| I sent the masters for Victory Chimp out to Drag City yesterday, not sure when it will come out. There's still a lot of work to do to get it ready, they usually like a 4 month lead time. I've just been listening to it for the last month-and-a-half but I haven't changed anything in it for a month-- so it is done. And on the other hand, I can't find a perfect excuse to scrap it all and forget it.
I realized, looking back at some of these posts, there's a blank gap (N.B.: that'd be a gap that is actually blank and not filled in with some bullshit, exposition &c.) between talking about planning and doing one specific thing in music to finishing. That is to say, the finished product is the demonstration of the execution of the process. But a second-by-second description of each decision is impossible-- for the same reason I still cannot shoot a jump shot in spite of looking at a thousand examples and how-to books &c. Clank.
Here are some various notes that I made to describe certain things I needed to do on various tracks:
82: to come into my/all the way
Aug Age: time compress original to live version length
Music level halved: "As her lover..." to "Fantomas runs..."
Duophonic: cut hi right channel (standard curve)-- 16 sample delay
First Night: Instruments doubled after final sound effect
Powdered Glass: POV change pitched up 3
insert new readings into last complete master, not individually as tracks
4 octave jump D to D
Vib Low: On, Vib Up: On, V/C Dial: C3, 8888/80838, Perc: On, Vol:Soft, Dly: Fast, Har: 3rd
Hebephrenic, 16 Beats: A-F-/-F#-Bflat-B-D-A-/-G-D#-G-C-D#-B-E
Day Jobs: edit clean original top and end, music at -12 db, retain staccato middle section
4 section stereo spread, (l-r) Baritone, Bass, Ld Tenor, Tenor- 4 part harm, 8 voices per line
1000 Saints: bass +2 db to suppress treb between pts.1 and 2
Dr. Griffen, new voice: "I stole it this morning..."
Pause for venue changes
Process phrase "ski boot ruse" use 12/8/12/9 if after sun goes down otherwise reset figures
Spec Ven: revert to mix from compilation six
To wrap this, I think I'll take a look back at all the pre-recording VC posts and do an exegesis on them. Maybe find a better way to talk about what was done. Or there's always the sheet music, can't argue with that. |
