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Another Upload

Soundcloud accepted the 192kbps mp3 file so I can post the player from that site now too. This one includes the cover “art”.

Of course I had to delete almost everything off of this soundcloud account to make room… so even this one will go away eventually. I wanted to just stick with the alonetone playlist, but they just released a huge back end rewrite of the site and most of the playlist functionality appears to be broken for now. I’ll get things up to date eventually.

NaSoAlMo – Finished

Well it’s turned out to be a pain to get it uploaded anywhere, but the final project is complete.

http://alonetone.com/robertjames1971/tracks/radio-2013-nasoalmo.mp3%20

It’s one track with a 34:41 running time. It’s supposed to sound like you’re scanning your radio dial and every 10 seconds or so you land on a song that you sit through. It’s a suite, but apart from the radio noise transitions there is no real theme. I liked the idea. I still kinda do. I can’t upload it to bandcamp.com though because the lossless compression file is way, way too big. I’ll find a way to get it onto soundcloud (maybe a new free account), but for now it has a home at alonetone.com

The Seventh and Final Crappy Song

That’s seven songs written, recorded, and mixed. All within the month of November. Look at that kids, I’ve finished NaSoAlMo!

I re-recorded just about all of this crappy song today. The one thing that wasn’t changed was the vocal. Of course, the one thing that needs to be redone is the vocal. Figures. Anyway, it sucks and I don’t care.

I’ve got an hour and a half left in the month. I am going to try to splice this garbage into a 33 minute suite thing. Yippee.

Song #6

Six songs down, one to go. That one will wait until later. This is sort of a goofy loop thing with an eight bar phrase repeating ad nauseum and a new instrument being added or removed with each repeat.

This one put me over the minimum time requirement for NaSoAlMo. It also apparently put me over the maximum for a free soundcloud.com account. Time to start deleting crap.

Oh, and did I mention that Garageband failed to give me the master reverb and echo controls for any of the tracks on this song? Good thing I wasn’t planning on using them, right? Oh wait. I was totally planning on using the hell out of them all over the place. Friggin’ Garageband.

NaSoAlMo Update – The Last Day

All of the tracking for my National Solo Album Month project is done, no thanks to GarageBand. Hey, thanks for not recording the six minute long take when I had it in record and was actually recording. It marked the region has having a recorded track but there was nothing in it. I had a nice fun moment when three separate guitar tracks magically disappeared as well. Again, screw you Garageband.

Two songs left to mix, and then I need to cut it all together into one (maybe two) audio files with sound effects acting as the transitions between songs. I should also probably put my name and the album name onto the cover photo as well. We are heading out of the house for a while in a few minutes, and i want to spend as much time hanging with the family today as possible, so the remaining work will probably be done after the kids go to bed.

No problem!