actually, i can feel the a/c now, maybe he just got home. i want to wait until it gets down to 26 in there.

it's just barely, but it's increasing...

again: i expect to barely hit it this month, too, and hopefully push a bit further next month. as you can see, the july curve was quite steeper than a natural curve would be....

uploading to spin inside dull aberrations to the scratchpad

i'm also re-upping that last temp file, to fix the levels.

it's all sequenced, but that's it for the day. it's very hot in here (i think buddy upstairs with his a/c is away for the long weekend) and i don't want to lose another hard drive. considering that what happened to the last one was that the motor seized. whenever i hear the fan click in, now, i get paranoid.

i had that machine on for years straight without any problems, and in an apartment hotter than this, but the older they get the more likely they're going to bust. these drives are on borrowed time. i'm backing up regularly now, but i don't want to fuck with fate.

nah. i'll split it into three...

i combined some of the string and synth parts that were routed through multiple signals, but this is otherwise pretty comprehensive - minus that bass part and any extra lead parts i decide to throw in.

that was easier than i thought...

hope this is legible. it's without the bass parts, which i need to compress and import.

lol...

so, i bounced everything too quietly. i thought the guitars sounded weird and i just couldn't figure out what the fuck it was...thought my amp was maybe going on me....

i knew to turn the effects off, but i have the master at -1. so, it came out around a decibel down. i've verified that i get the right level if i rebounce with the master at 0.

that means, i'm going to have to go back to the file before i bounced (i saved it at that point), rebounce everything and then reintegrate the parts i've added later. that might take all day.

i'm going to take a different approach, though. what i had done before was bounce multiple parts down into the same file, but i figured out halfway through that it's really just an effects issue and i'm not really clearing up processor space that way. what i basically want to do is just run the different files through the effects i've got set on them.

the other thing, is i watched my track count go down, which made me a little sad. this'll keep it back up where it ought to be.

so, deep breath. ok, go...