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The short animation score is done! Sandi Chih came in Sunday morning to record the solo flute parts and she was a pleasure to work with! All that was left after that was for me to bring in all the parts in the final mix, which is what I’ve been doing for the past couple of hours.

Doing the mix of a score requires a fair bit of concentration and patience. Listen, move a fader, listen again, move the fader some more and so on. Small things make a big difference while mixing and it is SO easy to listen too quickly and then regret a long time. “Why didn’t I bring the flute down here? The violin’s
too soft there!”

(Case in point: I was listening to mix number three as I wrote this and the flute was too loud in a few places. Fixed it. The violin seems okay, though.)

Doing the mix is also really exciting because you get to hear the whole thing come together into the final product.

So, without further ado, here’s the final score!

Part of what is hard in this one is that I wrote a solo violin part over a pretty raucous orchestral passage. What’s hard about mixing it is that I want to hear everything I wrote, but I can’t make it too loud since it will overpower the violin.

So, to satisfy my desire to hear everything, I made a version of the mix without the violin! Here’s that raucous bit karaoke-style!

I just love those chords moving around with that thick orchestration!