  Food. Me: Cookie Cookie Sunday. Cary: Subway Veggie Sub with bad bread. Just got back from picking up the digital proof of the album art from Cravedog. Looks pretty darn good if I do say so myself. Last night we went back in to DP3 on Tired Eyes and figured out that the problem Cary was hearing wasn't so much his nuttiness as the fact that the stereo bounce hadn't obeyed the track automation properly.
Turns out that if you bounce after having played the track all, or part of, the way through, then the automation will start with the value that it ended on and move relatively from there. The only way to make sure that you get the proper levels or pan positions or what have you all the way through is to rewind to the start of the track (thus resetting the automated values to their proper starting points) before bouncing.
We did that on Tired Eyes and everything became fixed. We did it on We Could Do Anything and the universe revealed itself as being a sane and livable place. Now, we enter the troubling neurotic/prudent zone where we have to re-output all the other mixes that didn't sound wrong to us just so we can be sure that they're right. We did that last night and now (ten hours of sanity-inducing sleep later) we are going to A-B them with the old mixes so we can see if there are any differences. Then we'll tell Jon about which tracks to go ahead with (in the meantime, he's worked on the new Tired Eyes and We Could Do Anything mixes) and he'll get a reference back to us on Wednesday.
Cravedog basically gave us to the end of the week to get the master to them to retain confidence in our ability to get the CD back when we want it. Anyway, we're on the cusp. I think probably by "Done (3)" or "Done (4)" we may actually be done. 
