Reply To: The Mandelbrot Set 3: Creepy Monkey Underpants
Thanks, Caleb! Things are lining up much better since I figured out what was going on with my Logic projects, and with my new guitar/bass tracks. I may not get to work on it for a day or two, but I’ll be happy to have bells that don’t drift push/pull the beat.
I think you may be right about the bass — most of the tracks were coming out a fraction of a beat off, and it seems to sound better now. I have to do some more listening, and then I can get a test mix up. The problem was there just wasn’t a really solid timing reference in my first few mixes, when everything I recorded was playing back off the beat.
Personally, I think your flute part sounds just fine… it lines up well, and it fits nicely into the mix. But we are always our own worst critics, and I always cringe when I listen to my own guitar parts played back.
The only remaining track that is making me grimace is the mandolin. I love, love, love the way it sounds, and it mixes nicely with the bridge and guitar solo, but it also lines up imperfectly with the chord changes, quite noticeably. It could probably be fixed by very slightly time-stretching or compressing some of the notes (without changing pitch), and that might sound OK.
I’ll upload the MIDI tracks the next time I get to take a little studio time — maybe tomorrow night. But, it actually probably wouldn’t take me that long to realign the notes to the grid at 140… I should just suck it up and do it!