so, i'm used to losing a few days around the start of the month. wish i didn't lose a few around the end of it, too.

i'm back on this track. i want it done soon, but i don't want to push it out prematurely. i had given myself the first, but that's off. hopefully, it's a by the end of the week thing.

mods are going to be minor, though. it's weird how you can have an idea, then listen to it over and over in your head, until you realize that it's already there in the first place. i guess it's sort of like listening to a complicated piece of music until you get it. it's just weird when it's your own. but the mix you make is not the mix you imagine, so you need to get used to it just the same.

it happens a lot with drums. i'll imagine it with a deep bass, listen to it 100 times asking "do i need to deepen the bass?" and eventually conclude the bass is pretty deep, so long as the listener has listened to it enough to be conditioned to it. meaning that the random listener out there with random co-ordinates may not get the deep bass on first listen, but the proportions will make sense after the 50th. which is what the mixing aim needs to be.

....because i have no choice to condition myself as well, because i'm ultimately listening to the mix the first time as well, regardless of how much time i've spent imagining the track in my mind. i wouldn't suppose that most people would envision the process that way...