Blogging in B Minor

The recording, mixing and mastering for the River of Faith production is completed. I did most of the mixing of each song as I went along but the mastering I’ve been working on over the last month or so off and on as I finished off the last 2 songs or so. I wasn’t sure when I’d feel like I had enough songs. I actually wrote closer to 16-17 but some never made it down the road. I’ve mentioned in other posts that I have a song graveyard of sorts – a digital dumping ground for songs that just don’t take off for me creatively. A few ended up there and then a few I decided to cut in favor of stronger cuts. It’s pretty standard stuff really!

So I went through the mastering process which is a fairly tedious and complicated process when cutting an album. For me, I lined up every single track in Wavelab and then ran the entire stereo track through to check/monitor eqs, levels and so forth and made some across the board changes but also had to understand where I needed adjustments. I won’t get into all of the details but the end result was good. I’m very happy after the hours and hours – and days spent that the finished product is something I can be very proud of. The next step is get on with the CD duplication process. The artwork is done – I just need to key the track times into the design. More to come on that…

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