With last night's midnight mixing mania, the album is in a state it's never been in before: as far as I can
tell, none of the tracks make me cringe to listen to them. That leaves
the following work:
- "Vampire Megabyte" still needs spin-up and head-crash effects.
- Final mixing -- delete unused tracks, clean up any problems that turn
up in the next couple of days.
- Tray card and booklet layout. If necessary I suppose I can do the
layout in Photoshop, but I'd rather use Illustrator, Pagemaker, Corel
Draw, or Quark. Suggestions? I may try to do the preliminary work in
Inkscape and export SVG.
- Paperwork
- Label printing, some experimentation, and home burning of the bonus disk. In particular, I'm still not sure of the best way to
make a mixed CD/CD-ROM out of it. Bonus disks, at least, will be
available at Baycon.
I'm currently planning to take tomorrow off to do as much of this as I
can. Meanwhile, if anyone wants to give the current mix a good listen and
make comments, I really need another few sets of ears on this
one. Email me (my LJ username at livejournal.com) or comment below for a
pointer to the secret link. (Or hack it -- this is an album about
hacking, after all. The URL is on a disk label image linked from this
page. It's really meant as a bonus for people who pre-order, so feel free to do
that, too. There are still plenty of pre-order packages available.
