Team members present: Mike, Lee and Bob
What was planned
Start mixing 'Behind the Sun'
What was achieved
We first made some simple changes to the arrangement. We EQ'ed the gun shots to tone down the high frequencies to place them further back in the mix. We also EQ'ed the guitars. At this point Loz, our tutor, came into our room and we played him our rough mix. He liked our concept and arrangement of the track. However he wondered why we had toned down the reggae part of the track. We explained that it seemed to us that it did not fit well with the track. Loz thought that it could work really well but it conflicted with the style of the original drum track. He encouraged us to be bold and to embrace, and run, with our original concept.
We therefore stopped what we were doing and revisited the arrangement of the song. We found some reggae style drum loops in Reason. We exported these as wav files and imported them into our Cubase project to replace the original drum track where the reggae feel is introduced. Lee experimented with some new bass riffs using a virtual synth in Cubase. Having worked out a bass riff which works well we will need to re-record it using a bass guitar.
Next Steps
Bob to book the bass guitar for the evening session. Bob also booked out a fender guitar and a Shure SM57 mic in case we needed to re-record any other parts for 'Behind the Sun'.
Bob booked the Roland EF-303 effects processor for our evening session to allow pitch shifted delays to be added to the outro section of the 'Children' track. This will also let us demonstrate the use of external hardware processors.
