That’s it kiddos, I’m done with RPM for another year! The last song has been mixed, the cover art is done and the running order is set. All I have left to do is burn a CD, print the cover, and drop it off at headquarters.
I’ll share a playlist with the final running order soon. Probably tomorrow. For now? Sleep!
That’s 10 songs kids, I can call RPM done! Now I’ve got five more to mix and then FAWM will be done plus one.
Unless I miscounted or forgot something, tracking for this year’s RPM Challenge/FAWM is complete. It should be 14 songs and one very cheesy instrumental thingie. I added a song last night before bed and finished it up today. I used my amp for the last two songs worth of guitar parts, and then re-recorded one of the other songs using the amp as well. There was one more I wanted to re-do, but I am out of time. The takes I have are okay so the song still works out. Now I have to mix the last six songs, and remix one from the other day that I think is no longer acceptable. Three days left.
The finish line is in sight for both the RPM Challenge and FAWM.
I put a very crappy vocal onto a song this morning before work. Once that song is mixed, there will be 10 songs and more than 35 minutes. Check and Check for RPM. There are also three additional songs that I hope to put vocals on tomorrow. If I can do that it will bring me up to 13 songs, one shy of a complete FAWM.
Last night, just before bed, I sketched out a little instrumental thing. It will just basically be bass and guitar trading off. Nothing terribly interesting there. However, there is a bed consisting of a looped recording of the water dripping off of our picture window into a bunch of metal pots. I recorded a couple of minutes worth of that sound and then chopped it into pieces so that it can drift around the stereo field, and every few seconds it will add more and more reverb and echo. In all it will sound tres stupid, but it counts in my book.
That means I have one guitar part to finish and three vocals, and then mix mix mix. If I am feeling dangerous tonight I might try to add another short vocal song. That would mean I have to finish four vocals by about noon tomorrow, but it might be worth a shot.
RPM now has three songs all mixed. This one is kinda dumb. The guitars are all through a real amp though, so it’s got that going for it.
I just received an email from hearthis.at basically telling me that I am a freakin’ Rock Star:
#4
Critical Massin RockCongratulations Robert,
Critical Mass is #4 of the weekly Rock ranking:
#1 Mouse and the Traps – Maid Of Sugar, Maid Of Spice by On The Flip-Side
#2 The Wig – Crackin’ Up by On The Flip-Side
#3 Mouse and the Traps – I Am The One by On The Flip-Side
#4 Critical Mass by Robert
#5 The Esquires – These Are The Tender Years by On The Flip-Side
#6 The Outcasts – 1523 Blair by On The Flip-Side
#7 The Outcasts – Smokestack Lightning by On The Flip-Side
#8 Dj MasterBeat VS The Mastermixers -the AC/DC megamix by DeeJay MasterBeat
#9 wreally wrongkey queen by Des Harmonic
#10 The Esquires – Judgement Day by On The Flip-SideListen online: https://hearthis.at/?type=trending&category=rock
Wishing you a nice weekend!
Benedikt Groß
hearthis.at
So how about that, huh? You didn’t realize you were dealing with a giant of the German Rock World, did you! Me and the Hoff, just owning all of Germany!
Granted, seeing as seven of the top 10 spots are from the same band, that might tell you more about rock music on hearthis.at than seeing a doofus like me on their weekly chart. Maybe I should check out On The Flip-Side.
Do you think this is just a way for the site to sucker people into using up my 5000 plays so that I will have to either pay up or stop uploading files? Could be.
The 2015 RPM Challenge includes actual amplified guitars. It’s a miracle. I only had a few minutes to sneak a few parts in today before digging into some serious house cleaning, but my ears are killing me!
It’s February 1st and The RPM Challenge is officially underway! Good luck to all participants.
I am ready to start as soon as I run a couple of errands. First, we are meeting a friend for breakfast. Second I need to drive home from New York. Nothing major.
I hope to watch the Super Bowl tonight with my guitar in hand and a copy of GarageBand open and running in front of me.
I also wanted to focus on a single guitar this time. If it’s going to be my Les Paul, then I need to get some strings.
…and they’re off!
Here is the Prime Meridian Mega Closer. We called it that because it used to have a great big noisy rock out ending that was just a blast. I always liked this one a lot even though there wasn’t much too it. I had to dumb a lot of it down in order to pull it off in GarageBand, but it’s still fun to play even after all these years.
This song is from my days at Northeast Broadcasting School (as an employee, not a student) and it wasn’t until the other day that I came to the conclusion that it would be physically impossible to play this song live.
Inside the Red Head's Head 