Peeking My Head Out Again

I'm finally peeking my head out again after releasing the "I Miss You Most at Nighttime" album on 10/26.  Let's just say that I'm a bit underwhelmed by the downloads and sales, enough so that it made me a bit on the depressed side.  It hurts a bit more considering that I think this is probably the best thing I've recorded yet.  The comments I have received have been very positive, though, so that's at least something.  It's just been rather hard to be motivated to start working on the next Jazz Machine album when this one's not exactly tearing up the charts and doesn't seem to be on most people's radar.

Nevertheless, I'm almost over it (keyword = "almost").  I have a week off coming up during Thanksgiving and I'm hoping to be over it enough to be fairly productive.  In short, I can't really afford to NOT be productive since I have so little time off to work on these things so I'm doing what I can to shake things off.

I've also begun playing around with the "Mirror Land" EP mixes.  Strangely, the new upgraded recording gear threw off 90% of my levels in the existing mixes so I'm kind of starting over now.  This was an unexpected side effect of the upgrade, mind you, but I'm dealing with it thus far.  The new system also changed the tone of vocals only, for some odd reason, and I can't quite get my head around that one as of yet or figure out why it occurred.  I hadn't really planned on anything of the sort.

I have my work cut out for me for the remainder of the year, though, with mixing, a bit of band-aid recording, and then staring to flesh out the new Jazz Machine tracks which are almost all written in rough form in my head already.  I also still need to complete the digipack layout for the "I Miss You Most at Nighttime" CD version which I've just not had the heart to work on over the past 2+ weeks.  Alas, it just needs to be done so...