"Waiter! There's a soup in my dead fly?"

Well well, we meet again for a quick scoop on the latest Lunar Path poop. Yes.

Now there's pretty much nothing left to record soon. Finished off Tuukkas lead guitars last Monday, recorded some backing vox stuff on Tuesday. I've been dicking around with a lot of samples and cheap drum-machines and generally creating weird soundscapes and stuff like that. Played guitar with a bow yesterday, lots and lots of distortion and delay, sounded really weird. Like a demented cello echoing in an asylum.

Now there's really not much left to record. Like, really really. Weird that I can finally say that, soon I can say that everything's recorded. Weird. It's taken a long time to record, not because it's been difficult, quite the contrary, it's probably been the most easiest record to record. Scheduling it has been a nightmare because of all the uncertainties in all of our lives this year. My divorce and leg injury, the fire fucked up our schedules pretty bad, bassist change, everything...

Now we've just have to record some background vocals with Jesse, wait to get the guest stars tracks... and yeah, that's pretty much it.

Then I'll start to compile this monster into mixable sessions. Now it's approx 100-120 tracks per song. Just the basic elements (drums+keyboard+guitar+bass+vocals) is just +80 tracks. Rest is additional instrumentation, efx and various talking samples.

Have to pre-prepare most tracks, do some sub-mixing. Managing that many tracks with a small 2 year old basic mac mini with Pro Tools LE is nearly impossible. Lucky I got the PT extension for this project so I've got some more tracks to use. Not enough tho, but workable, better than the basic track amount in PT LE. But even though if the machine could handle +120 tracks in the same session, my brain could not.

So for now the time schedule is (about);
December
-Wrap up recordings, prepare the (seemingly endless) tracks for final mixing

January
-Final mixing
-One week mixing 4-8h per day, one week listening in different stereos, thinking about the meaning of life and does this bassdrum sound more like a grape or an apple... Then fix mixing and repeat...

February
-Final mixing / Sending off the tracks to be mastered
-Stressing like a mother on her childs first day of school, "bird is flying from the nest" etc. yaddayadda. Until I finally press "send" and off to mastering it goes. Out of the frying pan and into the fire :P

March
-Getting mastered. Get the final master depending on the mastering houses' time schedule and/or queue... I have a couple places in mind but haven't settled on which yet.

Then it's just to twist arms with who will release this monster. Something we've been working on already and a few prospective choices have been added to the thinking cap. But we're still looking for a label to release this!

After it's mastered and done, it's basically out of our hands, depending on the label/distributors release schedule.

So patience... Yet again.

I'd so like to just leak it "whoops" so people would hear it, but I know some people would hang me from my balls if I did that :D

This is the closest I can get, a crappy bootleg of "Thin White Lines";


That gig was actually that songs debut too, btw.

/Jonas