September 08, 2003
New tyre service track
A new track, they happen every so often, is on the Holloway Tyre Service site (this site, kinda). It is called Uh Oh (I think David Bryne did a song called this and it is much better than mine) and at the time of writing the mix is very slightly wrong - the vocal is just a little too low in the mix. This is more noticeable on speakers than headphones. It could be a product of the processing.
Once I have a mix set up in Deck I mix down to disk then play the mix from Soundedit back into Deck via the mixing desk - where I do what I think of as a mastering (although some professional geek with probably tell me I'm wrong) which passes the song through a 7 band graphic eq. Then I mix down the two tracks from Deck again to a stereo mix. And then I run it through Mpegger to make a 192kbps MP3 file. Phew. No wonder then that a bit of vocal can get lost. Although its more likely that the mix was a little wrong in the first place.
The end of the track is the computers contribution. The file was a little corrupt on the end of the Deck files. On mix down it revealed a whole heap of white noise and stuff - which had come from the drums somehow - so I left some of this on. I couldn't get that noise if I wanted. Oh, and the mix is a touch quiet. I'll fix this tonight, so chances are by the time you read this, the new improved mix will be there. Look out for the lesser mix too - just the acoustic guitar and beeps.
www.hollowaytyreservice.com/music.html
PostScript (22.29):
The new file is mixed and in placed, and an altogether better mix. I tried to make the lesser, acoustic mix, but it didn't sound very good. Less is more.