Lyle, enjoyed the read on that...when I did my rock cd, just a little over a year ago we bought a 24 hour block of time just to mix and master the project, that's just mix and mastering time- there is a huge difference at the cohesiveness and punch the project takes on once this is done...it ended being 26 hours to get it done, we had recorded in 3 studios , so alot of the time was spent normalizing the sessions, removing all glitches, and then peaking the punch power, it is a rock record, if ya wanna hear any of it there are samples at my cdbaby and soundclick sites it's the Ready to Fly cd...Moker