Rediscovery Of A CD – Julia Wade
Friday, July 10th, 2009By the time I’m finished producing an album, I don’t ever want to hear it again – at least for a year. It’s not that I don’t like it; it’s just that I’ve heard it – over and over and over again, way too many times for any human.
Alabado sea Dios
The process of creation demands the repetition. Often I’ve also written the songs, or some of them anyway, and that only increases the ear and brain fatigue. Repetition is definitely a large part of the writing, producing, engineering process, and since I do all three, that also extends the repetition.
On top of it all, by the time I’m deeply into the making of a CD, the songs go coursing through my brain all night as well, over and over while I sleep just to add to the number.
So when I listen to that last master reference copy back from my masterer and approve it as final, I always breathe a sigh of relief that the prolonged grind is finally over. If you were to ask me to listen to a CD that I produced when it comes in from the manufacturer, I would go screaming into the night.
Last night, while testing the ecommerce end of the new Watchfire Music site, I arbitrarily decided to download El Amor from Julia Wade’s Spanish CD, Alabado sea Dios. Thrilled by the simple and intuitive process of purchasing and downloading, (a blatant plug) I decided to check the MP3 download as well.
