Movie's dead.

Fuckin' sucks. I'm about $15k invested in it at this point, between plugin upgrades, studio upgrades, sample library upgrades. Not to mention about two months getting the studio from 6 channels to 10. And all the bullshit involved in that. Or the three months spent actually mixing the turkey.

It was gonna be good. It sounded goddamn amazing. I had a scene in there that was stupidly preposterously meme-worthy. Fuckin' zombies meticulously composed in Envy, swirling clouds of cultist jungle PA built through granular synthesis and Radium, underwater zombie knife fights, fuckin' riduculously lush environments. Atmos is so fucking liberating to mix in. I'm pretty sure I have the smallest, cheapest, shittiest Atmos rig in the world, at least if you pare off the poseurs who are doing it in headphones like simps.

Producers want to execute the completion bond. First time I've ever heard of that happening in post; there's very little reason to take it from the incumbents - who are doing it for free - to give it to a new group who are doing it for a fee unless you need to mark a loss RIGHT NOW for accounting purposes. So ultimately the task at hand is revealed for what it is: "take this money and lose it so we can balance out capital gains elsewhere, we actually don't give the first fuck about your project."

No, I'm not getting paid, neither is anyone else. No, I don't want your fucking pity. It just fucking blows because I'm actually really goddamn good at this and I can feel in my bones that we're about a month or two from someone posting yet another "actually we like reading our movies" article.

So for now? The massive pro tools rig is being used to DJ an hour's worth of industrial music a week. Next week we're live in the studio for the first time since like 2015 which means i need to move the rig to the Least Practical Laptop and entertain people for six hours while begging for money. The "six hours while begging for money" portion isn't really a big deal but I'm extremely apprehensive about plucking my shitty DJ controller and Rekordbox install and throwing it on a macbook air.

And now it's time to reacquaint myself with the mechanical side. I had forgotten how fucking complicated this shit is. None of that is from a kit, none of that is from an eHow, none of that is from an instructables, none of that is from anyone else's advice. Which is probably why my connectors fit cables but not my "why doesn't anyone make this" cable ends so I'm gonna have to redesign the shell for the brain. Which is okay because I need to design the shell for the co-brain because this monstrosity requires an EC01 and an ECS-1 and a PAIR of 7535Ns.

Control of this machine starts at an Ethernet cable and balloons out to three DSub25s, two Dsub 15s, six Dsub 9s, two HX6s and an HX4. And EtherCAT, can't forget the EtherCAT. I gotta test all that shit.

But first I need to redesign it so the connectors fit LOL