1 Mar
2005
1 Mar
'05
12:26 p.m.
--- "Brett W. McCoy" <idragosani(a)chapelperilous.net>
wrote:
Say I have 3 or 4 songs that I want to have segue
into each other (i.e.,
like on most prog rock concept albums where each
song flows into each
other rather than individual tracks that are
separate). Each song is
recorded in a separate session, since each has
different
instrumentation, tempo, atmosphere, etc. Maybe I
want to have some wind
or sound effects or something also as part of the
segue, so one song
fades out to wind while a second song starts while
the wind is still
blowing (yeah, yeah, I know, how cliched).
Now, from here, maybe my next step would be to do
initial mixes of these
tracks to stereo WAV files, and then I build a super
session and import
the WAV files and build a playlist with the tracks,
so I can get flow
between the tracks the way I want, set crossfades,
seques, etc.
One track/playlist with all stereo mixes on it. At
this point you can easily build multitrack seques and
route them and stereo mixes to the Master bus which
routes to JAMin. Then add a second Ardour bus, name it
jam-return, and route JAMin into it and route
jam-return to your playback ports.
Then
perhaps I master these tracks via Jamin so I can get
a good sound level
balance between the tracks, and then record this
output back into the
Ardour session as a final mixed and mastered
sequence,
An alternative is to Export Range rather than record
into a new track. It eliminates the record pass and
Export/freewheel is faster than realtime. The drawback
is that after leaving realtime priority for freewheel
the realtime priority is lost. You have to restart
jackd to get realtime back. It sucks bad but isn't a
big deal in this case because you've produced the
final product.
Having produced the final product, I like to visually
view and listen to it using Rezound. It has excellent
visual clip indication. It is not acceptable to have
even one clip. To address that concern, you can set
the JAMin limiter to -0.02.
If you plan to produce an .ogg then you'll need to
hold the amplitude around -0.05 because oggvorbis
encoding, much to my dismay, increases amplitude and
will create clipping in an otherwise perfect file.
As a last note, you could use the LADSPA OSC plugin to
automate scence changes in JAMin. This works but for
several reasons is really more a proof of concept
implementation. Reguardless, it is awesome and
eventually internal OSC should be implemented into
Ardour. Great stuff!
That's a couple things to consider. You really do have
the right production concepts.
ron
and thence onto
the DAO CD mastering (where I probably would put in
track markers with
zero gaps).
Or, would I perhaps want to do some pre-mastering of
the individual
multitrack sessions first, and then mix down to
stereo WAV and then
build a playlist out of the pre-mastered tracks,
then back through Jamin
for final audio mastering, recording this back into
Ardour, and then
finally off to the CD mastering step?
-- Brett
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