After finished all the recording from VCV and all the effect editing, I start to do mixing by using the monitors at home where all the previous process were doing with headphones. First, I did the EQ of every tracks. Some of the track like the duck and bird songs were recorded in Victoria Park, therefore, I tried to use EQ to filter out background noise. Although record with a shotgun mic already help a lot, compare to the previous project, which I used Zoom H5 mic and the XY figuration wasn’t directional enough for record animal sounds. The other goal of my EQ process is to emphasis the characters of the tracks. For example, the narrowboat engine, I reduce the high and increase a little bit of low frequency which make it more bassy and save the high frequency for the bird and watery sounds. Finally, I level every tracks and balance every tracks amplitude.
After all the processes, I bounce it out and listen it again and again, and listen it back when I was out or even at home. The problem of levelling keeps came up, so I have to go back and change them. The final piece is different from what I thought in the beginning where it is more liner rather than whirlpool or circles due to the limitation of using LFO. LFO have a smoother modulation of the playing speed but it created the liner feeling and turns out it is more like a wave. But the main goal of the composition, which is messing with the time, are achieved.