I did a load of recording today, then when I came to mix it it just didn’t sound right… hmmm… then I twigged that I’d recorded them on the wrong settings! Oh well, never mind.

I needed a day off today!! And it is just gorgeous weather, so went down to the beach in momochi. That’s just fantastic, I wish it could be like this all year round! Then out in the evening to watch “Troy” which was pretty good.

I’m in two minds about discussion boards. You have things like the JapanToday.com where every single post is just somebody complaining about something!! It’s always been the case with the net that people who have time to complain do, whereas most people who are getting on with things don’t have time to post so much….

Actually I got quite a lot done yesterday. After going through the computer stuff I started doing some music stuff and got some pretty funky stuff going! And I pretty much continued that today. There were lots of phonics orders today, which was cool.

Got the Japanese newsletter sent off this morning and then started editing work on a whole new series of files. On each Genki English CDs there are hundreds of voice files, which all have to be edited, trimmed, chopped and labelled by hand. It’s mind numbing work, but someone has to do it!

I produce all the the CDs here, but for the final level checks, EQ, compression etc. I send them off to a professional mastering house. This saves me a lot of stress! And today I got the final master to check before the factory starts producing the Phonics CD. It’s just like a final layer…