ugh. this is my fault, i should have paid closer attention.

i'm trying to rebuild the mix on a may, 2002 version, which i had reconstructed from pasting together a cd-rip split into three copies. now, i noticed a little gap but i just deleted it...

the gap is a breakdown in information. bad burn, i guess. the first gap is inaudible, but the second isn't. so, i can't build it on that...

luckily, i have a version from april, 2002. which means i need to reconstruct more of the file in the mix, but it's a positive trade-off.

i seem to have built the 2009 on a different april mix that is time shifted strangely. what i'm about to do is the better option.

so, today was a wash. but hopefully i can still get the bulk of it done by the end of the night.

so, it seems like at some point i time shifted the track to 25:00, then i recorded extra overdubs after i time shifted. that explains why it's just a little bit out of sync. but because there were gaps in the rip it's not as simple as just shifting it back.

i'm going to do this the other way around: i'm going to time shift the overdubs back to the original length, then time shift it back to 25:00. it's not going to be identical to the two final 2002 mixes - it can't be.

the only other answer is to rebuild it, but i've tried doing this repeatedly and the blunt truth is that i can't. i can rebuild the first section, but the wave editing in the second half of the track isn't reproducible.

it's not going to be inaudible - you're going to hear a slight delay if you play the three tracks simultaneously. but who's going to do that? and it's the best i can do with it....

i've decided the existing mixes of this aren't sufficient. i built the thing back up a few times from '07-09 because i couldn't find the source, and it's just out of sync in a few places. when i didn't have the original timing, it didn't matter. i just had to guess. it does now...

so, there's a handful of tracks to re-add, and a number of modified tracks from '07 and '08 that i had put aside to mix in as well.

as the issues are sync related, the 07 and 09 mixes are likely to be simply deleted from the discography altogether. the 09 mix is on youtube, and i'll probably leave it that way. i'll have a good listen when i get it mixed down.