Another One Coming to a Close

It has been quite the intense week off and I'd dare say that I haven't relaxed even one bit.  I mean, I haven't been tense, per se, but I certainly haven't taken any actual time off, and for the most part I've been coming out of the music studio around 10pm each night and sometimes starting as early as 10am.

It has been a good and productive week; however, I have only gotten done a fraction of what I was hoping for (sigh).  I've been amazed at how labor intensive these harmonies have been.  I mean, wow.

Doing low harmonies is fairly new for me.  I don't exactly know why but in the past I always did high harmonies on everything but since my voice has a hard time with that these days I decided it was time to move in the opposite direction.  It's amazing the difference in sound and tone.  Having said that, though, I've been pretty pleased with the results but it's simply taken some time to get them laid down.

Today, I finally did the deep dive investigation into "Semaphore...", basically pulling apart the song so I that I can track down and fix any issues that were causing the excessive muddiness.  Between the remix and the harmonies that I recorded, I think it took me about 4-5 hours so the vast majority of my day.  I do believe I've solved many of the problems, though, but I won't know for sure until I revisit it.

I know I've said it before but I'm very proud of the lyrics that I wrote for the Defrost Nixon album and I'm so happy that this collection of songs is finally going to see the light of day.  The album overall sounds really quite good, way better than I would have ever thought back when we originally recorded it.  Fingers crossed but I'm hoping to wrap up the Defrost Nixon mixes by the end of June.