1. Over the course of 4 days, the document describes Todd Martin's process of mixing a band project. This included using beat detective and elastic audio to align tracks, comping vocals, editing instruments, and adjusting levels and effects. 2. On the second day, Todd focused on elastic audio for bass, percussion and drums. He organized and edited vocals and guitars, adding EQ, compression, and reverb. 3. On the third day, Todd recorded additional vocals and cleaned up comping. He EQ'd guitars and focused on levels, plugins and panning. 4. On the final day, Todd mixed and mastered the track, cleaning up vocals and autom

1. Band Mix Project Todd Martin
Each Day It Gets Better

2. DAY 1 BED TRACKS

3. BEAT DETECTIVE & ELASTIC AUDIO

4. DAY 1 MIX
 My goals for this mix is to use beat detective and elastic audio to even out
and balance the performance with a click track for alignment.
 Identify the meter and get the BPM using beat detective.
 Practice editing techniques, snap to grid, beat detective, elastic
audio, parallel processing, aux track effects, comping, mixing and mastering.
 1st I organized the tracks in sections, groups, playlists, and color coding.
 2nd did a basic balance and got some levels…
 After that I organized the drums to do snap to grid editing creating new audio
tracks for the new drums…
 Now I used the kick drum with tad-transient, checking snare & hi-hat.
 2nd pass I tabbed without transient, using break feature with all drums in a
group.
 Now I drop the sections on the new audio/grid, checking and editing as I go.
 I'm going to strip silence the kick drum and snare drums to put on aux tracks
with effects…
 Snare top reverb for a little spice
 Kick bottom with low 40+Hz tone for some punch with a little bomb-factory
after EQing
 If I have time I'll do some elastic audio on the bass track and some of the
other tracks until next session…photos

5. DAY 2 RECORD RHYTHM INSTRUMENTS

6. COMP VOCALS & EDIT

7. DAY 2 MIX
 On the 2nd day I focused on elastic audio the rest of the
bass, some percussion and some drums.
 After cleaning up the rest of the tracks, and organizing
playlists, I finished quantizing using elastic audio moving on
to the Vocal tracks...
 I organized vocal and guitars in groups, added some plug-ins.
 Today I began to EQ, gate, and add some reverb and later
compression. Put on a master track for mastering/EQ later.
 Now I begin to organize my vocals, setting up playlists for
comping and editing.
 Today I comped most of the lead vocals and some of the
background vocals after editing and elastic audio the other
tracks.
 At the end of today's session, I start to do a rough mix, with
levels, solo/groups, panning, EQ, and time-based effects.
 I like the bombfactory compressor, a little reverb here and
there, some gating for noises & hums, and a little limiting on
the master track to avoid clipping.

8. DAY 3 RECORD VOCALS
 STEVE

9. EDIT TRACKS & START MIX

10. DAY 3 MIX
 Today I made several backup copies of PT session, and made more notes.
 I focused on Vocals today making a duet, and cleaned up some comping
adding reverb on AUX tracks, for the background vox bridge & verses…
 After that I deleted unused empty tracks in the vox & keys tracks, also got
rid of the CLIX hide & inactive
 Earlier today I EQd the guitars rolling off the lows and highs, also doing the
opposite in the bass
 My goal for today was to focus on finishing the Vocals and EQing the
guitars, after that clean up any loose ends, vocals still need more work
 I also wanted to work on levels, plug-ins and panning too.
 note self…start making nasty face as mix sounds a little better each day….?
 Also only use 1 compressor on each track not 2, or none at all
 I had a little space at the beginning of the recording, rather than moving
everything or cutting off the lead-space I added a piece of a remix I did last
term with some samples, tones, and reason/rewire-PT
 it works a little like a DJ intro and fits nicely with the bass tone
 Cleaned up some of the keyboard stuff and did a little elastic audio to
tighten things up a little
 Tried to match the snare sound to the sample…
 Finished off finessing the EQs and compressors, getting rid of the 2nd/extra
compressors adding maxims/limiters to all the drum tracks as Rob
suggested, sounds much better.

11. DAY 4 RECORD ALL OTHER INSTRUMENTS

12. MIX MASTER BOUNCE

13. DAY 4 MIX
 Today I'm cleaning up and editing the rest of the VOCAL tracks, vox-duet with drums
gate/cut/edit, also use some other filters and de-Essers
 Next check overall levels and individually each track
 Already cleaned up the SNR/KICK drums edits and tracks double thump is the player
not my edits, not sure what to do, leave it alone
 Now I'm opening up the levels at chorus 3 and more at the Bridge
 When I get to chorus 4, I'm going to bring the levels back down and a bit more at the
CODA to the end.
 Did some automation for visual effects 'cause it looks cool like a real mixing dude?
 Guitar player is quite good, but I'm not sure his playing really fits the style so I tried to
add some Rock' effects EQ, and PAN them in a semi-circle for effect, definitely bring him
down in the mix.
 Now I need to listen to the MIX on speakers, NEVE or other rooms???
 I changed my fades to power from gain, and added a little S curve at the top of cross
fades to smooth things out a bit.
 I really brought down the 2nd duet vocal in the mix for a more live feeling.
 Also cleared unused tracks for more space…
 Got rid of room micas and kept the room mono bussed to the OH reverbs to bus-9
 Checked for all hidden and inactive tracks to removed or silence.
 Edited out the end cymbal rings on the hidden room micas did some levels/automation
and panning
 I cleaned up piano ending with longer fade, panning and levels, little longer than other

14. BETTER YET……..…?