I decided to review the songs, and not judge them too harshly, or second guess them too much.  I did not want to bog this project down with all of the usual mental loop de loops and self doubt.  No sir, let the damn things come out and exist without all of the usual cruel and unusual self inflicted punishment.  Forgive and merely try to improve the mistakes of my early attempts at engineering.  First and foremost, the drum tracks.  On this record I had to really work at getting the drums in order.  Many of the tracks were from day one of this record, and I had some rather odd mic set ups at work.  I also had no compressors, or EQ for that matter, so much of the basic tracks had massive spikes in volume with little to no headroom.  I tamed some of this by simply combining the 6 to 8 tracks of drums together on a bus and forge ahead with EQ. The acoustic guitars were also an issue.  I really didn’t want this project to become more work than it needed to be, but there were some glaring holes in production on many of these tracks.  If the drums were early tracks, the guitars on most of these were even older and even less able-bodied.

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