Hello all,
I have an album worth of tracks by an old band that I’d like to finally get mixed. The tracks are now 8 years old and were recorded in nuendo (I think). They were, to be brutally honest, badly recorded and are quite fragmented. The drums were badly midified in the box after recording. The organisation of the files is a mess just because the original studio was not really run by a logical mind. On top of that most of the songs have 1 or two tracks per instrument and a couple of vocal tracks then 40 keyboard tracks..
Recognising the challenge, I’m wondering if there are people who can do this kind of thing remotely...I’d like to get this collection of songs finished and finally put to bed.
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I would also be very happy for others to have a go as well as me.
mix challenge? Always need material for that!.
However the main issue was really getting anyone else in the band interested. In fact the response was mostly negative so I came to the conclusion it would be a fairly pointless labour of love (and expense) for me, and I wouldn’t expect anyone else to expend their time on that basis.
So thanks all for the interest and support.
It sounds a lot like there was a fair bit of indecision when recording, which has resulted in option paralysis.
A single rendered stem would be coming out at about 60meg per stem, so file size is not really a problem these days, but expecting every recorded part to be present in the final mix will be unrealistic.
There is a fair bit of satisfaction to be had from having a finished track / album out in the wild, and it has taken me 18 months from publication, to finally see my last effort showing in the PRS register, but it is nice to see that as the end of a journey, completion.
If I was the songwriter of the songs, I would have added incentive, as a poorly recorded version is still a valuable asset, but there will not be much recognition of the drummer- for example.
All about the song, and effort spent on releasing a good one is not time wasted.
With that in mind, it can be easier to be less attached to a bad recording, and it can be seen as a demo stage.