Mastering Day
I arranged to master my first two albums at Turan Audio which
had been recommended.
It was an hour and half drive away, which made it accessible.
We planned the trip meticulously – taking the external hard drive
as back up.
Of course, there was a flaw in the plan. Spon turned over the car
engine and nothing happened. He decided that this was serious,
I rung friends for help, then we watched time start to tick away.
A neighbour eventually came into the car park and I explained
to him that we were desperate for help. He retrieved his jump
leads and proceeded to put life into our battery. We had just got
the car going when Bekky arrived with new leads which we
gratefully took with us. We motored off very relieved.
We realized that if we stopped it would be difficult to get going
again, so we pulled in at a garage and found a fitter who did a
quick job! With a new battery we arrived an hour late, which
wasnt bad considering the calamity!
At the Oxford studios we got to work almost straight away.
It was not completely straight forward as we needed to put
dialogue in between the songs, and this had been recorded
separately. Tim Turan enthusiastically embraced our concepts
and put both albums together as we envisaged them.
It was a rewarding experience to have Tim working on our
material; we got to know him a little as he shared his
fascination of space exploration with us. He told us about his
trips to NASA and showed us footage he had taken six miles
from a rocket launch - at that distance the sounds and
vibrations are awesome.
We recognized that he worked at a similar pace as ourselves and
we were happy to leave our material with him to finish mastering.
We had the masters back by post, and then jumped into the art
work for the first Album, The Limits Of Milk Weed.
Now I have time to get this blog up, phew, it’s been a long job!
