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Mastering on “A Million Different Moments” has begun. I’m trying to avoid the “compress everything until it sounds louder than anything else out there” trend. Yes, I’m applying compression, no I’m not using high thresholds and high ratios. Yes, it’s getting limited, no I’m not using an ultramaximizer threshold of …
Well, we’re in the back stretch. I recorded the final vocal take for “Prevailing Winds” on friday, and spent the majority of the eveing doing things like adjusting snare-drum volumes on “Walk in London”, tweaking deff velocities for “Sevgilim”, checking vocal levels on two or three tracks, making sure I …
Okay, lots of people, good crowd. Hey, what’s with the 8-foot DMZ, folks? We’re the locals! C’mon up! Ratio of people I don’t know to people I know strongly favors the former. I still like that for some reason. Wha? Backing tracks? That’s weird, I thought Matt was doing intros. …
Every album has a track that just takes forever and overwhelms the hell out of me. On “Crimson” it was “Stoplights” – the whole thing was me doing weird one-shot sound programming and I wasn’t sure it’d all fit together until the very end. On “Sublimation” it was “Fly Skyward” …
Got up too damn early again, but this time with a reason. Had to get Blitz to the airport. Met Matt, Chuck and Sigrid at the hotel, yakked with Voltaire briefly and watched a fat middle aged guy look at him and say “dang boy, you look like thyat Frank …
