Closing Time is Always Hard

Well, I'm at least not listening to "The Effects of Connection" EP 100 times a night anymore, and thank goodness.  I was about to go completely crazy.  I was frantically trying to track down the "issue" a couple weeks ago and I literally spent every evening upstairs after work listening to the tracks over, and over, and over.  It was quite ridiculous.

Now, the bad news...  I still have not resubmitted the tracks for mastering BUT the plan is to send them tomorrow night.  I did one more minor tweak today which I believe is the last one (fingers and toes crossed, and possibly eyes as well).  I will say, if nothing else, this has been a very good yet difficult learning experience, and I did actually fix every known issue that I can.  Now, there are issues I can't really fix, to be honest, but I'm not going to tell you about those because, well, you probably won't even notice them.

I pretty much knew that I would have to learn how to mix my vocals the hard way since I've primarily been doing instrumental work for so long.  That's the downside of instrumentals, mind you.  It's weird but it is a completely different animal in more ways than one.  In any event, I think I finally figured out what I have to do with my vocals, and along the way learned about 12 other tricks that I can keep in my back pocket.  Learning is good, of course, but I just wish it wasn't so dang painful at times.

I'm actually back to working on "Mirror Land" again, and provided that my vocal techniques hold up, maybe, just maybe this one can get wrapped up in the next two weeks.  One can hope, right?  I wouldn't stake my life on it, mind you, but hope is something I can risk.  And, that's the new for now.  I'll post again hopefully in a couple of days with the masters in hand stating that the songs have finally been posted.