Jookeyman wrote:I was into this if all five of us were to participate. I understand there are differences in opinion, here.
If we can work around these differences I will participate but first we must all be on the same page.
I'm not hung up on mixing and I would submit a track for a final mix but you and Mike haven't considered one thing.
We would all have to pass around stacked tracks anyway to hear WHAT to play.
The only way to get around this problem is designate a person to produce the final product.
This person would have to mix the stacked tracks and post for the next person to submit their track.
That's the only way it would work and I can't speak for everyone else. There has to be a consensus to do it this way.
If anyone disagrees, I'm out. This would be very time consuming for whoever is designated 'producer'.
Nope, as I said in my earlier post: Each person can take the original layered track and add their part to it (as a whole) and pass around that track - but also provide the single track they did unlayered, just by itself. So in the end, you have a fully-layered track (or maybe a few, if for example, you do a guitar track on top of Mark's bass on RG's drums, and Scmed does a guitar track on top of RG's drums by themselves) and a bunch of single instrument tracks. The final 'producer' takes the individual tracks to mix appropriately. And maybe has to go back to one of the Banned and ask for something new or slightly different. Or not.
I can produce an acceptable mix in 2 hours if the parts gel. And I don't mean gel like a jam - which your previous collaborations have essentially been. As a song (with singing/lyrics) there has to be a defined format, for example intro/verse/chorus/lead/verse/chorus/lead/chorus/outro - which means there's no lead playing during the verses and choruses - at least until the vocals are done. Then little leads can be inserted in where they fit. For me to be involved, its got to be that way. I've tried mixing songs that have lead guitar parts done before the vocals are tracked - inevitably, it doesn't work well (unless the leads are pre-written to fit in the pre-written singing pauses).