WHAT WAS PLANNED
Incorporate drum track into Cubase project.
WHAT WAS ACHIEVED
We copied the reason data to the same folder as the Cubase project. We opened the file in Reason 6 and then used re-wire to attach Reason to the Cubase project. Due to the common use of the reference track in Reason and Cubase, the drum track synchronised perfectly with the guitar elements previously recorded on Cubase.
We created and labelled a marker track to make it easier to see and navigate around the structure of the song.
Some of the drum sounds were too loud. We edited the raw MIDI data within reason to reduce the velocity value of the drum sounds which were too loud.
We listened to several of Mike's guitar solos played simultaneously. It was way too much and over the top but we all liked the squealing guitar sound in the middle of the guitar solo when simultaneously played by 4 guitars. We cut out that section on all 4 guitar tracks to keep for the final mix.
We started work on creating a background synthesiser pad sound. We selected the Divinity patch on the Spector virtual synthesiser to create some slowly changing chord sounds.
Bob backed up all Cubase and Reason data files to an external 500GB hard disk drive. Bob will backup all data to a separate folder on the backup hard drive for each session at the end of each studio session. Doing this will enable us to go back and retrieve data from any past session if data is lost or accidentally deleted in future studio sessions.
NEXT STEPS
Record rhythm guitar. Re-record guitar solo with less gain on the distortion sound.
