Dauntless!

Yes, another song is in the can, more or less. The nice thing about picking up the pace of recording is that when I hit the inevitable "I have no idea where to go with this song" roadblock, the fact that I hit the same roadblock on the previous song is still fresh in my mind. Knowing that I've successfully overcome it in the past makes it easier to just bulldoze through that roadblock.

All of these tracks will still need another remix. It's amazing how something that sounds great on my mp3 player and on my studio reference speakers sounds muddy and gross on my home stereo system. I haven't figured out how those real mixing engineers pull off the trick of sounding good everywhere.

I was listening to a K.T. Tunstall track the other day, and I was struck by what a difference great mixing and mastering makes. It just... popped. It made me want to listen to the track right from the outset. That's a pretty neat trick. Not an easy one, either, unfortunately.