{"id":673,"date":"2011-03-03T12:09:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T20:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2011-03-03T12:09:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T20:09:05","slug":"electronic-release-and-cd-pre-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/electronic-release-and-cd-pre-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic release and CD pre-orders!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the mastered tracks for <i><a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\">Dick Tracy Must Die<\/a><\/i> have now been uploaded to the website for listening and purchase!<\/p>\n<p>I really hope people will go listen to the final version of the album. It&#8217;s been a huge amount of work and an emotional roller-coaster at times, no lie. But I&#8217;m proud of it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\"><b>This is the electronic release, and you can download it now<\/b><\/a>. I&#8217;ve also added to a lot of the liner notes and such, where <a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/\">we have a lot of thanks given out<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\"><b>CD preorders are also now available.<\/b><\/a> If you aren&#8217;t likely to run into me any time soon, and need a CD shipped, pre-order through the website. <b>Pre-ordering the CD also gets you immediate downloads<\/b>; it&#8217;s all bundled together. Yay, immediate gratification! XD\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/contact.php\"><b>Direct preorders<\/b><\/a>: If you <em>are<\/em> likely to run into me (say, at Norwescon), or want to pay by cash or cheque, you can preorder by emailing crime<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/images\/at.png\">crimeandtheforcesofevil.com. You&#8217;ll also receive a download code, so immediate gratification still applies! Mostly. XD<\/ul>\n<p>Also, even if you&#8217;ve listened to songs from the album before? Listen again. Mastering is a collection of subtle arts, and you can hear a lot of them at work on these tracks. It&#8217;s really neat to hear, particularly in the denser studio tracks, and tracks with lots of drum, like &#8220;Stay Away&#8221; and &#8220;Shout at the Desert.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I mean, sure, some of it is obvious; you&#8217;re doing equalisation across tracks, you&#8217;re putting everything to CD\/download specifications, you&#8217;re making sure all the levels are compatible, things like that. And there are technical things, like ISRC codes, that nobody much notices, except that&#8217;s how iTunes knows the names of the songs on that CD you just put in the drive.<\/p>\n<p>But some of it&#8217;s just surprising. In one case&#8230; honestly, I have no idea what he did. But it was like he took an unsharp mask filter and applied it to sound. It was literally like three adjustments, and is apparently a pretty normal thing to do, but&#8230; I have to say, it was a HOW DID YOU DO THAT?! moment.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more to talk about, but that&#8217;s for tomorrow. To be continued! (\u3064\u3065\u304f)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the mastered tracks for Dick Tracy Must Die have now been uploaded to the website for listening and purchase! I really hope people will go listen to the final version of the album. It&#8217;s been a huge amount of work and an emotional roller-coaster at times, no lie. But I&#8217;m proud of it. This [&#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-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","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=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}