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[mdlbear]

Fixed some problems on About Bleeding Time; levels on "Rambling Silver Rose", applied some EQ and took out a couple of vocal fumbles on "Ta(l)king Preorders", and applied EQ and 3dB of noise reduction to "House Carpenter/Demon Lover" -- which really improved noticably. There was a lot of high-frequency ringing that the EQ killed. In all cases the EQ was Audacity's built-in "acoustic" curve, which has a bass-to-midrange boost and low- and high-frequency rolloffs.

Did some work this morning on the CD-ROM portion: a couple of LGPL license notices, and (finally) moved the Makefile templates down into the Software directory so people can see them. There's over 200MB of CD-ROM, which means that players that don't automatically skip data tracks will have about 20 minutes of silence. I'll stick in a warning.

It's not professional quality, but it isn't meant to be: it's a quick-and-dirty bonus compilation pulled together from four different concerts.

Tomorrow I'll call the various duplicators. Still taking suggestions beyond DiskMakers (currently the favorite because of their Berkeley office), Oasis, and ShortStacks. I may very well switch loyalty for CC&S; what I'm looking for here is fast turn-around and maybe just printing on blank, recordable disks. On the flip side, ShortStacks is in the running for CC&S in part because they're happy with plain old image files for layout. Not as sharp on the text, perhaps, but easy to generate with the free software I already have.