Hello everyone. It’s time for another little update, this time coming from our sound department. We had planned to let Shane handle this one, but his internet left us at a bad time. Regrettably we’ll have to manage without him… You might already have noticed, but he’s been working on mastering our whole soundtrack. A temporary soundcloud has already been updated with mastered tracks!

What exactly is mastering, though?

This is what music “looks” like when Dani and Shane work on it.

Mastering is the final engineering process in music production - a dynamic art that stands on its own, isolated from music writing, production, recording or even mixing. It’s a little difficult to explain without getting technical… But it’s basically the process of taking a piece of music and making it sound like each piece fits with every other piece… it’s a bit like making the music “album ready,” in terms of quality. The instruments, composition, etc don’t change but the levels of each sound change to help make the piece generally easier to listen to. Check out this before and after:

This is the “before,” and…

This is the “after.”

While our guys are still new at this, we feel confident this will be a huge improvement to our (currently) over seventy tracks. The volume levels have been maximized and evened out and some problems were surgically removed. We even lost the source files for some older songs, so those were a real challenge…

You’ve probably seen this before.

This update was a bit small, but we’ll be showing you a new track on Tuesday to make up for it - not to mention an update from Pastel on the 13th of March!!