Being A Producer

Ok, so we're coming down to the point where we're actually having to start putting all the mess we've created together. As a whole, we've been working on this album on and off for over a year now, and it's time to start mixing and mastering.

So for the last week and a half, I've done NOTHING but read about mixing and mastering. It's intense, amazing, and brain numbing stuff. I've remixed our first track about a thousand times, and every time I get closer, and then decide I don't like it and start over. Damn you perfectionism!!

In other words, I'm frustrated. I'm learning such a huge amount, I'll spend all day reading and absorbing information, get home and start work, and by the end of the night I'll be banging my head on the desk because I just can't get that last 3% I want.

I suppose that's part of creation, letting go. If I had my way, everything I ever worked on would just be shoved to the back of a closet, and labeled with a huge marker "NOT GOOD ENOUGH". Thankfully, while my counterpart on this album is the same way, together we refuse to let either of us succeed in doing that.

So it will be released, eventually. Vocals and production continue.

Tomorrow's Monday, unfortunately, but at least we're forging on.