CD Status

[mdlbear]

The rest of the family is off at FurCon, leaving me plenty of quiet time. (I expect the flower_cat and super_star_girl back shortly.) I've been taking advantage of the time to work on Coffee, Computers & Song!.

I worked a little on "High Barratry" -- the most recent take basically nailed it; all it needs is some additional vocals on the refrain lines. The current status is:

• 5 songs needing substantial amounts of editing; 3 of those may need the guitar part re-recorded.
• 7 songs needing additional parts, mostly vocals on choruses. Two songs overlap the previous category.
• 9 songs ready for final mixing (which includes minor amounts of eq and reverb).

I expect to have a pretty good handle on the text and layout by the end of this weekend. I also need to put together a database and a couple of CGI scripts related to preorders. Should probably plan on having more done there, too.

I'm actually feeling pretty good about the whole project. It's not going to have the production values or dazzling arrangements of some other albums -- even filk albums -- I could mention, but I no longer think it needs them. Vocal plus guitar on all but a couple of tracks is firmly within the folk tradition; it's going to sound like me and a couple of friends swapping songs in a quiet corner at a con, and I'm ok with that.

Note: Coffee, Computers & Song! is available for pre-order, with shipping expected sometime in March or April. If you're at Consonance I should be able to hand you your bonus disk in person.