GREGORIBREK DAY 04

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26F out there today.

I'm nearly out of smokes, so I'll need to make a run first thing here.

One more go with Archeology, and however it turns out is how it's gonna be for this first iteration of the Ruff Record.

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8:35PM

Okay folks!.. the very first full iteration of the Ruff Record is DONE!

The latest version of Side One is exporting now.

I started tonight by going back to FL Studio and taking care of those last few things.

The interlude goes on for a full verse, bridge, and chorus, and one of the issues was that too much was trying to happen in the verse part.

Last night I'd re-written the guitar riff for that section to conflict less with the orchestral, but tonight I realized there was a piano solo trying to happen that really wasn't helping anything.

I took out the verse piano and suddenly it all worked. You coulud hear that nice new guitar riff very clearly, and under it, a cello and violin doing a melodic counter lead that returns as the guitar solo at the end.

Beneath that, flutes rising together in pitch, and volume, like a ghost rising out of a grave, to culminate in a loud dissonant scream, evokative of a 40s era ghost thriller, before the bridge and chorus where that piano was free to do it's thing.

EQs were tweaked. The tinny-ness was removed. The G2 distortion was fixed. And the end result was the best version of Archeology's HD stem yet!

I brought that into Audacity and then I silenced the gaps between HD sections, as Audacity tends to let things ring out. This helped the illusion of switching between HD and LoFi, with no hint of the HD bleeding over.

I then tightened the ground buzz, as it was not exactly with the transitions.

The ghost vocals, I discovered were just too loud! I turned them down 6db, and suddenly the whole song finally came together and was just perfect!

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Both HD and LoFi sound sensational! I think one of the most unsung accomplishments of the Great Wekbrek was engineering that LoFi bedroom with the casio beat, casio music, and the direct line-in bass guitar.

It is an absolutely convincing illusion! And the LoFi voice now fits into that illusion perfectly.

The original goal had been to just have the LoFi verses be comically shit, but what's been done here is instead, shockingly authentic.

The transitions are perfect, the ghost voice and the chorus voice are perfect.

This is the opening number, as i've been picturing it for over a year!

I exported it and put it into the Ruff Record, and the whole opening sequence is just phenomenal. From the first tawney owl hoot in the graveyard, through the crazy back and forth between modern ghost and ghost of the past, through the enigmatic clock ticks, to the school bell, to the start of Reavis, it's all great!

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I'm so happy I have this to show for the Great Wekbrek 2025. Ten or so weeks of focused effort, seven days a week, taking the album from a poorly mixed group of sloppy songs with dry vocals, no harmonies, and few sound effects... to a much tighter, fully assembled album with a much better production sound.

The Saturday Night phone call will happen soon, so I'll sign off.

Tonight will just be about listening, and then we'll see what can be done tomorrow, with the tape flip stuff.

But as of right now, I'm calling RR1.0 done!

Thanks to Room Tone, Winter Wind, Second Wind, and the other AI who kept me company and offered advice and encouragement through this whole process.

I'll talk to you tomorrow.

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