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catsittingstillI am probably a bit behindhand in mentioning that Friday's concert at the Library went... interestingly.
1) The kids were younger than I'd anticipated. As in many of them were too young to read
2) The librarian asked me, two minutes before I started, to teach the kids the songs. This meant some on-the-fly set rearrangements, as teaching the choruses meant I had time for fewer songs. But that was okay, since the younger kids had a short attention span anyway.
3) The kids didn't always seem to get that the funny parts were funny. Their parents seemed to, though.
4) People seemed to have fun.
I actually spent the weekend on non-album stuff (preparing songs to send to the UU church's music director, who has expressed an interest in doing some of them in services.)
Then I got right back on more mastering tweaks--now I am reducing the volumes of all the breaths in all the songs. Supposedly an expander should be able to do this but I spend two hours fiddling with various ones and having them fail in various interesting ways, then gave up and started doing it by hand. Which only takes about half an hour per song so I should be done tomorrow or the next day. I've also been fiddling a bit with levels--not so much over whole songs, but on the quiet bits that tend to disappear in the car.
Album wise things appear to be on track which makes me wonder if I'm overlooking something.
1) The kids were younger than I'd anticipated. As in many of them were too young to read
2) The librarian asked me, two minutes before I started, to teach the kids the songs. This meant some on-the-fly set rearrangements, as teaching the choruses meant I had time for fewer songs. But that was okay, since the younger kids had a short attention span anyway.
3) The kids didn't always seem to get that the funny parts were funny. Their parents seemed to, though.
4) People seemed to have fun.
I actually spent the weekend on non-album stuff (preparing songs to send to the UU church's music director, who has expressed an interest in doing some of them in services.)
Then I got right back on more mastering tweaks--now I am reducing the volumes of all the breaths in all the songs. Supposedly an expander should be able to do this but I spend two hours fiddling with various ones and having them fail in various interesting ways, then gave up and started doing it by hand. Which only takes about half an hour per song so I should be done tomorrow or the next day. I've also been fiddling a bit with levels--not so much over whole songs, but on the quiet bits that tend to disappear in the car.
Album wise things appear to be on track which makes me wonder if I'm overlooking something.
