MIXING IN THE MAGICK

Every time I mix an album, I realize I made some kind of mistake during recording. It's amazing, considering I have been recording for so many years. I suppose it's a result of only recording once per year or so, since it takes so long for me to compose songs. The biggest problem I always have is with the guitar sound. I can't for the life of me determine why it sounds perfect when I am recording it, then so different when mixing the album. Especially since I usually have the drums recorded by that time.


It's important to have some skulls around. Reminds you of your mortality.

A mistake I made in the past was to record a complete song, before moving onto the the next song. That always resulted in an inconsistent sound across the whole album. I've finally made the effort to record all of each instrument for each song during the same general time period. That is, I record guitar tracks for all songs before moving on to all Bass tracks for all songs, etc. This seems to work fine, but it takes longer, since I have to keep practicing all the songs in between the recording sessions so I don't forget anything. I also like to record the hardest songs last, so I have more time to practice those while recording the easy songs.



2021 Update:

When Bitter Spring Sleeps "Transmigration" is available now at PaganFlames.com and Bandcamp.