Sadly, the title isn’t a reference to my upright bass.  As I noted previously, I’ve got one song done now, and a couple more in the queue, so I’ve been mixing in earnest.  This is proving to be the most time-consuming part of the process.  Again, anyone who knows what they’re doing is probably saying, “well, duh” right about now.

I usually have about an hour to myself each morning that I’ve been using for working on music, but a number of factors have contributed to the erosion of this time, so I’ve been making that up in the evenings.  This is typically a bad thing because in the mornings, I have to leave to go to work at a specific time, so I’m forced to stop at some point.  When I do this at night, I’m limited only by my ability to keep my eyes open.  Also, I can’t mix at low volume, or at least the volume appropriate for a house full of sleeping people.

So yeah, doghouse.  I finally put together a mix I like last night after a couple of hours of tweaking, and I got up to find my wife in the living room.  She’d taken a long nap earlier in the evening when I took the kids to the store with me, so I asked, “did that nap keep you from being able to sleep now?”  She said, “well, that and stupid organ music.”

Oops.