We recorded on Saturday and today was mix day and y'know what, we're done.

Ah but there I've gone and given you the punch line. Oh well, here's some of todays fun anyway.

We started today by borrowing some studio monitors to test out, whilst we were picking them up, I spotted some other cool objet de musical art :-)

If I was a guitarist or an Amp Dude these would be meaningful to me, but as the Harp Dilettante, all I can say is 'oh, lookit pretty!' or "Gee I like that font' (sigh).

I am sure they are cool.

The next phase was putting the borrowed monitors into the studio and testing them with various sounds and songs, including some rare Mark Hunter tracks (jazz!)

Later on during the finalisation of the mix, it turned out the bass response on the monitors was up too far and there wasn't enough bottom end on other test playback devices (the car, the boombox, the ipod). As none of us had a flashlight to hand I had to use the Flash function on the phone to brighten things up so we could check the teeny tiny dials on the monitors.

BTW they were very nice.

There was quite some discussion about the opening of the new song and various arrangement items. When you're working with Tape, it behooves you to Have Your Sh-- Together Before Pressing 'Start'. There's none of this Namby-Pamby 'what if' that accompanies Digital Production.

Meanwhile, I contributed in the manner that any  Executive Producer worth his salt contributes. I made John a sandwich.

Here's my latest art piece entitled 'Desk With Lunch Roll'.

I make quite good sandwiches, ask any member of the band :-)

And last but not least here's another bit of the song being mixed.

It's done, we're reviewing it :-) Stand by for what we do next! Thrills! Spills! Lunch!