Our To Do List

OK, Mark and I have the material for a new CD, so we thought it would be interesting to write how we went about it.

So.... here's what we need to do, and what we've done so far:

- Choose how we're going to record it (done)
- Select material to record (done)
- Go into studio and record initial takes of us playing together (done)
- Patch up any typo's in the playing (initial pass done for both melodeon and violin parts - mercifully little to do)
- Edit out excess clicks and pops from tracks
- Initial mix and equalisation; produce draft recording
- Choose CD design and produce artwork
- Finalise mix and equalisation
- Select final tracks and track order
- Get MCPS copyright approval for tracks written by known authors
- Mastering
- Select CD production company
- Get artwork into final format for publishing
- Manufacture CDs

... and of course, not forgetting, the hardest task of all, naming the CD!