Since my last tutorial, I had planned to meet with Dave so we could sort through all of the vocal takes together. However, due to various reasons we ended up not being able to meet up which meant I hadn’t got as much done this week as I’d liked. However, I was able to convince Dave to let me do all of the comping and tuning myself so we didn’t get behind schedule and I had something to show Ben for my following tutorial.

Ben recommended that the best course of action to take between now and next week was to work on my blog as much as possible and to complete of all the vocal comping and tuning. Doing this will also mean that we can benchmark where my work is at and have a clearer understanding of the areas that I need to work on.

Ben also gave me some great tips and mixing techniques with regards to setting the gain structure into plugins and showed me some great software called K-Meter as well as a great research source by James Wiltshire. This will be a great resource to take into consideration for my mastering learning outcome.