Decent

I had a pretty decent and productive weekend.  Mixing continues to get better, and I tried out another new plug-in earlier this week that I felt was a bit of a game changer.  Immediately after the trial of it, I was completely won over and promptly plunked down my money to buy the plug-in.  I'm doing everything I can to keep learning more and more about how to make things sound better.

I dare say that "Mirror Land" is basically ready to go now.  I worked all three tracks this weekend, adding the new plugin's and making various busses, etc., and I think they all sound pretty good.  I'm sure I'll tweak them a little here and there but I think they're done for the most part.  I cannot say enough about how "Optimism", the track that I like the most but sounded the worst, has turned around in the past weeks.  It sounded pretty bad still a few weeks ago but my re-working the mix and adding some plug-in's has really pulled it together.

I do have some release news at long last.  The new version of "(He Was) Some Kind of a Man" is being mastered this coming Friday, and provided I have all the artwork proofed and such, I should be able to submit the order for the CD's almost immediately.  It looks like the turnaround time right now on CD duplication is about 3 weeks so that means they should be in hand around June 15th.

I suspect that I'll be submitting the "Mirror Land" EP for mastering probably within the next 2-3 weeks as well.  Due to lack of funds, though, I probably won't get the CD's made until a few weeks after that.  I think we're looking at a mid to late July release for that one, and I do intend to post the digital downloads basically at the same time that I have the CD's so that there's no lag time.

In other news, I'm taking a week off in 2 weeks which will be nothing but mixing and some minor touch up recording.  My focus will solely be on the Defrost Nixon band album, which is already in progress really, and the long planned remix of "Lost Weekend".  Judging by how mixing is going for me in general these days, I actually think I'll have that one wrapped up by the end of June as well if not almost done by the end of my time off.  It would then be able to be released as soon as I have the funds to master and duplicate it.  For Defrost Nixon, I think we're looking at probably a September-ish release date for that one but it is a bit more up in the air due to the amount of work involved.  If I can stick to this schedule, though, I think I can easily manage to get the Wrecking Ball album done this year as well, and possibly a bit more, so things are progressing really well.

The bad news is that I haven't even picked up a guitar in like 2 weeks but that should be remedied fairly soon.  It's been a bit on the crazy side but I dare say that it's been rather enjoyable, and I'm greatly looking forward to getting these releases out there.