Now the final mixing starts! This is my first stab at a real mix of “I Like The Way She Cleans Erasers.” It’s labeled “Mix 0.5″ which pretty much means I don’t consider it to be final. When you start to see mix numbers like 1.0, that means I consider them final – even though The one we actually release might be adjusted further – numbered like 1.1 or higher depending on the number of iterations. A lot of times I listen to a mix the next day (what I call “the next day reality check”) and discover things like snare drums too loud or pianos too buried. If I make an adjustment at the mastering stage rather than the mix stage, it gets a number like 1.01 (this would be the first master adjustment on mix number 1.0). In our file system, you would songs numbered like 2.32 (a significant re-mix with three revisions PLUS two mastering revisions of Mix 2.3).

Ok – enough ramble and on to the song. The album is starting to take shape!

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We added guitars and bass to “I Like The Way She Cleans Erasers.”

As before, this isn’t a real mix yet – loud vocals, guitars or other stuff might pop out at any moment so be careful with your volume control!

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This song is about having a crush on your teacher.

This song, “I Like The Way She Cleans Erasers”, is the song Tom, John, and I wrote Friday night that led to the big discussion about whether we were creating an album for kids or an album about us as kids. We collectively came to the realization that we were writing two albums. After we wrote this one, we decided we’d head down “the album about us as kids” route. And once we made that decision, the concept for the album came into focus and it became a LOT easier to pick the songs for the album.

This is a “guide track plus”. The drums and vocals are the final ones we’ll be using, but everything else will disappear.

Our friends in the band Another Cultural Landslide (who are also participating in the RPMChallenge.com) tuned in to the studio webcams while we were recording vocals, took in the song, and sent us a lick/melody line right then and there. Talk about collaborating. So, when you hear the cosmic, dreamy harmonium in the background, that’s thanks to them!

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