through the tracks: solo the drums, solo the bass, and tweak things. A lot of the EQ was applied without solo?ing things; instead I?d EQ with the whole track playing, which gave me a much better idea of the pockets the different tracks were playing in. Synthesizers, depending on the part and the sound, can take up a lot of space, and when you have a lot of them layered on top of each other, you can run into some train wreck-areas. This was one of the reasons why I was very happy to mix on an SSL. The solo-in-front feature is something that I wish every DAW had. If you are EQ?ing a track, it allows you to keep the track at the same volume, but everything else will drop behind it, and you can control how much behind you want it. It allows you to EQ a track in context. "The total number of tracks on ?Boom Boom Pow? was about 64. These include all the different drums, the synths, and the vocals and backing vocals. We also did several remixes of ?Boom Boom Pow? that will be released on an EP. We really tried to go for a different sound with the remixes, and some of them, quite frankly, ended up being almost new songs. At the same time, many of the effects that I used on ?Boom Boom Pow? were used on the whole album, they were a kind of common thread, and helped to make