{"id":582,"date":"2011-01-27T22:58:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T06:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2011-01-27T22:58:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T06:58:44","slug":"been-a-long-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/been-a-long-long-time\/","title":{"rendered":"been a long long time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve sat down in front of six-figures worth of audio equipment &#8211; I&#8217;m pretty sure the D\/A converter alone cost more than all of my equipment combined. Fortunately, I had Mark from Seattle Disc Mastering to run it, so I&#8217;m back from the studio with a test master! I&#8217;ll be playing it on a lot of things over the next few days as I wait for an ISRC number assignment early next week.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t make any huge changes. It&#8217;s a collection of subtleties &#8211; some things are clearer, overall song equalisation is consistent across songs (like you expect on an album), there&#8217;s a bit more presence here and there, and a bit of the harshness of the kind of digital hardware I can afford is softened enough to prevent aural fatigue, the live track now sounds&#8230; more better, really. It&#8217;s all compressed a bit more. No, I&#8217;m not taking up arms in the Loudness Wars, it&#8217;s just enough to play better\/more consistently across a wider array of equipment. Things like that.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I can level up in hipster cred, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.normankoren.com\/Audio\/\">vacuum tubes<\/a> have now been used to a significant degree in my CD process.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2011-01\/tubes.jpg\"><br \/><i>I rebuilt my EICO ST-40, I have a right!<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I asked Mark, my mastering engineer, who he thought I sounded like. He was at a bit of a loss &#8211; other than Led Zeppelin. AGH! XD<\/p>\n<p>I shoulda taken pictures. Oops. Oh well, I&#8217;m tired! That was a lot of work. G&#8217;night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve sat down in front of six-figures worth of audio equipment &#8211; I&#8217;m pretty sure the D\/A converter alone cost more than all of my equipment combined. Fortunately, I had Mark from Seattle Disc Mastering to run it, so I&#8217;m back from the studio with a test master! I&#8217;ll [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}