This is how I go forward with my music - the real story from November 2017 and towards the album release but it took Volume 2 to get the whole way there. Creating, editing and mixing music is a complicated effort but loads of fun.
For all you who wa...
After a nice walk along the snowy beach in Ystad Sweden with my husband, I am back at work. He has vacation for a few days, so I won't be doing much mixing....
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Above: Yes you see crazy Swedes in robes on and bare legs, waving to you when it is in the middle of a snowy day in March! Ystad Salsjöbad is Swedens most prestigious spa/hotell, and I guess they feel they have to linger there to get their money's worth. We just walked by for free and took their picture.
The Octopus I think the best way to describe being an indie musician is like being an octopus. You have to have eight arms to get everything done. You need to use skills simultaneously: musical ability, graphics agility, market know-how, teachability; networking... so many traits. It is easy to give up and it is a full-time job. I hope I can delegate some of the things I've been doing as things start to roll...but for now I have to do it all and first of all, I need to clean up.
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Snow by the beach today
Spring Clean Up
Clean up in the mix for The Vine: I will spending some time re-sending my tracks, adjusting plugins and grouping them differently in order to get the sound I want. I'm cleaning up now...using the video up on top from the jazz musician and mixer Bob Mc Caroll. Thanks Bob! The idea is to copy the effects auxiliaries that I am sending the background vocals to so that all of the ones that are on the left have reverb echoes that go towards the right and all of those on the right have echoes on the left. This will widen the vocals more, even on ear buds.
If I get this figured out, I am going to go back to the other songs and clean them up too with this method before sending them to mastering. Nice! In the future I will probably create a template that I can start with at the beginning of each new project. One with a gain knob at the beginning of each plugin area and divided to receive signals in a logical way. Right now I am cleaning up two years of doing things on the fly. It gets better, the more you understand. Don't give up folks!
