Instrumental Invasion, 11/15/23: Song pairs from 2023 albums November 16, 2023

The November 15 Instrumental Invasion on WCWP was the last show to air on Wednesday night, and the third song pair show. The theme was pairs from 2023 albums. It was an excuse to accelerate my new release backlog airplay ritual of playing six songs from a new release. Since David Benoit‘s latest release came out in February 2022, he was absent from the show. That’s eight times in 180 shows without my favorite musician. And visiting the future, I can say it ended up eight times in 182 shows.

The playlist was created on September 9, the last in a group of four I worked on. Annotations were made alongside the other three, between September 13 and 18. The talk break script was drafted on the 21st.

I recorded this show’s first hour at the office on September 27. The first segment of hour two was recorded on the 28th (while watching VoiceUnmuted [Katie Seto] on Twitch) and the last two (plus pickups) on the 29th. The pickups were to accommodate the resulting deficit upon replacing Pat Metheny‘s “Trust Your Angels” with “Morning of the Carnival.” My September 30 quality control session (prior to Katie’s charity stream) came up clean, so no further pickups were needed.

The office recordings were the first time I changed my editing technique. You may have noticed distorted audio in talk breaks in last week’s show from the third segment on. Adobe Audition‘s declicker filter worked fine at home when used broadly (for the entire file), but not at the office where I had updated to the latest edition of Audition. So, after applying denoise, I listened intently for mouth clicks and other noises to filter out as I edited. I have since updated all my Adobe programs at home and have the same problem, meaning I have to use the same technique there.

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