My mixing session for "Harvest Towns" went really well, but was not without it's difficulties.
I ran into the studio and started up the project. The first thing I fixed was the timing in the shaker and guitar that was standing out. The shaker wasn't hard to fix, but took a little time because the guy we recorded wasn't a big percussion player. However, the rest of the song sounded great and I got right to fixing it up.
I had a little bit more trouble with the EQ than usual; sometimes with the guitar it was hard to pick out the bad frequencies without taking the sound away. However, I found a nice balance when playing around with some of the presets and trying to see what others had done before me.
On the harmony vocals I put a special effect. I eventually came across a setting that made the sound sound like it was going through a plastic tube and gave the vocals a more rounded, smooth sound that I thought was perfect for mixing it into the background. 

As for the Steven Slate mixing tips, I used a few on this mix.
The first was applied to the lead vocal. Go to the Tweet! 
I thought the lead vocals were a little plain so I decided to try out his tip. And it worked really well! Still needed some reverb to sound fantastic but the mixing tip definitely gave it a bit more presence and air.

The next was applied to the double of the lead vocal. Go to the Tweet!
I picked this one in particular to help out the lead vocals more and for the fact that it seemed like the audio was extremely processed by this. I definitley wanted to experiment with very heavy compression so I created a double of the vocal track and applied the tips. It sounded really interesting, so I mixed in just a little bit to help change the audio.

The last tip I used was applied to the master fader. Go to the Tweet!
I picked this one because it seemed like a nice tip that could help with any song I was mixing. I could hear a bit of difference in the song and definitely helped keep the energy up. I'll definitley try this tip with any song I mix from now on!

For our second Tracking Project I was able to bring in a friend of mine, Jon Allen. He is a local player and has written a few songs. For our session we had Jon record his guitar, voice, and tambourine and shaker to play his song, Harvest Towns
We got in the studio early in the morning and started working. I was very happy with how set up went. I told Jon to come to the studio around 10am to allow us an hour to get everything set up. However, we were all ready to go by 9:30am, a lot faster than our previous tracking. The studio made a lot more sense the second time around and was easy to get sound to ProTools. The recording went well; first we set up the guitar, added a solo, recorded vocals and back-up vocals, and then finally the percussion sounds. All the recording went well, it just took a bit of time to audition and process all the microphones. However this process was a nice way to get around to using a bunch of different sounds in the Studio. Jon was a great person to record with. He had the song down and played it really well. In the end I think the song turned out really well and I look forward to mixing it!