A Few Final Words

The mixing went really well at Metropolis - once again we used the power of "in-the-box" to revisit and tweak almost all of the mixes in the very last couple of days. I have uploaded some more photos of Tom and Jack hard at work on the last day of the session. (In fact there was one more day when James printed all the instrumentals, just in case they are needed, but the band and I didn't attend for that).



Jack worked very hard on the running order (and even left off one of the songs I really wanted to include - but hey, it's not my record!) and Simon Heyworth did a great job mastering for us.

Thanks to the band for asking me to make this record with them. It was a please and a privilege, and I am very happy with the fruits of our labour.

Also thanks to the rest of the studio team, our fantastic engineer Jeff Knowler and our two great assistants, Mark Allaway (Miloco) and James Aparicio (Metropolis).

In fact the thanks list goes on and on. The record is the result of an almost unimaginably huge network of people, manufacturers, farmers, software designers, lorry drivers, business people, supermarket owners, steel mill workers, miners, artists, shoe store sales people....... The list really goes on and on. I can't even count the people who enable me to eat breakfast. It's all teamwork.

Thanks everyone.

Specialized Power

I complement the Brompton with another bike, pictured here outside the mixing room:

JB at the controls

Yesterday we worked on one of the newest songs - the vocal idea was not quite sorted out so Jack took over the controls for a bit of vocal editing. Now it's all working pretty well, and will be finished tomorrow.

Recap:

So I got a bit behind with the Blog - the last 2 posts were all from the Toyshop second session which was done I think the week starting April 30th. Right now we are at Metropolis Studio, mixing. We have a first mix of almost every song and next week we move on to mix tweaks. Generally sounding very good, though I say so myself.

My Noisy G5 at The Toyshop

a brief description of the problem

Second tracking session at The Toyshop - some pix

Jeff pretending he can use Logic (he is a Pro Tools guy):



Sophie, our very helpful and considerate Studio Manager:



Jack very impressed by Gareth's skills at the controls :-)



George and Tom numbering limited editions of Navigate:

Hardcore Mix Team