Last week the wife of the director of AVEX TRAX came by to see the studio.
What a nice surprise! All of a sudden on a Thursday evening when I was working
on a closet door in the warehouse, and M had the contents of ten drawers out for
reorganization, the call came in... can we come around in 5 minutes?
Sure! We'll just throw everything in the bedroom in a huge pile for now....
And we made it through! She held little baby T and listened to some techno.
What a nice lady!

yeah, well in the end I decided to use the trax as is, and do premixing.
so the mix goes throught the deck in three phases for added phatness.
business cards are on their way. time to go out and find some action.

working since yesterday on this hip hop anthem from serbian maestro S.
It is a great workout for the studio because these two remix candidates
have already been released and it is possible now to compare with the dry version
as I edit. a snafu came up in the form of 16 stereo instead of mono tracks,
and I spent about 4 hours with my finger in the dam, suffering from waves of phase distortion before finally deciding to hard pan and channel surf with automation, so there is a bit of back to the drawing board, but the results are now coming back positive, and I have inspiration to challenge the original track in the next week

After going through and confirming the functionality of the synth cabling,
I played around a bit with the korgs last night. There were a few scratchy connections in the synths,
but I managed to get them working smoothly.
This morning it occurred to me that I might try linking the SH-2 and SH-9, using the SH-9 as master.
It worked beautifully. I get a very richly textured palette to work with and got some good inspiration
for starting a new original track. CV and Gate control is very stable, the external audio input on the SH-9
allows the audio from the SH-2 to be mixed with on-board oscillators and re-filtered.
The patch bay makes hooking all these things up a breeze. Sound from the Bandmaster is Phat and Crunchy!

Man it takes a lot of cables to wire up analog synths. 32 cables to wire up 7 synths what with cv, gate, input, output, arp triggers and so-on. Fortunately I have not needed to compromise too much thanks to all the cables provided to me by my good friends at Deuce Inc.
A big shout out to those hardworking backline stage guys. Come on over and see what a great help you have been.