Elliott shot me a few text messages yesterday about Valhalla, which he seemed to enjoy, though there are volume issues from track to track. I was aware that it might be an issue, but neglected to do anything about it. Just know these things: everything is set to boost its volume by 100% when you load it into iTunes. The insturmental tracks DO NOT need to be increased, but most things with vocals do. It boils down to the difference between Reason’s mastering and GarageBand’s normalizing.

It seems both needlessly authentic and horribly stupid to use GarageBand for vocals, but my laptop can’t run all the programs I use and still take ProTools (Celtex, Adobe Creative Suite, Final Draft, iLife, Swich, Various converters and encoders, CyberDuck, etc.)

None of this matters, except that Valhalla’s release date just happened because Jess and I have been fucking around with recording. I was smoking a cigarette with Jess out back of the Lashly house and said: “I think I’ll release Valhalla today.” Jess laughed, then we came back in and listened to some of the shit we’ve been recording.

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