This past Weekend was my first time to listen to Cowboy Smoke all the way through with the completed sound and I must admit that I was blown away. Aaron Horne, Crystal Farnam, and Ted Scissors over at Four Eyes Studios have done an amazing job. I can honestly say that this film has been elevated to another level by the work they’ve done. Other than cleaning up some muddy dialogue and dropping in a few ambient tracks here and there, they are finished with sound design. Once the music is locked Aaron, myself, Brian (our composer) and Fagan (producer) will meet up for the final mixing of the sound. Aaron will be doing a stereo mix as well as a Dolby surround sound mix and this should all take place at the end of the month.

Here are some notes from Brian’s online blog:

Tomorrow morning I head into the studio to record the violin parts for the first batch of cues which comprises about a third or more of the total score. I can’t wait to hear what Javier will do with the parts. I’ve been hearing sampled violin tracks this whole time and honestly they sound halfway decent but when I get my first listen of Javier it’s going to elevate each cue into the stratosphere. Tonight I’ve got one more violin part to transcribe before tomorrow morning. I finished up another cue today which brings the total to eight we’ll record tomorrow. I’m also deep into composing the end credits which I’m really excited about. For the first time in the whole film I’m able to really open up with the main theme. It doesn’t really get the opportunity to shine quite like it will in the closing credit sequence. It’ll have the most tracks and be one of the longer cues in the score. I love going into the studio. It’ll be a short visit but I’ll savor every minute of it. More to Come!!!

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