Hairball

Good news: Three and a bit songs are nicely processed and mixed.

Bad news: I'm not entirely happy with the sound quality of the vocals from the portable 8-track. Which is to say, I'm extremely cheesed off about it.

A quiet signal (like, -24dB!) for each multitracked layer, with a highish noise floor (like, -48dB) don't make for professional results. I've half a mind to scrap the lot and rerecord on the PC - chorusing the bits that need harmonies instead of singing the harmonies myself, and recording at 24bit 88200kbps instead of 16bit 44100kbps.

If I can face doing it all again, of course.
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The LMHR gig is all set for the 2nd of June. There's 9 confirmed acts, and at least one that's "to be confirmed".

Sean R is organising the event and, being a laid back socialist type, prefers to wait for bands to contact him to confirm their appearance, rather than actually ask them.

However, with acts ranging from a folk singer with acoustic guitar to bulgarian prog rock to schoolgirls playing grunge to...erm, me doing sort of hiphop synthpop, it should be good.
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How long does it take to OCR a 166 page stageplay? 2 and a half hours, roughly. How long does it take to proof-read and correct the resulting Word document? So far, 3 days to get it 1 3rd done.

There's 6 weeks till the latest revised date for the first London performance, and no one seems in any great hurry to begin rehearsals. It's that laid back socialist thing again.
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For the past 5 days I haven't been able to take a shower. This is because water has been refusing to flow down any of the plugholes in the house. Personal cleanliness has been a matter of damp cloths - cold damp cloths.

But now the mysterious blockage in the pipe has been identified as a great big gob of matted hair - presumably human and canine - and removed.

Call me effete for not being able to live without mod cons, too many computers and Google dot Com, but I am going to take an inordinately long, hot soapy shower.