Progress Report - Eyes Cut Open - 30/04 -14

As of yesterday all drums are complete. Previously I had only worked with programmed drums but now I've had the chance to record some on my electrical drumkit. Although they have been edited/quantized it still sounds a lot better than it did before with mor detail, variation, fills, and a few completely different beats which in my opinion sound a lot better than the old drums. Because of time constraint a few areas were not recorded this way but it mainly riffs where variation and improvisation was fairly limited so I wouldn't have gained that much from it anyway.

Now to the somewhat negative side. The mix is starting to feel pretty much complete and most changes made now are just nudging the controls of the EQ's and whatnot to get a better sound but there is still one thing that's bothering me: the clean sections. Yesterday I spent hours working on creating a improved preset for my noise reduction for all the clean electric guitars, and making new Guitar Rig -presets for them as well as improving the old one so it doesn't show of as much noise. Overall the result was pretty good but not quite where I want it. The lead clean is fine where it is but the other two guitars fade away a little in the mix and sound a little too weak so I'll be trying to improve on that. There's also some problem in the mix I feel with the relansionship between the guitars and the piano so I'll probably take a proper look at that as well.

Other than that recording is close to completion, what's missing is still most of the foley and all vocals. Lyrics have made some progress but I've been focusing on other things so they're still not complete either.