Catching up

I went down to Atlanta for the house filk at Dawn's place. I had a nice visit with Alice and Beth and Marie, and the filk itself was a lot of fun. Matt Leger skyped in from Africa, where he and his Songbird are stationed. That was the longest distance skype attendence I have seen, but it worked pretty well; the connection didn't fail once and there were only a few sound glitches on our end. It occurs to me that for filk circles it would be handy to have a camera under the control of the person on the other end; we kept having to turn the laptop so Matt could see the person performing. But it was good to see him and to hear a bit about what his life is up to, so far away.

I took Monday off, feeling kind of flattened, and having a new Temeraire book to read, but got back to work yesterday. I mostly finished mixing Villain's Cat, and I checked its sound against that of Today Is The Day (similar arrangement) and they sound consistent. I also tweaked the bass line for All Things Pass (I'm strumming the mando as the instrumental on that, and it occurred to me that I could use the octave mando to play a bass line, though I think it will be a bit higher than most bass lines, but we'll see.) And I wrote a bass line for Driver's Lament.

I have much much *much* mixing to do, and I need to write harmony parts and record them. So that is keeping me kind of busy.

Oh, and I have a new song; I need to solidify the tune a bit and put it up.

Writing harmonies and bass lines

Has to happen in the next couple of weeks. I did 2 yesterday and 2 (I think; I will have to verify in the morning that #2 will work) today, and also put in 4 or 5 hours of mixing today and got another (very short) song almost all the way mixed.

I'm kind of worried I'm not going to have time to do everything. I thought a month for mixing was plenty of time, but maybe not.

And yesterday I thought I would record tomorrow, but I'm really not ready so Friday at the earliest.