Mixing Vision

You've got to approach a mixing job with a vision.

I listened to the songs I've mixed so far from 24 May, on my iPod with headphones.

I think I'm going to remix Parama Karuna with this vision in mind: I want the music to subside into the background, and the vocals to really become the focus. The musical elements should be a bed that the vocal floats over. The flute should sometimes rise up out of the bed and float over the music too, but not at the same time as the vocal.

I'll add a bass guitar track, using a Logic Pro bass amp and a compressor, to fill out the sound.

My concern with the tracks I have to work with are, again, the cartals. The performance is great, but the sound is overbearing, and I don't have a separate chorus track - something that I will be sure to address in the next recording session.