I'm back from a very long day of mixing. Vinnie's premixes were all very good to begin with, but we spent quite a bit of time tweaking each of them. One of the tracks was just not working for me in terms of its layers, and I ended up really simplifying it - we now may add a cello to it, just for some nice warm low end. Otherwise, everything is sounding quite good. It always takes me a few hours to get back into the vibe of mixing when I've been away from it for these long stretches. My ears have to become accustomed to hearing the details again. It took about two hours today before I was really hearing as I like to. We got eight songs finished today. Tomorrow, Vinnie will be pre-mixing the other seven, then Wednesday we'll go through this whole thing again, and I'll do any fixes on what we did today, should I hear something I don't like. The vocals comped very well and so far Mr. Haines hasn't had to come in to resing any notes yet, which is a good thing.