Production work on 'Ponderous Tomes' for the new Fall in Green album today. This took an hour or so, quite simple, although the loud 'Santur' instrument is quite a clang compared to the piano.
The main job of the day was visiting each of the 77 song files which included the old Watergate plugins, and manually replacing them with Firegate. Firegate sounds a little smoother because it has a more accurate and reliable gate, and it has more tangible settings; correct thresholds, gate times in millisecs. Watergate had more arbitrary settings, so it's good to replace it, but it meant hand tuning each use of it. Now it is 22:12, and the job is done. I can now remove Watergate and Engram Watergate from Prometheus.
The secret of becoming good at recording and producing music is years and years and years of work, which in my case is at least 50% programming the tools.
Onwards.
