A slower day of admin work on the album after a late listen and a few small changes to the balancing. This step necessarily, or at least benefits from, work over several days so that each listen sounds 'anew'.
Now have a list of other album related jobs, many completed today: Making a lyrics booklet and image pages for the lyrics for each track, publishing the cover design on Society 6 (not that I've ever, in 20 years, had a sale of album artwork).
Once the final mix is complete I can delete most of the source waves. I don't keep them all, only those that might be interesting for historical purposes or useful in future. Any recordings used in the actual sequences can be saved out by Prometheus if needed. I do, however, note a list of all of the waves in all of these folders, in case that information is needed to know what was actually there. This process takes about a day. The album artwork itself is as good as finalised.
I also need to film some subtitled lyrics videos, and prepare the looping Spotify Canvas videos. I'll probably make full-screen versions of these for YouTube too, for the first time, though I could relatively easily modify all of the existing ones to create a 'square' video for YouTube anyway. Many albums now have these little looping videos.
Another step is the music notation of this, and at least one older album. That usually takes about a week. All for the glory of art, the reward is the feeling of doing my best. This feeling is a key drive of life. We are at our most happy when doing our best in our sphere, then doing this better yet.
