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.
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.
I published an article on my other blog about some recent news from Spotify about more IP theft coming from Spotify. Here’s a link to the blog post: https://all-about-music.ghost.io/more-bad-news-from-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.
I was finally able to upload “More Nervous Energy-250819-001” to https://mirlo.space/jaypeach53/releases, but was unsuccessful again uploading to Bandcamp.
Bandcamp’s lack of uploading via their artist app is a major puzzle and the upload feature on their website seems so 2000s design. It’s painful to use.
Time to try and figure out how I’m going to get the music to Bandcamp, though both Bandcamp and Mirlo have been busts in terms of sales. As in none, zippo, zilch.
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.
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.
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
I finally got around to hooking up the RCA plugs which are the only output jacks on the Clavinova CVP-50. Next step was to connect it up to the Zoom H8 portable digital recorder to see if the RCA plugs were connected to the right connectors on the Clavinova. At this point, the recorder was showing signal from the Clavinova when I started the Clavinova to play some music.
So I turned on the recorder to record something and it worked! I think the recorder to connected up AUX jacks on the Clavinova, though I don’t know whether I’ve got the right and left jacks connected up correctly, because there is a difference in the signals from the Clavinova. Gotta find a mirror to look at the connectors on the Clavinova because what I’m using as a reference is the French section of the user’s manual and the section with a description of the connectors is quite small and not detailed enough.
For new viewers, here’s a site you might want to visit: https://linktr.ee/jaypeach53. It’s got links to my music and other sites that might be of interest.
