From Demo to Delivery

Chapter 3

Capturing, Shaping, and Creating the Performance: The Engineer’s Role in the Process Ahead

William Moylan

In This Chapter

■   Introduction

□   Re-cap on Pre-production

■   Recording and Tracking Sessions: Shifting of Focus and Perspectives

□   Analytical Listening Concerns

□   Critical Listening Concerns

□   Anticipating Mixdown During Tracking

■   Signal Processing: Shifting of Perspective to Reshape Sounds and Music

□   Uses of Processing

□   Listening and Processing

■   The Mix: Composing and Performing the Recording

□   Composing the Mix: Presenting, Shaping, and Enhancing Musical Materials

□   Crafting Musical Balance

□   Pitch and Sound Quality Concerns in Combining Sound Sources

□   Creating a Performance Space for the Music ...