Once we had recorded the three groups we had to mix two songs of the ones we had recorded, one had to be to the artists specifications and the other had to be creatively mixed.
I choose to do my groups first and last recordings. The first recording (the singer and the acoustic guitar) was to be my mix to the artists specifications, they simply wanted a little bit of reverb on the vocals and for the volume to fade out at the end. The reverb they requested was to be moderately done and to make them sound like they were in a room similar to the genre of the song so for example a church that was really echoy would not have been appropriate so instead I selected a smallish sounding room that gave a little reverb, the reverb effect basically replays the original signal until it is told to stop, you can set the threshold, length, depth of the effect. The threshold is the level at which the effect starts to work. The length is how long the reverb lasts. the depth is how much signal is made to reverb. It is designed make signals sound like they haven't been recorded in a studio. For the fade out at the end I just had to automate the volume so it decreased at the end slowly.
For my creative mix I selected my groups last recording of a vocalist, an acoustic and a bass guitar. To start I raised the volume of the vocals so you could hear them over the other instruments I then added in some volume automation at certain points to create an effect. For the bass I increased to frequency around 100Hz to make it sound extra bassy, and then I added a distortion to it, the distortion effect simply distorts the signal as it comes through by modulating it. I left the acoustic guitar relatively un-changed only a bit of panning left and right and some volume automation.
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