Changes

It's been a fairly busy 6 weeks of mixing but I believe the end is officially on the horizon since I booked space on the calendar for mastering the album on October 14th.  This means I essentially HAVE to be done by then, which I don't think will be an issue since most of the tracks sound pretty good at this point.  I have a few nitpicky details I'm still playing around with and maybe one or two tracks that still need a small amount of love but overall its fairly together at this point.  It's been an interesting experience and I have learned quite a bit.  My hope is that the next mixed album will only take about 4 weeks max.

I also took the plunge and purchased/received my new recording gear.  My system is about 10 years old at this point and my Mac Pro has been chugging for quite some time, constantly running out of memory, starting up very slowly, and so on.  Due to that, I've been fairly limited on plug-in processing power and so my hope is that the new system provides me with a lot more bandwidth and versatility.  My Digi 003, which is what I've been using for an interface, has also shown definite signs of potential failure so it seemed like the right time to switch over to something new, in this instance an Apollo x8 paired with a new M1 chip Mac Mini.    The end result should be good...the bad news is the actual porting over to the new system.  It'll probably take me 2-3 weeks to get everything setup and ready to go.  It's amazing how much software and such needs to be loaded and the trick for me is usually remembering what it all is.

I'm kind of itchin' to get back to actual music creation.  It's hard to switch over to post production in this manner, and you start to forget about the more fun part of actually creating songs and such, which is really what its all about, in my opinion.

I'll hopefully have good news in my next post about the new instrumental album and I'll soon begin putting together the official artwork for the album.  I'm really excited to share this album with everyone and look forward to comments!