"Finished"
I got an email from my mastering engineer, Lawrence Gill at 4:30am this morning. It says:
“All done mate.
It's an absolutely cracking album man! Great tunes & your vocals are spot-on.
Will post tomorrow.”
So naturally I couldn’t believe it when I read the email. Could my album actually be finished? I don’t remember finishing anything. I remember finding myself into a hazardous mental prison of noise, trying to make sense of all of the songs, wondering what the hell I just got myself into. I remember setting myself a Friday deadline to be post the songs to Fat As Funk Mastering in Somerset. And I remember, at some point, thinking that it was as good as it was going to get and that it would just have to get posted, no matter what. But never 'finished'.
Indeed that’s the only way I could have looked at it. After all, the longer I have to do it; the more time I’ll spend fucking around and I’d still only think that nothing is finished. Worse still, I could potentially ruin something when it might have been right. I was never going to be happy with everything, but “it is as it is”.
At the worst, the only issues I anticipate are that the mastering might pumping from compression or giving off too many frequencies I don’t want, but hopefully my reference material will prevent this from being an issue… I will know tomorrow either way.
I have been stressing out about the album artwork and what I’m going to do for that. With just over a week left on the project, I still haven’t completed the artwork. So I was thinking the easy route to solve this would be to get a hot girl naked on a white background and take pictures of her sucking off a berretta. Problem Solved. I contacted rock model, Lauren Reading (http://www.myspace.com/laurenreading) to do this with me and generally she was quite willing. Until I asked her to do it naked, of course (well I don’t know for sure). As a backup, I asked another model who was also happy to do whatever I wanted… This became obsolete once the photography studios kindly informed me they wanted to do a price mark-up by 50% as I’m only able to book over the weekend.
So I’m already knee-deep in overdraft and credit card debt, but when you need something done so badly, you’re prepared to pay for anything. But in this case, there was still the possibility it might fall through. Then I would have paid £200 for a studio I can’t do anything in. No chance.
Time to re-consider my options. I have had a think and decided to go for something that can be done at home. I won’t say just yet… I need to make sure it’s done properly.
Masters come in tomorrow. Really nervous.
“All done mate.
It's an absolutely cracking album man! Great tunes & your vocals are spot-on.
Will post tomorrow.”
So naturally I couldn’t believe it when I read the email. Could my album actually be finished? I don’t remember finishing anything. I remember finding myself into a hazardous mental prison of noise, trying to make sense of all of the songs, wondering what the hell I just got myself into. I remember setting myself a Friday deadline to be post the songs to Fat As Funk Mastering in Somerset. And I remember, at some point, thinking that it was as good as it was going to get and that it would just have to get posted, no matter what. But never 'finished'.
Indeed that’s the only way I could have looked at it. After all, the longer I have to do it; the more time I’ll spend fucking around and I’d still only think that nothing is finished. Worse still, I could potentially ruin something when it might have been right. I was never going to be happy with everything, but “it is as it is”.
At the worst, the only issues I anticipate are that the mastering might pumping from compression or giving off too many frequencies I don’t want, but hopefully my reference material will prevent this from being an issue… I will know tomorrow either way.
I have been stressing out about the album artwork and what I’m going to do for that. With just over a week left on the project, I still haven’t completed the artwork. So I was thinking the easy route to solve this would be to get a hot girl naked on a white background and take pictures of her sucking off a berretta. Problem Solved. I contacted rock model, Lauren Reading (http://www.myspace.com/laurenreading) to do this with me and generally she was quite willing. Until I asked her to do it naked, of course (well I don’t know for sure). As a backup, I asked another model who was also happy to do whatever I wanted… This became obsolete once the photography studios kindly informed me they wanted to do a price mark-up by 50% as I’m only able to book over the weekend.
So I’m already knee-deep in overdraft and credit card debt, but when you need something done so badly, you’re prepared to pay for anything. But in this case, there was still the possibility it might fall through. Then I would have paid £200 for a studio I can’t do anything in. No chance.
Time to re-consider my options. I have had a think and decided to go for something that can be done at home. I won’t say just yet… I need to make sure it’s done properly.
Masters come in tomorrow. Really nervous.
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