In the studio this week, Taylor and I practiced sub-grouping and putting the song Jonesy through the MTA 980, on the group bus, to the monitor groups, and then back into the box to record the mix. We used 3 groups, Drums/Bass, Gtr/Horn/E Percussion, and Vocals. That means we had to use 6 tracks- 3 stereo AUX tracks to get out of protools and into the board, and 3 stereo audio tracks to get the mix back into protools. We then got started on Raw Tracks 4 is not a very good track. In fact, if I were in the real world, and had some credibility as a producer, I would not accept this as a paid gig. I would send it back and tell them to get it re-tracked, or hire new musicians. The main thing I noticed was that there were a ton of vocal track, which isn’t the initial problem. In most of these recordings the vocalists’ words don’t line up, and it would take an unnecessary amount of editing/ be a huge waste of time – which is why I mentioned it be re-tracked. We edited the tracks and cleaned the session up.