Two busy and steady days of work. Prepared two paintings yesterday, listed two new albums in my regular distribution move, and started some changes to Prometheus. I noted that there have been 103 updates since 2020, but only 60 between 2002 and 2020, so this software has changed a lot recently.
This change allows a special track-level spectrum analysis render. Sometimes a song peaks in certain frequencies. It's fairly easy to work out which elements cause the bass to be high, but it's less obvious with other instruments, so I wanted an overview of every track's relative spectrum so that I could see which tracks were doing what in the mix. It's much better to EQ a track by mixing, lowering the volume of some element, or tweaking the timbre of that element, than doing anything to the whole song. Here's an example output, from 'Tainted Pain':
It shows, for example, that 113hz is the peak for the bass drums, and that the flutes are strong in 450-900hz. If the song had too much there, I could lower volume the flutes rather than messing with equalisers. I pretty much never use EQ.
Today, I completed this code and recorded some vocals, for 'Smashing My House Of Cards' and 'Tainted Pain' (which was called 'The Tainted Pain'). These are both fine I think, though the ending of Smashing may need improving, it sort of tails into a joyous flight up that stretches towards a Icarus-like forlorn hope. Both of these tracks need electric guitar work. I've not sung for some time, though I sang one song in Congleton last Wednesday. My voice was surprisingly good today, perhaps a result of other fitness work. I wonder if a heavy and dense vest, like a bullet proof vest, would improve a singing voice? More torso muscle and perhaps general size, I surmise, would grant greater vocal resonance. The evidence is in the build of opera singers.
