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Jockey update 2:
Recorded banjo last night. Reasonably happy with it but as the nylon string part is fairly busy i've had to really rein it in.
When we play live I sing and play a full-on picked rhythm banjo part all the way though but that was just way too much on the recording. My banjo doesn't record terribly well either and can be quite harsh sounding so I tend to keep it for occasinal flavour as opposed to the main instrument. So I've recorded much more laid back part which nails the intro riff then sort of comes and goes throughout the verses. I'll have to edit it to make sure the occasional flourishes don't clash with either the spanish guitar or the main vocals. That will have to wait for the mix though.
Main reason for that is that with this project I'm determined to leave the mix until the end and am going to resist the temtation to mix as I go. Apart from being good practice and i've found that with working "in the box" as-I-go mixing, as I load up track after track with CPU taxing compressors and reverbs I start to get horrible latency when tracking. Keeping everything bare until the mix is going to help with that a lot.
I want to get to the end of tracking this week then do a pre-mix then a final mix. Next week when I'm off work.
The missus is away overnight tonight so i'll be drinking wine and recording electric guitar, percussion and maybe vocals.