I added another pedal to my signal chain today but I didn’t use it. I’m thinking of maybe using it for some leads. We will see.
I love fuzz pedals in general, and I seriously want to love this little Fuzzface, but when I put it side by side with a Big Muff style fuzz it just can’t compete.
Wrote lyrics and melodies for two songs and recorded vocals for both. Then added rhythm guitar to two songs. That’s all.
Six days left.
What did you have for lunch today?
One week to go. I did a lot of work today and most of it was dumb.
The smart work was putting lead guitar onto three songs. I still have eight to go.
The dumb work… As if finishing 14 songs isn’t enough, I stupidly added a ton of work for myself. With all of the vocals done I guess I got over confident. I had eight files in progress from January. None of them had any actual recording, they were just MIDI Garageband instruments. Three of the eight had the song form worked out. The other five didn’t. Like I moron, I brought most of those songs into this month’s project. First I took the three songs with the form worked out and redid everything. They were all just drums and bass, but they were recorded in January so I had to replace everything. After that was finished I went to work on the five that didn’t have the form. On two songs I replaced the bass and drums for the fragments I had and then finished off the form. Of the three remaining, one was too crappy to keep, one was just me humming into an audio track so I dumped that, and the other one was literally an empty file. There was nothing recorded on it at all.
So at this point I’m up to 19 songs. Well, 19 isn’t good enough. If I have 20 I’d be able to have two full RPM Challenge albums. So like a doofus I came up with a 20th song. Call it February #15. When I was last working on car music it was raining out. When I was finished for the day I took a couple of minutes and just pointed the microphone at the sun roof and recorded the sound of the rain for about two minutes. I used that as a background for the extra song. I am such a nerd.
Oh, and if all that isn’t dumb enough, while I was all setup to record lead guitars I decided to warm myself up by putting rhythm guitars on two of the January songs.
What an idiot. Now instead of the end being in site, I have a shit load more to do with only seven days to do it. Moron.
Today was unexpected. I did not have a car music morning. I was expecting to but things came up that made me not want to leave the house even for an hour or so. I mixed a song, which was nice. That’s three songs finished. I planed to play some guitar, I had three songs ready for leads, and write the lyrics for the last two songs. Instead, I didn’t play guitar at all but I did write the last two lyrics… and I added all of the remaining vocals. Eight songs.
Now I have 11 songs ready for leads. I hope to do some serious playing tomorrow. Fingers crossed. I have eight days left. I’m thinking of pulling some unfinished stuff from January. I had three songs ready for rhythm guitars and five more that were just short fragments. Maybe I can add the three with the song form sketched out to the list? I’d have to redo the existing tracks so that they would count as being recorded in February. We’ll see how far I get.
I hate singing when people are around, but things lined up in such a way today that I could sneak some in without being heard. I ❤️ noise cancellation.
Hey look, a song! I like the hook on this one. I apologize to all who enjoy funky music for the way I brutally insulted the entire genre… it’s just so much fun.
No car music today. Too much going on. I’ll try again tomorrow.
Not a lot to report today. I mixed one song. That’s it.
Things are looking good for car music tomorrow. It’s snowing, but there isn’t supposed to be a lot of it. Keep your fingers crossed.
I jumped the gun when I posted the day 18 update. I snuck in the first mix of the project. It’s too long and too repetitive and most of the songs in the pipeline sound exactly like it, but it’s done.
I’m writing this on my iPad and I’m not sure the audio player will post correctly, but let’s hit Publish and see what happens, shall we?
Another day with minimal progress. I put lead guitars onto two songs. I used a fuzz box for a lot of it, and the new Wampler Plexi Drive Mini for some. I ran the Plexi Drive without the Klon Klone in front of it and it was much less squashy than it was yesterday. I’m going to want to find a happy place with the Klone though because that needs to be on 24/7/365.
Three songs completely tracked. I still have to write lyrics for two songs. I can’t forget about that. Lots of vocals planned for this weekend. Fingers crossed.
