Crazy Done

And so, the 'deed' is done...  I now have my first real live officially printed CD in hand.  I received them a little over a week ago and, much to my surprise, the packaging inside and out looked pretty spot on.  Apparently, I had a lot of worries for nothing about the packaging, although I'll still say openly that the proofs looked a bit off but evidently that's just how they process the files.  My only complaint, if any, is that the cellophane overwrap is a bit strange feeling and not the usual that you'd expect on a CD but that's a pretty minor and nearly irrelevant thing, at least in my case.

The bad news is that no sooner did I receive the CD's but I noticed yet another strange anomaly in the mix itself.  Sigh.  I've also been working fairly hard over the past 2-3 weeks trying to learn more about mixing bass, definitely my weakest point in my mixes, and I've already moved on far from the "...Miss You Most..." mix, knowing that it's fairly flawed in those areas.  It is what it is, at this point, and there's no going back now.

Now, I knew all of this going into it for it's just part of the 'process'.  That was partially the idea of even doing the "...Miss You Most..." album, to literally go through the entire process, start to finish, from writing songs to recording to arranging to mixing to designing the artwork, etc., and know full well going into it that at times you're going to fall flat on your face.  I guess this is what we call learning.  I knew there would be issues so I'm not exactly shocked by it but I won't deny that it does annoy me that I learned of this latest mix issue at this point, even when I had an additional 7 months of listening to the CD to find it.  It's just funny how that kind of thing happens.

And so, now, I have literally a few hundred CD's lying in my bedroom with no home for them to go to.  It's okay for all I'll probably just hand them out at random to people, again, partially my intent from the beginning.  Meanwhile, I'm still working on the "Mirror Land" mixes and trying to apply some of these new techniques that I've been reading about.  So far it's going well, actually, and most of the EP is sounding pretty good at this point although a few more minor tweaks still need to be applied.  I absolutely DO need to get this wrapped up fairly soon or else I'll probably go completely mad.  It's just not normal to take this long to mix 3 songs.

More adventures in hi-fi coming soon.  I'm off all this week so I'll probably be making a few updates in order to share various details, such as all that I'm learning about speakers.  Who knew speakers were so complicated?!