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  Once all the voices and instruments from a given Sunday are captured onto the hard drives of the digital multi-track recorders, Perry takes these portable drives to his home studio, where he transfers  all of the audio tracks to his PC, and imports them into a digital audio workstation (Digidesign's ProTools©).  

Using this powerful software, Perry and Jason spend a large chunk of time "tweaking" various elements, such as the sound quality of each and every track (equalization), and the effects to be used (reverb, delay, compression, etc.).  They will even clean up individual voice and instrument tracks with digital tools that allow pitch and timing correction, as well as a variety of digital tricks that can be used to "fix" an otherwise unusable performance.  There are a few instances where, as a last resort, a musician's or vocalist's performance is re-recorded at Perry's studio or at the church.  However, every effort is made to preserve the original performance and to maintain the integrity of the musical worship experience that was captured.  (View More Photos)
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  Once Perry and Jason are happy with all the individual elements of a given song, it's time for final mixing.  This is the process of balancing the relative volume levels of the individual voices and  instruments.  Thanks to the modern digital age, all of the volume moves and other time-consuming audio adjustments are stored in the ProTools software, and can be saved and recalled at a later time.  Because of the large amount of time required to get a solid final mix, this recall ability is a life-saver!  Rarely is an individual song mixed in one session, so all that needs to be done at the next session is load the last ProTools file for a given song, and continue from there!
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  After all of the songs have been mixed, they are arranged into one master digital file in the correct order and format, and this file is sent to a mastering lab, where finishing touches are applied.  Typically the mastering engineer will adjust the overall relative volume levels of each song (not each track, as in the mixing process), so that one song does not sound louder than any others on the final CD.  Among other things, he will also adjust the overall tonal quality of each song to bring cohesiveness to the entire album.  He will then prepare the final master for mass duplication.  
     
 
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