Notebook : pages 53-54

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More final-edit notes. Never re-recorded the website callouts for Internet, dammit—did a wacky reverb flyby thing instead of ping pong echo, in the end, using the goofy half-hearted demo callouts that were never supposed to be on the final album. Oh well.

And Metal Things took some serious late-night damage; through a combination of bumbling on my part and weird Audition file-management choices, I destroyed one of the two lead vocal tracks for the song, so what is on the album is just the less Byrne-ish of the original pair of vocals. That was a bad five minutes of my night.

Other than that, everything went pretty much according to plan, fix-wise. The album's levels are pretty good and consistent, though the dynamics are more old-school uncompressed levels than probably fits modern radio-ready standards. Turn up your stereo.

I was doing my final full mixdowns and track cutting for the master when the clock ticked over into 12:01, March 1. Nick of time.