I spent the last few days giving myself a break from listening and watching the piece I’d made. I had a crit and showed my work to Sam. He gave me advice that really stuck with me. He spoke mainly about the sound mixing being too loud with the footsteps and cloth sounds, as well as in the beginning the atmosphere sounds changed a lot when zooming into the paper rustling. Apart from that, there wasn’t a lot to change.
I did a previous session on Friday and did the editing and did volume automation on each track to take everything down a notch as after taking a few days out I felt the same as Sam in relation to my mix.
On Saturday the 4th of December I spent the day at university referencing my mix to the Genelecs. I found the hiss hard to remove. I did a basic eq on a few channels and compression. As well as a limiter for the master. I did find that my initial foley recordings were perhaps a bit too quiet and I had to turn the preamps incredibly loud to record them. In hindsight, I should have recorded the foley and sound effects louder so the hiss from the preamps wasn’t so prevalent. Although my thoughts at the time were about mimicking the actors on screen. I didn’t anticipate the hiss being this much of an issue. Apart from that, I’m really content with my work. I worked incredibly hard and did a lot of editing and recorded all the sounds myself which was a great practice, I’ve learnt a lot.
