Recording; You're ready?? Part Final

So now here you are Mr. Big Shot Recording Artist..

You have all your Music Recorded now? Well you can do many things from here. The simplest one is to fork out more hard earned cash and buy yourself Recording software with Mixing capabilities or fork out even more hard earned cash and get someone to do the mixing for you. If you were thinking of saving some cash from the start though you could of just did the first thing I mentioned here... Buy a good PC/Laptop software like Cakewalk or Cubase SE. There are many Recording software types that you can buy. I personally prefer Cubase SE, but that's just me.

But I'm not typing in all this stuff now just when you've spent all your money on Music Recorded in the studio now...

Back to where we left off then

You have gotten all of your ideas together and have written everything down on how and what you want to have done with your fresh Recordings. On top of all that you are sticking to a budget right? Always give yourself plus or minus a couple of hundred dollars. You just never now what you'll change your mind on or might want to add a little here and there.

Besides all I hope you have set the terms of your sessions. It's always a good thing to talk all terms before getting into the mixing studio and then second guess everything or think later on "Hey that's not what we agreed upon"!
Always get everything in writing as in:

1. Agree on a price per hour; per Recorded song; per Album. Talk and agree.
2. Keep a schedule and stick to it. Set time and reserve it.
3. What is to be included, example; set up time

You have also picked out who will Mix your Recording and put all your crazy ideas onto what ever type of recording standard you would like to have, Analog or digital? Usually digital is use now more frequently because everything is done the new way of coarse and analog you'll spend a little more on the end when you have to put everything through a final mixing phase etc. Here are a few articles on Analog vs. Digital. My opinion I like analog better than digital then transferred to Digital, why? If you do all of your hard mixing/editing in analog it (to me) seems to keep it's true full sound and when pressed through into digital, the trauma of it all isn't as harsh; If done correctly of coarse. Now if you mix in digital and end up moving too many of your Sound Recordings around e.i. compressing and editing etc. You end up sometimes with little hisses and clicks that normally you can hear right off bat. This is mostly true thought if you get someone who is inexperienced on both side of coin.

Now when mixing/editing run through each of your Recordings and jot down where you want what type of expression, effect etc. This will make things easier for the editing/ mixing engineer to see it the way you want it. Remember all of your over- lay's, as in doubling guitars, vocals and clean recordings as I call them (Recordings without bad tuning, weird noises etc) have been done so you may use them and not have to spend more money correcting all those problems Now!

As I've said before, don't spend too much time on one piece too long if you can't get it right in this crucial mixing/editing stage. Move on and refresh and focus on your ideas for another day. This stage is the most expensive and time flies when your in the cube as I call it, you'll just end up disappointed and have to rework the things you tried to fix anyway... Most likely of coarse.

Remember to always bring blank CD's so you can burn your new mix and listen to the end result of the day. Like I said earlier, you want to listen to your Recorded Mix in different types of CD players.

In closing just remember keep your thoughts focused and do the brainstorming before you go into the Recording studio and or Mixing/Editing room. Not only will you end up with something you wanted in the end result but you'll end up spending less.

Good luck
TONE

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