M: Jeff Beck - You Had it Coming
T: Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
W: Motörhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith
F: Rick Murnane - Mixes
Yes. Today I have a CD in the car of my own stuff. Talk about narcissism, right? Not that bad yet, honest. It's one I burned yesterday of the mixes for the new album. All nine songs in the sequence they'll be in when it's finalized. This is a regular step in the process. It's a good way to see which tracks are louder than others, if any frequency jumps out annoyingly at the eardrums, or if anything needs to come forward - that sort of thing. Then you go back in the studio, make the adjustments, and create a new mix before heading to the mastering process. In mastering, one of the things one does is even out the collection so it's at (or pretty damn near) the same overall listening level, and is a cohesive whole rather than just a jumble of tracks. But hey, each step along the way means the project is almost done. I'm very pleased. And I hope you will be, too.
