The Studio Log - What Did You Do In The Studio

[WatchTheGuitar]

New mic arrived, sounds pretty good, but it hasn’t turned me into someone who could successfully pull off George Michael

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

New mic arrived, sounds pretty good, but it hasn’t turned me into someone who could successfully pull off George Michael

*whisper*Autotune*whisper*



Pricing a new electric. Likely get some $500 Squier given I play horribly due to lack of practice. No need to hork up for a PRS.

[WatchTheGuitar]

I have a Squier J Mascis signature JazzMaster that I prefer way more than my ‘real’ Fender Strat.
No idea if anywhere still has any in stock, but they’re real keepers.

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

I have a Squier J Mascis signature JazzMaster that I prefer way more than my ‘real’ Fender Strat.
No idea if anywhere still has any in stock, but they’re real keepers.

I had a Squier Tele a while back, played well, sounded good.. should have kept it.

Oh well.

[ghettosynth]

I have a Squier J Mascis signature JazzMaster that I prefer way more than my ‘real’ Fender Strat.
No idea if anywhere still has any in stock, but they’re real keepers.

Love the look, hate the slide switches. I don't think that you can get any cheaper than my squire partscaster tele. It's fugly, but it's the guitar I place the most. I routed it myself and added an aftermarket nashville tele pickguard.

Not gonna lie though, I want a new guitar and I want to part with the five or six cheap things that I already have. Maybe that will happen, maybe it won't.

[WatchTheGuitar]

I have a Squier J Mascis signature JazzMaster that I prefer way more than my ‘real’ Fender Strat.
No idea if anywhere still has any in stock, but they’re real keepers.

Love the look, hate the slide switches. I don't think that you can get any cheaper than my squire partscaster tele. It's fugly, but it's the guitar I place the most. I routed it myself and added an aftermarket nashville tele pickguard.

Not gonna lie though, I want a new guitar and I want to part with the five or six cheap things that I already have. Maybe that will happen, maybe it won't.

I never use the switches, don’t like the muddy secondary circuit so don’t use it.

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

Pre-production for a new concept album....

..I have a concept, and it'll be an album!

3 month schedule, let's see if I make it...

[WatchTheGuitar]

Went to record something earlier and realised my (up to now) ever reliable MioXL MIDI interface was dead. No lights. The power adapter isn’t like any I have spare so having to order a new one in and cross my fingers that fixes it.

Replacement power supply arrived and… it works

Phew! Now I can spend the money I kept to one side in case I needed to buy a whole new interface.

[ghettosynth]

Pre-production for a new concept album....

..I have a concept, and it'll be an album!

3 month schedule, let's see if I make it...

I like doing this sort of thing. Keep us up to date. Three months is too long for me, I'll forget about it and not finish it. I like to work on a one month cycle. Isn't there something going on in Februrary? Ah yes, Googled helped, it's the RPM challenge.

https://www.rpmchallenge.com/

February it is for me. Or course, nobody will hear it, but it will definitely exist.

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

Pre-production for a new concept album....

..I have a concept, and it'll be an album!

3 month schedule, let's see if I make it...

I like doing this sort of thing. Keep us up to date. Three months is too long for me, I'll forget about it and not finish it. I like to work on a one month cycle. Isn't there something going on in Februrary? Ah yes, Googled helped, it's the RPM challenge.

https://www.rpmchallenge.com/

February it is for me. Or course, nobody will hear it, but it will definitely exist.

I dearly wish I could do things faster, but.. health issues.. so meh, I do what I can.

It's either that or go back to writing lurid romance novels!

Been rethinking things. Ambient is a small niche, not real popular even at the best of times. Been dabbling in electro and dance-able industrial, so maybe a genre shift is in the works. Or possibly some weird guitar-and-synth dance music. All my gear is severely underutilized.

Damn, I HATE existential angst!

[foosnark]

I like to work on a one month cycle. Isn't there something going on in Februrary? Ah yes, Googled helped, it's the RPM challenge.

https://www.rpmchallenge.com/

February it is for me. Or course, nobody will hear it, but it will definitely exist.

There's also FAWM. And Jamuary. And NaSoAlMo. Probably others...

I don't plan on doing any of them in 2024. I have a half-baked idea for a next album project though, and I'm probably going to dump release all my collaboration stuff from the past few years as an album on Bandcamp (I guess in celebration of the fact that Bandcamp still exists).

Ambient is a small niche, not real popular even at the best of times.

That's what I keep telling myself. My last release got me 3-4 "cool cover art," one "cool title", one "I actually like the music" and almost enough income to cover one month of Bitwig updates Maybe I should just make album covers...

[ghettosynth]

I like to work on a one month cycle. Isn't there something going on in Februrary? Ah yes, Googled helped, it's the RPM challenge.

https://www.rpmchallenge.com/

February it is for me. Or course, nobody will hear it, but it will definitely exist.

There's also FAWM. And Jamuary. And NaSoAlMo. Probably others...

Actually, Jamruary is probably the right choice for me given my latest production direction.

Ambient is a small niche, not real popular even at the best of times.

That's what I keep telling myself. My last release got me 3-4 "cool cover art," one "cool title", one "I actually like the music" and almost enough income to cover one month of Bitwig updates Maybe I should just make album covers...

Wow, people gave you actual money for ambient music? Are you sure it was real? It wasn't like a coupon or one of those fake tracts that look like a folded $20?

Sounds like there might be gold in them thar hills and I should do more ambient. Let's see now, I'll want to hit hard, so which equipment should I buy to to the top of the charts?

[cryophonik]

Sounds like there might be gold in them thar hills and I should do more ambient. Let's see now, I'll want to hit hard, so which equipment should I buy to to the top of the charts?

For ambient? Reverbs. All of them.

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

I like to work on a one month cycle. Isn't there something going on in Februrary? Ah yes, Googled helped, it's the RPM challenge.

https://www.rpmchallenge.com/

February it is for me. Or course, nobody will hear it, but it will definitely exist.

There's also FAWM. And Jamuary. And NaSoAlMo. Probably others...

I don't plan on doing any of them in 2024. I have a half-baked idea for a next album project though, and I'm probably going to dump release all my collaboration stuff from the past few years as an album on Bandcamp (I guess in celebration of the fact that Bandcamp still exists).

Ambient is a small niche, not real popular even at the best of times.

That's what I keep telling myself. My last release got me 3-4 "cool cover art," one "cool title", one "I actually like the music" and almost enough income to cover one month of Bitwig updates Maybe I should just make album covers...

I admit it's pretty discouraging, at least for me.

Adding videos seems to have little effect on listens, as well. But I do those for... fun? The challenge? Masochism?

Time to work on an experimental frying pan track...

[elxsound]

Hmmm is the rpm challenge a fun one?

I’m going to participate again with Jamuaries but I want to lead into one of the February projects. So, more jammyness in January this time around and some polish in February