More delays have cropped up in my musical endeavors. I keep a notebook of my progress and the thing has gone missing, along with my recorder, the Zoom H8. So until I figure out where I left them, and yes they’re almost inseparable, I’m up shit’s creek without a paddle. My memory doesn’t work as well as it used to and I have a habit lately of burying things under piles of junk mail.
Category: Music
More Sampling
Lately I’ve been on a kick to fill out the sample libraries I have for my Elektron Octatrack and Roland SP-404. Well, that’s been continuing now for 3-4 months now, I guess. I change between recording synths and recording drum machines. The drum machines include the Behringer RD-8 and RD9 and the Erica Synths LR-02 (think I got the model numbers right). Yeah, I know the detractors say “Ewwwwww, Behringer”, but they are close enough for my uses. And as far as I can tell, purists don’t appreciate my music anyways.
I haven’t tried putting out music made from the samples, as I usually don’t have a recorder hooked up to the sampler, usually my trusty Zoom H8. I need to finish my recording setup in my bedroom, where I plan to make a permanent home for my Tascam Model 16 mixer, so that I can make more complex music.
Music Again
Well, I’ve taken a break from doing art work and started to review the past few months of music making to see if I can scrounge up an album or EP out of the stuff I’ve done. It turns out that a lot of my output lately has been samples destined for my Elektron Octatrack or my Roland SP-404 Mk II. And the rest of my output has been in the area of noise or ‘musique concrete’. So I guess the next thing I release will be like the “Noise Revisted” album that’s on Mirlo. The link there is https://mirlo.space/jaypeach53/releases. So keep an eye out for new music. I still have to finalize the content, mix it down, and do the art work, so it may take a while.
Not really “Personal” Part 2
As a follow-up to a previous post about expensive purchases, I offer my second largest purchase, a Joe Bonamassa product which is a reproduction of a 1959 Fender Twin-Amp from his collection. It cost me north of $3,000 and is one of a series of Fender amps I’ve got.
I also have a George Benson model Fender Twin Reverb Amp that set me back a decent piece of change.
Not Much News on the Music Front
I’ve been slacking off getting music ready for release lately, like for the past month and a half. I need to review some of my past recording sessions to make a determination about the likely release candidates.
That lack of progress hasn’t deterred me from doing painting and drawing. Time to devote to using all the supplies I’ve spent all that money on.
The End of Streaming Spotify
I’ve pretty much decided to withdraw my whole catalog of 100+ songs from Shittify. I had one song removed by Shittify because, they said, it had botted streams detected. This despite major labels are guilty of using bot farms to inflate streams on a regular basis. Shittify provides no evidence of these botted streams, and after much digging, I came up with three playlists that may have been the culprits. But, alas, I tried to follow Shittify’s sketchy instructions to report the playlists but was unable to as the playlists had already been deleted.
So the next step for me, as Shittify seemingly has blacklisted me, is to remove my catalog. As you can see, that’ll be no big deal as my followers have dried up faster than a creekbed in the desert.
The numbers I do get are so pitiful that my streams aren’t monetized, so no loss, as far as I’m concerned.
New Tune Out Soon
Well, my trials with Mirlo.space continue. Five attempts to upload my new tune, full name “More Nervous Energy-250819-001” to Mirlo.space with attempts either terminated after 1/2 hour to an hour, or a relatively immediate abort with no file name given. The excuse is that the developers never thought anyone would use anything but a desktop to upload. This in the day-and-age when phones and tablets are almost as powerful as a desktop. The only excuse is that the developers still regard the software to be beta, though it seems more like late alpha software.
I hope to upload the tune to Bandcamp (https://jaypeach.bandcamp.com) tonight, and possibly upload to https://Mirlo.space from either my laptop, if it feels like working, or maybe my raspberry pi.
Made a post on Ghost.io
It’s a piece of premium content at https://all-about-music.ghost.io that kinda is a dry review of Spotify’s finances and reasons to direct your fans to other platforms.
It’s my method to see if I can get some subscribers to a slighthly different take on the music business from this blog. And monetize it as my other means of making some bucks are falling on hard times.
Haven’t figured out how Ghost as a blog/newsletter platform works, but I guess it’s a learning experience.
Guitar Explorations
I just dropped a new tune, “Guitar Explorations 250802” on Mirlo.space and am working to put it on Bandcamp. I hooked up a Fender guitar,that’s one of my favorites, to the pedal board shown and then to a Fender Twin Reverb thru the Vibrato section. Recorded on my trusty Zoom H8 and processed on my iPhone using the AUM app.
Anyway, the tune, should you be interested in listening to it, is to be found at https://mirlo.space/jaypeach53/releases and https://jaypeach.bandcamp.com
More on Mirlo
I keep reading that the way to make money off the music biz nowadays is to put your music on platforms like Mirlo and BandCamp to get fans to purchase your music instead of streaming your music from some DSP for hundreds and hundreds less money. Admittedly, this makes sense other than the market for platforms like Mirlo and BandCamp is minimal compared to the DSPs. After all, I’ve been on BandCamp for almost 5 years and have plays totaling less than one days plays on 5-6 DSPs.
