The EP is complete. We worked 5 days a week for almost three weeks to get everything down, edited, mixed and mastered. The process was exhausting and Reza and I certainly experienced moments of total insanity. The result seems tantamount to the hard work we put into it however, and we are as excited as ever!
Next we have to finalise our artwork and layout, which we will be doing on Sunday at Cailan’s house. Following on from there, production should begin on Tuesday or Wednesday. I’m told the turn-around is 5 – 10 working days, which should give us a couple of weeks grace before we leave for tour (cutting it close I know, but chill out).
We were extremely scrupulous throughout the mixing process, using as many different reference points as we could. We listened to everything through multiple systems, ranging from discmans to home Hi-Fi systems, portable CD players, headphones, earphones and of course car stereos. My car got the most work overall, as I “know” what CDs “should” sound like in there. By the same token: if anyone who owns a 1994 Peugeot 405 buys this record, they shall be experiencing it exactly as it was intended to be, haha.
The entire record runs for thirty two minutes and thirty two seconds and is probably closer to a miniature album. Or rather it’s my perception of what an EP usually represents or “should” be like, pushed to the absolute maximum.
Below is a video of Reza and I in the middle of mixing the outro to the title track from the record.
- andrew
January 24, 2010 at 3:13 am |
ahem i do believe the plural of discman is discmen. hahaha.