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the walk to the lighthouse

By cistern stairs on July 24, 2026 8:37 pm

Week 30
Goal at start 7/22
Unfortunately I'm already experiencing a lot of exhaustion this week. I'll be glad if I can get anything down. I'll try to do something simple and if there's any time left after work on some other music related projects.

End notes 7/24
About ⅓  of the time spent on this was composing and the other 2/3rds was trying to tame the reverbs and volume peaks. The first instrument that comes in originally sounded more like a piano but for some reason the chorus on it was causing crazy volume/distortion peaks. I had to dial it back to the point that the sound turned into more of a string pluck. My LUFS reading was -25 but the song as a whole was still coming through as uncommonly loud even with my computer and DAW set to half volume. Eventually I just had to give it up and move on.

Goal for next week:
Start by Tuesday. Don’t let Tuesday slip by and start on Wednesday which has happened the past several weeks. Start earlier and try to do something more complex that has drums.

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