Mixing the Album Track Four: Run with the river

Took me a few days this one. I am completely changing as a producer, the way that I mix now compared to before this point is drastically different.

I used to mix a song by weaving it's different parts in and out to come together as a whole. In a way alot like Phil Spector or Brian Wilson, not that my music sounds like that, it's just mixing to a vision, like painting.

This has been pretty much impossible on "Where do we go from here? UP" because there is no "action packing", there is no "Big" loud moment. It is all very gentle. I could have mixed with a bang but it would have been wrong. It's all about being real.

If you was standing there in the room with the band when say "Run with the river" was recorded, then the vocals would not suddenly get louder at the end or in the chorus or something like that, it would only get louder acoustically within the range of the human voice. Not a big loud impact.

The minute that I mix anything louder for an "impact reason" it sticks out as being "fake" and not true and makes you feel like you are not listening to a real moment that has been recorded.

So my old style of mixing is out. The only time I will use the old style of weaving is when an instrument represents the magic that was in the room.

This maybe some sort of turning point for me as an artist. I feel like I am letting things be and letting the work have it's own dynamic shifts and pulses.