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Apr. 19th, 2012 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillYesterday and today I spent putting together mock-ups of the CD cover and tray-card and the face of the CD so I can get a quote from One Of My Favorite Artists for CD art. Perhaps it will be way out of my price range, but if I don't ask, I can't be pleasantly surprised. And if I have to do it myself because I can't afford art, having the mock-ups will make it easier to be thinking about what kinds of photographs, from what angle, would fit in those spots, so it's not time wasted.
Anybody have experience with CD replicators and want to recommend a company? So far I'm looking at NationWide Disc, mostly because of the ease of their web interface (and they have the option I want, which is bulk CDs, and bulk covers and tray cards, so I can buy jewel cases as needed and stuff them, while the remaining 900 or so CDs don't take up as much space.)
I also spent time listening through everything I intend to put on the CD (though some things are missing parts.)
This gave rise to a couple of unpleasant surprises, which is one of the reasons I did it now. I still have a little recording time left (I think) and since I used the wrong mic on Boats Have Bones and the noise floor is very high (something I inexplicably did not notice while I was mixing it, but your ear gets used to stuff) I can re-record it next week. And since I apparently forgot to mix Atheist's Anthem after I re-recorded it, and I need to mix my part for Common Ground (it's one track, but I will need to cut back and forth between takes) I can do that soon, instead of trying to fix it at the last minute (which would be about June 26th or so, when I intend to send it to the replicators.)
I have also discovered that the compressor function I've been using makes me buzz on the high notes. It's different from the crackle I was getting when I was recording at 44.1 KHz with the Zoom, but it reminds me of it, a bit. I can solve the problem by removing the compressor, but vocalists generally need some compression. I can reduce the problem markedly by increasing the attack time of the compressor to about 50 milliseconds, but I'm pretty sure it won't work on the consonants if it takes that long to kick in, and the consonants tend to need it.
So I'm going to sit down and go through every compressor function Reaper has and try to find one that will let me set the attack time to 3 ms without making me sound weird. But I don't think I have the spoons to do that tonight.
I haven't been sleeping well and I've been very tired. I think I will go to bed early tonight, because I have to record tomorrow. And then I will drive down to Atlanta for a housefilk which sounds like it will be a lot of fun.
I hope you folks are all doing well.
Anybody have experience with CD replicators and want to recommend a company? So far I'm looking at NationWide Disc, mostly because of the ease of their web interface (and they have the option I want, which is bulk CDs, and bulk covers and tray cards, so I can buy jewel cases as needed and stuff them, while the remaining 900 or so CDs don't take up as much space.)
I also spent time listening through everything I intend to put on the CD (though some things are missing parts.)
This gave rise to a couple of unpleasant surprises, which is one of the reasons I did it now. I still have a little recording time left (I think) and since I used the wrong mic on Boats Have Bones and the noise floor is very high (something I inexplicably did not notice while I was mixing it, but your ear gets used to stuff) I can re-record it next week. And since I apparently forgot to mix Atheist's Anthem after I re-recorded it, and I need to mix my part for Common Ground (it's one track, but I will need to cut back and forth between takes) I can do that soon, instead of trying to fix it at the last minute (which would be about June 26th or so, when I intend to send it to the replicators.)
I have also discovered that the compressor function I've been using makes me buzz on the high notes. It's different from the crackle I was getting when I was recording at 44.1 KHz with the Zoom, but it reminds me of it, a bit. I can solve the problem by removing the compressor, but vocalists generally need some compression. I can reduce the problem markedly by increasing the attack time of the compressor to about 50 milliseconds, but I'm pretty sure it won't work on the consonants if it takes that long to kick in, and the consonants tend to need it.
So I'm going to sit down and go through every compressor function Reaper has and try to find one that will let me set the attack time to 3 ms without making me sound weird. But I don't think I have the spoons to do that tonight.
I haven't been sleeping well and I've been very tired. I think I will go to bed early tonight, because I have to record tomorrow. And then I will drive down to Atlanta for a housefilk which sounds like it will be a lot of fun.
I hope you folks are all doing well.
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Date: 2012-04-20 02:44 am (UTC)I used Oasis for my CD; Discmakers is another popular choice. A lot depends on how many you expect to make/think you can sell. It may well be cheaper to have 1000 pressed all at once than four short runs of 100.