so, what i want to do with this tonight is very simple, and it may be all i do with it at all - as this kind of pre-track for the interplanetary isomorphism is more or less stranded. in the end, i'll have to decide if i want to pull it back into the final product or leave it here, but for now what i need to do is just pull the vocals out and put them back in slightly more quietly.

i was still using cool edit to mix at this point, so the files were pasted on top of each other. period 3 is the last period using this method, but it's still dominant until early 2007. as mentioned many times, there are actually major benefits to this (and i'll continue to come back to it when i want something with a certain blurry sound, like the reprise to the time machine), and the material done in this period really exaggerates it, but it means i have to reline everything up in cubase from scratch to remix it on the existing hardware.

unfortunately, the vocals and guitars were both pasted in with a clip so it's not as easy as phase reversing them out - it leaves the distortion there as a relic. so, i have to rebuild it.

so, what i've done is copy the abandoned combined mix i had into cubase and then take each of the parts and put them into their own new tracks. once i've phase reversed each part out as best i can, they'll be lined up - and i can then reverse them back to where they were initially and mix them without the clipping.