mutantturtle182
New member
Hey all,
My band members and I have decided to put together an album, so what we planned on doing was recording all the tracks ourselves in Pro Tools (drums/guitars/vox/etc) and then just bring the tracks up to the studio we recorded our demo in and have the engineer mix and master the tracks.
My question is...
Should I be be doing any kind of "pre-mixing" I guess? Like EQ some of the stuff myself? Or just leave it all for him to do. I understand the basics on how to use compressors/gates/EQ so I can get a decent sound myself but he can do way way better. I'm thinking it'd just be a waste of time since he'd prolly end up changing some (if not all) of the stuff anyway?
Also, I am using Melodyne for the vocals, I know he has it as well.
Should I keep the plug in running or should I check the vox then remove melodyne afterwards so if he needs to do anything he can and then he can just re-add melodyne afterwards?
We're only doing 1 or 2 songs so we can kinda try this out and see how it works, I guess it's kinda trial and error till we know for sure what we're doing.
I know a lot of you guys are engineers yourself so I figured I'd ask and see what you guys prefer/suggest, pre-mixed stuff or raw tracks or either or.
Thanks in advance!
My band members and I have decided to put together an album, so what we planned on doing was recording all the tracks ourselves in Pro Tools (drums/guitars/vox/etc) and then just bring the tracks up to the studio we recorded our demo in and have the engineer mix and master the tracks.
My question is...
Should I be be doing any kind of "pre-mixing" I guess? Like EQ some of the stuff myself? Or just leave it all for him to do. I understand the basics on how to use compressors/gates/EQ so I can get a decent sound myself but he can do way way better. I'm thinking it'd just be a waste of time since he'd prolly end up changing some (if not all) of the stuff anyway?
Also, I am using Melodyne for the vocals, I know he has it as well.
Should I keep the plug in running or should I check the vox then remove melodyne afterwards so if he needs to do anything he can and then he can just re-add melodyne afterwards?
We're only doing 1 or 2 songs so we can kinda try this out and see how it works, I guess it's kinda trial and error till we know for sure what we're doing.
I know a lot of you guys are engineers yourself so I figured I'd ask and see what you guys prefer/suggest, pre-mixed stuff or raw tracks or either or.
Thanks in advance!
