Back from some errands and whatnot - and dealing with a Bukowsical problem - somehow the mastering guy's computer decided to have a mind of its own and flip two tracks on the master. His order is correct in the computer, it's what I approved, but somehow in creating the actual master, it flipped two tracks - funnily on the PQ log the numbers are CORRECT - it just flipped the tracks, so you go from track four to track six to track five to track seven - again, numbers are correct, it just put them in the wrong order - it's the first time in mastering over 500 discs that this has ever happened. And no one can explain it.
We were going to just let it be, but I had him create a new master, which they'll get Monday morning. We're actually getting the CDs on Monday but I'll hold off shipping until Thursday (and then ship it and Carrie both) - and I'll have the plant replicate 300 discs-only of the fixed version, and we'll just include the fixed CD in with each order along with a little note. And I think the mastering guy will adjust his bill accordingly so that it doesn't cost us anything. Then, after we've sold past 300, we'll just replicate the fixed discs as we need them.
