Prairie Dogs

Spent the better part of the weekend beating myself up in the studio. I’m trying to get as all the grunt work done here in my own studio so when I take it in to be mixed down, we’re not spending time doing things like “cleaning tracks” “track lists” and the like. It’s slow tedious work but I’m hoping that I’ll save time (i.e. money) in the long run.

Colin from Colin Magnuson Creative has said that he would like to work on the CD art part of this project so that’s going to be a big help. He’s the one responsible for the colorization of the picture of my Grampa. He’s got a great eye for design and I’m looking forward to seeing what he comes up with for the rest of it.

Right now I’m looking at getting into the studio for the final mix sometime in the beginning of September. Though Mike came over last Monday night to finish up the last of the tracking, somehow that entire session didn’t get saved and got blown away, so now he’s going to have to come over on Wednesday to do it all over again. That’s the one big drag about recording all this on my crappy computer at home. It’s a pretty unstable machine and I get so paranoid about losing all the data before I get a chance to do anything with it. Right now, if the hard drive dies, I’ll be left with just the 8 tracks I started with back in April. Once Mike finishes his tracks, I’ll be burning the whole thing onto CD ROM’s to take to the studio. Once I have it on CD I’m going to feel a whole lot better about everything.

I’ve been having trouble putting the recording project aside long enough to get to sleep so last night I tossed and turned until 1 am or so and woke up at 5:30 to stare at the ceiling for an hour. They started mowing the trailer park at 7 am and woke up all the boys.

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