, Yihaah! We decided to do the mixing in Déstudio because we had such a great experience there recording our previous album. And to be honest, there’s this sweet and expensive mixing board that just sounds incredible…
Started the day loading all the tracks into pro-tools and making up a basic sound for the drums. It was great hearing the tracks again on these awesome studio-monitors after a month of i-pod playing: ear buds SUCK. Anyway, as everything was recorded and stored ‘dry’ we started with basic things like some compressing and EQ’in the drums and bass and finding a nice mix of the 2 bass channels and the 2 guitar-tracks for each guitar. Also had a nice challenge mixing vocals because there are quite a lot of tracks…
Mixing is tricky, and your ears can really play tricks on you, so we tried taking breaks as often as needed and not to overdo it the first days. “What’s that sound there… ” ” Do you here a whisper there?” ” Sounds like a dog barking…” and more non-sense… We kept the two ‘biggest’ tracks for our last days, filling up the entire 32 track mixing board… nice 
In the end it went quite smooth with a much appreciated helping hand from Dirk, the owner/producer/engineer/hero from Déstudio.
THIS SUCKER IS READY for mastering, which will be done by Adam Douches @ Westwest side studio’s in New York. He’s this awesome pro who worked with numerous “big” bands so obviously we were/are very happy with his work on our previous album -
- If all goes well Sins And Sounds should be finished before our release on 11October 2008 !!! !!! !!! -
r&r
::jelle::
