PLN reframed the north star: not one release but four deliverables — {OPAL,
COSMIC} x {continuous club mix, per-track album split}. The board only tracked
OPAL, so this amendment measures both sets against the same scorecard instead
of recalling their state.
The four questions he asked, answered from the filesystem rather than memory:
boundaries are DONE for BOTH sets (OPAL ear-signed 2026-08-16, CosmicFest
2026-08-29 — 11 playhead calls plus 8 skip notes). The mix is done and
ear-reviewed for OPAL only. CosmicFest has had zero mastering: its ear pass
settled WHERE the cuts are, never HOW it sounds — there is no mix to review.
Two findings worth more than the status table.
The CosmicFest master has exactly ONE copy, and it is in ~/Downloads. 151 MB,
not on the freebox, not in Prod/. feedback_freebox_ssot says the freebox is the
SSOT for audio; an irreplaceable gig recording in a scratch directory is the
highest-risk, cheapest-to-fix item on the whole board. Filed as R-0, ahead of
all processing. Adjacent trap recorded too: Prod/cosmicfest/ and
Prod/cosmicfestv0.live1.* are the 2025 edition (files dated 2025-06-27/28) —
nothing there belongs to this release, and the names invite exactly that error.
And the tape is far better than "raw stage mic with FOH effects" implies.
Measured with ebur128 over the full 62:59: I = -25.2 LUFS, true peak -5.1 dBFS,
LRA 11.1 LU. The peak says it was recorded conservatively and is NOT clipped;
the 11.1 LU range says the desk did NOT crush the dynamics (a mangled feed lands
under 6). It is simply quiet — reaching -14 LUFS needs ~+11 dB and therefore
limiting, but that is a gain problem, not a repair job. PLN's "80/20 likely" is
reachable; what is genuinely impossible is a premix, because one stereo file has
no stems and none of OPAL's per-orbit surgery has an analogue.
The keystone follows from POSTPROD.md's own rule — "a new gig is a copy of
judge_specs/<gig>.json, never a copy of a script". That file does not exist for
CosmicFest, and BOTH of its deliverables sit downstream of it. One wrinkle to
settle while writing it: OPAL's spec assumes stems (stemsDir, stemmap, keeps,
clipsDir) and CosmicFest has none, so the stemless path must be verified rather
than assumed.
Six decisions are logged as PLN's, not the tooling's: the still-unreviewed merge
2f947c2c; whether the A2 REVOLUTION fix is worth invalidating the A1.7 signoff it
would force a re-render of; whether "Outro Dub Siren" is an album track or
mix-only; the two soft CosmicFest edges (#10, #12) inferred from skip notes
rather than called on the playhead; the rights ledger re-measured at 103 banks
(43 third_party, 31 unknown, 19 dirt_samples, 10 cleared), which gates the split
but not the mix; and artwork, still unchosen for both.
Also traced the collab thread: piment_bresilien is in BOTH sets — OPAL track 07,
already on SoundCloud, and CosmicFest #7 at 2145.6-2525.4 on a playhead call.
Its score carries one uncommitted edit, line 33, |+ note 12 becoming |- note 12.
