ok. i've got the thing set up to remix it - i can do this. i may have to split the drums up, but it's otherwise pretty clean. you can barely tell on an a/b, and i'm going to be putting it through a mastering transform, anyway, so it just has to be close. bonus: i can resync that classical guitar part.

that's it for the night, and probably until wednesday afternoon....

it's almost a total reconstruction, afterall.

the parts i can't recreate are the drum soundscape (it's the reverb) and the time modded guitar effect that defines the second half of the track. i mean, i can do it in theory. and i may end up trying. but trying to get the exact point where i split it and the exact length i stretched it to is a fool's errand. if i feel forced to do that, i'm going to get a different shape in the second half of the song. i can say i've decided that the production is more important, but i want it to be a last resort.

i should be able to just cut the track at about the six minute point.

it's a slow fade in at that point. so it's easy to splice. i can then master that section a little differently.

so, it's coming together. again: i'm not doing this a fifth time, so i'm not fucking around with it this time.