Thinking about upgrading

( Non-computer geeks will be non-interested. Just getting my thoughts in order. )

Rehearsals and mixes and tracks, oh my!

Made a dump CD for the car today and only noticed minor problems (all relative levels) on 4 songs. "Daddy's World" is already fixed; I'll probably get to the others tonight. There are still four others that need a little more work. Tomorrow and Saturday. But it's definitely converging.

Joyce came over yesterday to practice for our Baycon concert, which is now almost exactly a month away. The set list is still pretty fluid, so now's the time to make suggestions. (Waves at cflute.) We had a couple of requests from the household -- it was Wednesday, after all. "Cap and Bells" is looking like a good candidate for inclusion.

( So here are Wednesday's songs as I remember them, in no particular order: )

Tracks

After the last post I went on to tweak levels in "Bugs", "Paper Pings", and "Stuck Here". The latter moves up to the number 4 slot, swapped with "Daddy's World" in 14. The effect is to improve balance between solo and multi-part pieces. Otherwise there would have been no solos in the first 11 tracks, and three in the last 5.

At this point, the major job remaining is to finish the artwork. It can't be finished, of course, until I finalize the track list, but I need to get a little farther than I have. Part of the problem is the fact that none of the layout programs on Oasis' list are really affordable for the kind of infrequent use I'll be making of them. Annoying.