Album status: Down to the wire

[mdlbear]

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.

Comments

[madfilkentist]

"Vampire Megabyte" still needs spin-up and head-crash effects.

I'm especially looking forward to that one.

Fred here.

[capplor.livejournal.com]

I'm still willing to do the work in PShop if nothing else avails you. Let me know.