a good two hours

(please note: if you haven't read yesterday's post, i'd recommend reading it before reading this. actually, you'd probably do well to read most of the posts from last week and this week in chronilogical order.)

i was planning on taking last nite off, but when b.w.e. announced 34 minutes into coffee & cigarettes that she couldn't hold her eyes open a second longer (and it wasn't quite 10) i told her that i was gonna go work and would come collect her in a couple of hours, since she wouldn't know the difference between me sitting there watching a movie and me sitting in front of a computer. in true b.w.e. fashion, she agreed and sent me with her blessing. so off to work i went.

things went well last nite. with some phone coaching from my friend dawson, who has already taken on a similar project and learned quite a bit about mixing and editing, i was able to get the second song, storybook (not the song from the nite before), in pretty good shape for completion today (minus the bass...a friend's working on mine to make it sound pretty. it's good to have friends!).

tonite's menu will include, but will not be limited to: getting the strings and guitars balanced on storybook, a song that some of you have heard live, but that i've been afraid to record. i might have to drop a part in here or there, but i think i just need to add some compression, reverb and eq.

it's amazing what reverb, compression and eq will do for a song. one day when i'm famous i'll have all of you over to my mansion of a studio to let you hear the difference. you'd be astounded. speaking of mansion, the man's gonna shun me if i don't get crackin'.

no rest for the weary...