daniel(a)mondodesigno.com wrote: Hey, good (all around) recording... Just one question... When you say "Recorded with Audacity by me, mixed with Ardour and mastered with Jamin", are you saying that you recorded the actual tracks in some program/hardware (other) than Ardour and just used Ardour to mix them? I'm hoping this was a "linux only" recording. It's something that you can be proud of as far as show people what one can do with a linux audio studio. I also like the "musical content". In other words, good song... Just one comment about the mix... I was surprised at the (one) female vocal that was panned "hard right" (all the way to the right). Because the rest of the mix is pretty good. It's good the hear a natural sounding recording with live sounding instruments (as opposed to my approach of relying on soft synths). I've been writing this while listing (to save time). But now I realize I'm going to keep listing... Rocco

Yes - they were recorded using an 8 buss analogue mixer and M Audio Delta 1010 direct to a Linux Mandrake box running Audacity. Ron opted to mix the track in Ardour on his machine, so I exported one wav file per track from Audacity. It's hard to get vocal choruses right - Ron actually did another mix after this one with louder drums and the vocal sounds nearer the centre of the stereo image, but the limiting on the second attempt was rather harsh. (We'd been discussing the way pop records manage to achieve such high average amplitude, but on reflection I'd prefer to sacrifice some loudness for the sake of dynamics and overall smoothness.) Thanks! If I've learnt anything from trying to record real instruments, it's that it's a lot easier to get it wrong than with synthesised instruments. Since this recording was made, I have been building up a better collection of microphones and have just arranged to buy a bass preamp, which should all help. Cheers Daniel