Attention Slaves of Me
There are a couple of projects I’ve been meaning to take care of for a long time, and I think it’s time to admit I don’t have room for them. It would be extremely awesome if there was someone out there with a little audio expertise who wanted to help out with these things – it doesn’t have to be someone with a world-class studio and golden ears, though ideally it would not be somebody who doesn’t know what they’re doing at all. These would both take a lot of time, so I’m not against paying actual money to have them done. I can also pay with free merch, music and eternal thanks.
1) I’d like to start making some live recordings available. I have several recorded shows on CD of varying quality, but they all need to be trimmed into individual songs and could certainly stand a little mastering. I tried doing this myself with one show and it took many hours and still sounded bad. I would probably put these into my store, but I’d also want to use this Discrevolt site to sell them (I print fancy cards to sell at shows for 5 bucks that have a code that lets you download live tracks from my Discrevolt store).
2) I would love to make all source tracks from all songs freely available for people to play with – remixes, mashups, etc. Of course I have all the Pro Tools sessions right here on my hard drive, but the time it takes to export all the tracks and upload it to somewhere like ccMixter is a little daunting.
If anyone’s interested in working on either or both of these things, let me know and we’ll talk about how it would work.
Octopus, Session 3
Today 11ish EST: some vocals, maybe some shiny extras for extra shininess depending on how long the vocals take. I can’t believe I used to do this every week. Watch on my site or here.
Done for the day, mostly done with the song I think. I’ll let the mix sit overnight and see how it sounds tomorrow, there may be room for another tweak or two.
How I Did It Comic
Len sends in this comic encapsulation of my long post about my quick and easy path to internet superstardom. You may want to click on it to get to the larger (and actually readable) size. The Paul and Storm likenesses are uncanny.
Octopus, Session 2
So I’m going to try this again – you can see the live stream at the top of the main page of my site, or you can go to http://ustream.tv/channel/joco-in-a-bubble where there’s a chat room and some other fancy stuff. Those of you who watched last time know the song is called Octopus, and it’s maybe about an Octopus or something (not really – it’s a metaphor!). I hope to nail down a bridge this afternoon.
Audio and video may be in and out again, we’ll see what happens.
OK: bridge is mostly there, needs words, a little more instrumentation to bring it in and out, but it’s mostly there. Next stop, vocals. Also maybe finish writing the lyrics. I may be able to tackle this tomorrow….
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