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Mary Beth and I did our Superlo grocery run on an off day yesterday as we have something else to do tonight! We also threw in a Target run while we were at it. So yeah, mundane shopping! I also finally finished mixing The Memphis Concrète Electroacoustic Chamber Ensemble recording from the festival. I had recorded all the audio at the festival off the board. Now for something like this, with mic'd acoustic instruments, that's not the best way to do it of course (but a cheap and easy fire-and-forget way to get most of the festival recorded in a way that does work for most of the artists). So on that recording, the instruments that are quieter in the room are louder in the mix and vice versa. So I mixed it with the audio from the video camera. Now that gets all the room sounds with all the pros and cons of it. I took a while fiddling with the eq and such. The flute was the hardest instrument to bring out. It was the second loudest in the board recording but the violin was consistently louder. And it was the instrument physically farthest away in the room from the camera (along with not being as loud as the closer ones) so at times it was a little harder to hear (often it came through fine, but still). So I did a bit to boost the highs but that also brought up the general noise and made it sound a bit hot if I did it too much, so I spent some time trying to strike the balance there. In the middle of it I got to where I was thinking it wasn't sounding good. But after I finished and stepped away and uploaded it and listened again, I thought it sounded good. But I'm not one to be able to tell! Last night I had that Sunday not-able-to-fall-asleep thing so time to wake up, damnit.