Shannon's Journal

[Shannon]

Just a note... we are going to be releasing this as ultrasonic/Silent, Masked/Ocean Surf and Masked/Stream. This is because of a suggestion made by Andrew that some of you cannot sleep to the ocean surf. So the stream version is going into the mix. We spent quite a bit of time picking out the base audio for this, and then mixing the final cover track. It's become a running joke around here that if you guys could see just how much work and effort we put into every little thing, you'd think 3x what we charge was cheap. The other day, we (mostly Andrew, I just kept giving him more input than he wanted) spent almost an hour working on just the drop shadow of the words that are going to appear at the top of the new website design.

Today I was working on the masked/stream version, and began to wonder if it was really worth the time and effort to vocode the base audio against the stream audio, since the stream audio is so constant in volume. I did an experiment where I produced a clip of each, and to my amazement, the vocoded clip was perfect, while I could clearly hear the vocals in the non-vocoded version. So... vocoding it is. I was going to vocode by default just in case, but that really struck home just how much better the quality is when I do things right even if it's not entirely sure that the extra effort is required.