Sunday Afternoon

Friday night was pizza and Archer. After errands on Saturday Jacques came over for album-related stuff. There was an argument over "Cameras." We did agree that the bass drum was mixed too low. So I fixed that like I fixed the snare by copying the track's sound file and placing it next to the edited mix in Audacity (had to position it against the edited version by looking at the shape of the waveforms for somewhat similar patterns, but it worked and I got it lined up nicely). I had also started working on, not sure what the term is, but it seems like a component of mastering, I called it "smoothing the volume" of the songs on the album. Kinda like manual compression of a sort. Padding odd peaks to give more headroom to bring everything else up. Pulling up quieter bits some (still with plenty of room for dynamics, but making certain parts have more presence). After that Mary Beth and I ordered Five Guys and finished the season of Archer. Then off to Josh's birthday party! It was a good swell time to see everyone. Played some ping pong (Jacques kicked my ass but later I kicked a very drunk Josh's ass, so uh yeah). Played a game called Werewolf that was pretty damn awesome. Talking and stuff. Towards the end of the night, Dustin had a pretty brilliant idea for me: during the summer while I'm still being paid for teaching I should get an unpaid internship so I can gain some experience and it could maybe help to get a job at the end of summer. I'm really into that now. Anyway, gotta start workin' now. Got to bed real late and woke up really even super later. Language!