Deadline

My 'date' with the mastering lab is this Thursday and so I've been scrambling to make any finishing touches and so on with "I Miss You Most at Nighttime".  I had one track in particular that was really giving me grief and I think I found out last night, by pure spur of the moment bright idea and accident, that it was a self induced issue.  It seems that I followed some advice that I read about online and it actually created an issue where there was none originally.  The solution was simply turning off the EQ plugin.  Duh.  I'm learning new stuff every day.

I also did my "mono check" yesterday in which I found at long last a true blue phase problem!  Phase used to boggle my mind when I'd read about it, and this particular part on a song was something that I kept turning up in volume but it never really seemed to get much louder.  Well, that's where the phase issue came in :)  As soon as I fixed it, I found I could drop the volume by many dB and the passage was now louder than ever.  I do give great credence to the mono check!  It's no joke.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that all goes well with the mastering process.  I've never done this before in this manner so this is all new to me.  I also learned about ISRC's, licensing, and so on.  It's a lot to take in but I think I'm getting it down...I hope.

On the plus side, the album's mix is sounding better than ever.  It DID take me way longer than I had hoped but I think I've got a good result which ultimately is all that matters in the end.