The dynamics of recording can be so extreme

Heard when making copies onto tape, clean 

One musical passage is quiet, the next so hot

You set up levels for the first, and then it's not



Going to work, for all of the pieces on the disc

So then you go back to re-record ones missed

One day, there will be a foolproof way to do it all

Then the work'll not have to be repeated by fools



Who think they know what they're doing, but don't

And over-modulate like crazy, and then they choke

When playing back recordings, hearing distortion

And realize they have to do it all again, in portions



- Tristram



Christopher W. Thomas

10:07am Sun. Jan. 25th, 98