Painstaking Process, Part Eight: Mixing

Yay, we are sitting here mixing. Actually, we've been doing it for several days now. We have mixes of Calling You, Habanera, El Cantante, the Aguas medley and Entiendo el Amor. I'm tempted to post some and see what people think. I dunno.

Wayne just got here and is now offering some input--as usual, very spot-on. I did a funny thing on the intro of this tune, where we ran an effect on my voice to make it sound like it's coming through the telephone. Perhaps they're right and it's too weird. But I think it's kind of poignant, like someone calling and singing through the phone how much they miss their soulmate.

Then Wayne has lots of ideas of how to edit the percussion, bringing cuica, reco-reco, tamborim, pandeiro, etc. in and out rather than keeping a wash of Brazilian sounds over everything. Gary has also played with the effects/reverb to bring a lighter, airier Brazilian sound to the vocal, a la Brazil '66.

But frankly the most beautiful thing yet is the a capella Calling You. Wow, that sounds cool.