At home preparing Act I, A ("Goddam it, Lennie") of Mice and Men for publication, then lunch with Harriet at the local Chevy's, where we discussed various nefarious schemes involving audio, video, and websites....
Back to DVC in evening to record above. Took forever to set dynamics in the MIDI tracks -- wrote the piece back in my careful markings days, so the calibration stretched over hours. Realized that, back then, forte meant just about as loud as possible and p the reverse, so after trying levels at 100-90-80-70-60 (f-mf-mp-p-pp), recalculated to 100-80-60-40-20, which worked much better.
Took only a take each for George and Lennie, in that order, panned left and right. Set the reverb (for an almost total change) at merely default (80 room, 1 second decay), since the scene is outdoors by a pond (as opposed to my normal love-affair-with-the-cathedral 100 room and anywhere from 2-12 sec fall-off)...
Sounds like a condusive environment for future.
A few lyric mistakes, and some overmodulated shouts, but reasonably powerful, so I left it as is for now....
