MySpace still hasn’t implemented the ability to import RSS feeds from other sites. As such, I cannot send this feed to MySpace. Now, I used to double post – but that’s just fucking dumb. So I stopped.
Facebook can do it. Why can’t MySpace?
Such as life.
Wellll. It’s official. New iPod Nano and iPod “Classics” are out. As in you can order them later tonight. They turned the Nano into a giant metal Triscuit. So much for aesthetics. If you want to watch a movie on your iPod, don’t get a Nano…
Pumped about the newly dubbed “Classics” though. The new iPods will be fully metal encased and start at 80 gigs. The last “big” generation was 5. I have a 5 gen and it’s only 30 gigs if that gives you a comparison – but the really exciting aspect is that it’s now financially possible to offer the “big” iPod for $370 and it’s a160 gigs. Let me give you another comparison – my 30 gig 5TH generation was a bit more than $400 shortly after launch when I bought it.
gfg Steve. I’d have waited a couple years if I could have gotten that. Oh well, that’s the tech market.
EDIT:
Alrighty then. Another announcement. The iPod “Touch”. It’s about time for a touch screen iPod. This explains the “Classic” price drop. Latest rumors are that the iPod “Touch” is completely compatible with all of the software on the iPhone. You’ll probably have to look for the usual sources on how to get the software loaded – if that’s your thing. My only issue? Size limitations on the touch. =/
For whatever reason, the software running my blog didn’t like the last article I submitted. It’s important, in my opinion, so here’s a link to the source. – http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1622009,00.html -
It all starts with an emotion. An idea that comes to life with verse. A phrase. It’s not necessarily lyrical but more often a musical phrase. You write this idea down. If it’s a guitar part you then come up with lyrics. If it’s lyrics, you figure out a guitar part. It slowly takes form as this outlet of creative energy that may have started out as a word or two in your head. You chop it up. You rewrite it musically ten times. Lyrically another ten. Finally it meshes together. Welcome to the demo phase of recording.
We’ve spent this fall preparing to record a five song E.P. The entire process starts with this sharing of ideas between the others in the band and figuring out what ideas stick. We may get lyrics written for twenty songs and music written for fifteen. The struggle is finding what goes together and making it work. All of this is the demoing stage and takes the most work in my opinion. Then you go on to final recording.
We’re currently waiting for a recording interface to arrive. We’ve got two songs left to write and three that are currently ready to be recorded. These final recordings go on to the CD. We start by recording different drum patterns that Shane comes up with based on the demo tracks. We record as many tracks as it takes and then go in and loop what we want in Ableton Live or Cubase. Each aspect of his kit can be adjusted, everything have it’s own mic, from the bass drum, snares, toms, to the hi-hat, crashes, rides, and china. We can add an effect to any aspect or every aspect of what the track’s recorded.
Next comes rhythm guitar, which is recorded not directly from the amp but from a mic’d amp using a condenser microphone which gives it a bigger sound with amazing quality cuts. Now we can loop these in with the drum parts where they need to be. Next comes bass, lead guitar, and finally vocal duties, which are the most difficult to not only record, but produce. Every thing’s tracked and ripped out later, looped how we want it to sound and then after that engineering aspect comes the production stage. So far I’ve been learning Ableton Live, but we’re all trying different programs to find what fits best.
Some days it’s a slow process. Other days it wraps up quick. But that’s a little update on what’s going on with the music aspect of life lately.
Alright… After nearly two years of tank-like service, my infallible phone has finally been destroyed for, well, a second time.The first was an accidental drop in a glass of water, after which it fought for it’s life for a couple of weeks and now my replacement (of the same model) has died due to smashing it against my steering wheel on accident while reaching for my shoe… Yeah, it was a sad way to go. So until I find out how close we are on my contract coming up so I know whether to get yet another replacement of the same type or a new phone altogether, I can’t check or send texts. I can accept incoming calls and make calls to any number I have written down or memorized, but basically my display is completely F.U.B.A.R. (Look it up on Google?) So, don’t text me and don’t yell at me for not picking up my phone… If you don’t get through, leave a message and I’ll get back to you. Thanks. 
