I keep on telling myself we're almost there

Illness can be a blessing, not just because it means you get time off work, but it also means you have more time to do the things you really need to do, like mixing... hurray!!

And guess what? You won't believe this... I've nearly finished!! I know! After all that whining, I got it off my chest, stopped caring so much about minor details and just got on with it (thank God, says anyone reading this).

Well there's nothing like a good deadline before handing it over to the Mastering engineer... I was originally scheduled to finish for today, but realistically I will need tomorrow too (though I am well enough to go back to work too, so I guess I should). So aiming to get it to him before the weekend, though he's about to have a baby, so chances are he won't be looking at the tracks immediately anyway.

I've bounced everything down and had a listen in order to come up with any last minute opinions I might have.

My first, and biggest concern is that all the tracks DO sound very different. Richard's warning of not being too eclectic has backfired on me; only because I didn't heed it. Not a lot I can do about that now, but I might need to change the track-listing order slightly differently to what I originally intended so it can be played beginning-to-end more coherently.

I do feel they work well stand-alone, though. All with the exception of 'Almost There', which is now an awful mix in comparison to the rest of the songs. I mixed this in Vestry Hall a over a year ago now and had no idea how much BASS there was throughout the whole song, generally making everything sound very muffled and messy.

So now I'm entertaining the idea of re-mixing the whole lot tomorrow, from scratch. I have a much better idea of what I'm doing with it now and could probably get a much better sound. Then it's just minor touch-ups.

It now sounds so simple, but I'm sure I'll be pulling my hair out again this time tomorrow... it's not much longer, anyway.