Thanks for your thoughts on my mastering dilemma. You’re totally right: the opportunity to watch and learn from a mastering pro in action is worth the added expense. It’s likely I’ll learn a trick or two that would improve my at-home recording.

I hit a snag when I found out that my original choice was booked solid until early December(!) which just wasn’t going to work for me. So working on a tip from a colleague, I ended up having a great conversation with Mark from Seattle Disc Mastering, who had an opening next week. Added bonus: his facility is close to Jim’s studio. So next Thursday I’ll be bringing him all the tracks in 24-bit WAV format, we’ll master the CD, and it will be officially done.

Well, the audio part at least. I’ve still got all the remaining artwork to do.

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