I've had to unwind things, try again, fail, do some research, unwind things, try again, and so on in an endless loop for quite some time now. I finally have a bit of a process down that seems to be working but I still have anomalies that I can't fully account for and so there's a lot of going back and forth. It's quite maddening but it's all part of getting over the "hump", as they say. Once you're over the hump, you usually don't really have to look back...but the hump itself can be rough.
I have not had the time to work on the Defrost Nixon tracks like I need to. Instead, I've been working on the "...Fish!" mixes and I chose this partly due to that being the original plan and because it's sometimes easier to play around with something you're struggling with on tracks that you've haven't already heard 100 times in the last week. At this point, I've gone through the entire "...Fish!" album but only about half of it has the latest iteration of my vocal processing so there's still a ton more to do. I did find last night that one of the last tracks I needed to work on has a bunch of highly annoying noise on the vocal and I'm not sure if I'll be able to deal with it in post so it's looking like it might be a re-record...which is a bit depressing. I've got a few more things to try but it's not looking too positive. As for the noise, all I can imagine is that I was positioned way too close to the mic and perhaps felt lazy that day and didn't use a windscreen?! Who knows...but the noise is highly annoying and widely across the high spectrum so not easy to remove without ruining the vocal quality.
If nothing else, I have been learning a lot but it's just by the usual trial and error, with more error initially than success. The "Mirror Land" EP release is now almost a month overdue and it's starting to give me anxiety. I think I need to do something to get it wrapped over the next 2 weeks at most. Ugh. I see some hard decisions ahead.
Easter has come and gone and now we're pushing towards May. Where does the time go?!! I didn't have much of a holiday for it was spent between yard work and hours in the music studio. Day off, you say?! Vacation??! These are words I'm no longer familiar with...at least not until I get over this hump. Damn hump.
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