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August 11, 2003:

THE MIX MASTER

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Well, dear readers, I was so thrilled to get home from a very long day and evening’s mixing session to find well over one hundred posts. We’ve never done anything close to that on a Sunday before and you should all be proud as peacocks dressed in rubber – a special thanks to dear reader William E. Lurie for being the cheerleader, complete with pom-poms. We really do have the spiffiest batch of people here at haineshisway.com and we put all other sites to shame, I tell you, to shame.

What a long session it was, but the results are wonderful. Vinnie came over at three and put the hot fudge on the premixes and it all sounds splendidly splendid and I think I am very pleased with this CD. It was lovely to work with Vinnie again – it’s been way too long, and he really is the best. He helped every mix and added the sparkle and sheen that I both need and love. I’ve come up with a tentative order, which I’ll listen to tomorrow night. If it works, voila, if not, I’ll finesse it until it does.

Someone asked what the difference between IB Technicolor and three-strip Technicolor is/was. Three-strip was a photographic process and IB is a printing process. The three-strip process was abandoned in the early fifties (it was very very unwieldy) and everything after that was shot on some form of Eastman color stock. The IB printing process was a dye transfer process which yielded extraordinary prints, rich and vivid in color. Eastman, by comparison, didn’t have near the luster. And the big difference is that Eastman color faded within years, faded to ugly brown, whereas IB Technicolor never faded. Interestingly, transfers made from original IB prints aren’t so hot, because the prints are too dense to transfer well. IB printing continued until 1974 (I believe the last two films to be printed in IB in the US were Chinatown and Godfather II). Technicolor then sold their machines to Red China. England still printed in Tech up through Star Wars, I believe. A new Eastman stock came out in the early eighties called LPP, and that stock has proven to be very stable with no color fading occurring. That’s probably more than you needed to know. In any case, the US now has a couple of IB machines, and they’ve been doing small runs on certain films. All the Wizard prints of the last twenty-five years have been off an Eastman internegative, printed on Eastman stock. So, those prints didn’t have the incredible density of color that IB prints have. For the 2000 showings of Wizard, 50 prints were run off in IB and they were made from a nitrate source and they are astonishing and breathtaking and must be seen to be believed.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must amscray but quick.

If you missed any of the goings on here over the weekend, do use the Unseemly Archive Button so you can catch up on all the merriment and mirth and laughter and legs. Don’t forget, Donald has a brand spanking new radio show up, there’s a new double entry to Juliana’s Journal up, and our Unseemly Live Chat is tonight at six o’clock Pacific Mean Daylight Savings Time. Be there or be round.

I am very tired this morning, but that’s what happens when one works a ten-hour day when one is supposed to have said day to relax. I shall try to relax at work today, but today may not be a day in which I can relax at work. Next weekend, however, I shall relax until the cows come home. I’m so tired that I just nodded off before I could start the next paragraph.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must work all the livelong day (and relax, if possible), I must lunch, I must write, and I must come home and sleep all the livelong night. Today’s topic of discussion: We talk a lot about songs – what are your favorite songs sans words? Not classical pieces – popular music sans words. You can use songs that started out as instrumentals or which found their fame as instrumentals – even though they may have had words added later, i.e. Theme from Exodus. Another example would be Stranger on the Shore, one of my favorites. Let’s have loads of lovely posts for me to read and relax to today, shall we? I’ll be checking in often.

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