Over last weekend I went through and restandardized all the audio channels in cubase. it’s basicly the first phase of better isolation for specific tracks. somehow we managed to have two pairs of channels coming out that were entirely dry, so those were combined to make room for bass. I also started to bounce down some tracks (while keeping an archive of the pre-mixdown version). Prior to the process, Dragon Droppings was seeing quite a bit of disk access for all the recorded parts, but that dropped to almost nothing after i was finished. I’m trying to get every track into a standard format so that as we finish them (which in reality we have with four but they need to be converted to this new format and remixed), I can start migrating them into the live set, and assembling the arrangements.

This coming weekend we’ll be adding another 16 channel line mixer to submix drums through which should free up at least four channels on the console. We’ll also be using the aux outs on the alesis qsr and emu pk-6 for drum patches. So even though we are adding another 16 channels (that brings us to 64 channels mind you) this one will instantly have at least 8 channels used for drums. At some point I’ll have to post the current gear list as it grows almost weekly with at least something.

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