{"id":630,"date":"2011-02-15T23:58:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T07:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=630"},"modified":"2011-02-15T23:58:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T07:58:32","slug":"i-have-release-candidate-1-in-my-grubby-little-mitts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/15\/i-have-release-candidate-1-in-my-grubby-little-mitts\/","title":{"rendered":"I have Release Candidate 1 in my grubby little mitts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Session Two with Mark Guenther at Seattle Disc Mastering went well. We fixed the short list of problems I&#8217;d discovered, added track IDs, and also made a couple of small adjustments in equalisation for tracks two (Hide From Me) and twelve (Shout at the Desert), all in about 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>And now I have Release Candidate 1 in my grubby little mitts! Once I&#8217;ve played it a couple more dozen times, and ripped it a couple of ways to see how it behaves, then, well, I&#8217;ll either find something I think needs to be fixed and get it fixed, or I won&#8217;t, and we&#8217;ll print the two golden masters. I went to Best Buy and played it on about a dozen CD players, and I&#8217;m pretty happy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a couple of people bring up pre-orders! Yay! Obviously, you can pre-order by being a $30 Kickstarter backer, and that&#8217;s super-awesome! But also more expensive than regular pre-orders. Those will start once the Kickstarter project closes. We have a booklet to print (and for that matter, to finish laying out &#8211; aheh, better get on that!) as well as actual physical duplicates to make and all that.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how many little decisions go into making a CD. We&#8217;re looking at a new type of CD case &#8211; easier to assemble, less fragile, more likely to be undamaged by shipping, cool things like that. I&#8217;m told they&#8217;re common in Asia and Australia, and am checking with people I know on the ground there to find out. I saw things that match their description in Japan, but used for games, rather than music. I&#8217;m hoping they&#8217;re available for CDs and look good, because they&#8217;d be a hell of a lot easier to assemble.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2011-02\/leannan-sidhe-w-dara.jpg\"><br \/><small><i>photo framegrab courtesy Leannan Sidhe<\/i><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a monophonic but I <em>think<\/em> pretty decent recording of my guest appearance with Leannan Sidhe, by the way. So I <em>may<\/em> have a free download for you guys in a few days. Watch for it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Session Two with Mark Guenther at Seattle Disc Mastering went well. We fixed the short list of problems I&#8217;d discovered, added track IDs, and also made a couple of small adjustments in equalisation for tracks two (Hide From Me) and twelve (Shout at the Desert), all in about 45 minutes. And now I have Release [&#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-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","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=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}