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Thanks for the considered reply. Lot’s of good advice for someone intending to up their game.
At the end of the process we control the quality of the work.
And to be honest, I’m perfectly willing to. Give up on a few hours of effort as “close enough” to
A concept and just move on because the end state is not my goal… it’s just finding some flow in the creative process. When it becomes work, I tend to bail unless I get hit with a new concept or take. So, I push out sketches… just exercises in craft that may have significant loose ends.
For me, I can go back to my SoundCloud and just make a playlist of months of sketches and
Use that as a way to gauge progress with my tools and hear something with fresh ears.
I do come here for the community and I’ve made a few friends, encouraged more work from people I see that might benefit from solid praise. I traffic in praise as a general rule because few are truly seeking advice on a dozen things to change.
I look forward to more of your work. It’s great to see you use this forum as an outlet for your marketing and always good to get your input. You represent the era of the solo artist that embraced technology and disintermediated the “record company” gatekeepers and took your art direct to the consumer. Control is worth protecting in art and thankfully our technology has removed dozens of barriers to access to an audience with high quality work.
Please mention your influences.. I like comments from creators vs the steady documenting of app disappointments. I come here for inspiration about creating and less for the tech support tips and alerts.
Certainly there's a place for "sketches". And I do that too sometimes. I will say that if I do share anything in sketchy form, I try to keep it brief, a minute or so.
But the question was something about something "so tight," which I confess I never thought of as "tight" but just doing what needs to be done for a given situation.
I absolutely agree with you here. Community is great, and I agree that people improve much more from praise.
I think it's just that the industry has radically evolved from the old models. The biggest downside is the artist trying market their own stuff. It just feels wrong coming from the artist. If it comes from ANY other source, any other person, it's a whole different feeling. Purchases, patron-type support, are vitally important, and help a lot. But if you don't want to do that, or are unable to do that, but you like something you hear, simply spreading the word helps so much.
We are all fatigued with hearing "please, like, share, subscribe", but that small thing is something the artist can't do without help from the online community. And one aspect of it that changed recently, that I never even knew about, is that without 1000 subscribers on Youtube, somebody else can run ADS on YOUR original, copyrighted material. I don't know if I ever have any hope of getting to 1000 subscribers, but that's my main motivation, just to stop the adbots and get some control over my own content.
I recently got notification of this small achievement:
I don't want to be one of those "please subscribe" people, and I'm not trying to spam anybody, and you won't get bombarded with notifications... I don't even care if you click the little bell... I just want to stop the Ads! If you'd like to help crush the Evil Corp Ad Bots, please subscribe! Only 900 more to go! :-)
I hesitate to do that because generally I want people to have their own associations, and I don't want my associations to influence this listener's associations and change the way they hear it. In fact, I try NOT to think about influences. I definitely DON'T think about it during the process, usually. I just try to get out of the way and let the creative process emerge. Then afterward I might hear things that remind me of other artists that I've heard over many years as a listener and make certain associations, as does any listener.
Having said that, kinda see this piece as a combination of Smokey Robinson, Led Zeppelin, The Doobie Brothers, and The Beach Boys. Hopefully all of that smudges together enough that it doesn't sound like any of that and just is an expression of oneself.
Given the music you have shared in the forum, I’m gobsmacked to imagine you in a metal band. What flavor of metal was it?
All girl heavy metal band. 90s metal, NY hardcore, thrash, death metal, I guess.. I never really attempted to define it. Song titles included: "My Worst Enemy," "Death Haiku," "Sucker For A Guitar," "St. Galileo," "My Fury," "The Beginning Of The End"... Nothing but crude cassette demos exists for any of it. Maybe someday I'll get around to recording some of that material. I still have a fondness for hard rock/metal.
I have a few scraps of metalish things out there online...
These little clips I did as products demos when I used to write for magazines demonstrate some metal influences:
This one done in 2018 during the Kavanaugh hearings has some metalish elements, kinda industrial metal:
Whoa... more music. Thanks for these.
"So Help Me" is Epic. Really kept my interest throughout.
The John Bonham tribute "demo" really sold the recreation of his sound.
iPad really killed off the market for "all-in-one" guitar boxes or did rap do that?
This is truly a well produced piece of music! Great vocals and instrumentation. Everything is so well balanced. Love the harmonies. Bravo!
Oh the venerable stomp box is bigger than ever. Some of the most addictive and best selling hardware today.. as is modular.
Thanks so much, MadeofWax !
Yeah… stomps are something most guitarists continue to covet and collect. But hopefully those nasty digital “do everything” units are a thing of the past. I have a couple and I’m not much of a guitarists… I just had discretionary income from working in the Silicon Valley in the dot.com era.
Line6 POD, Johnson something or other, a Digitech unit with 8 push buttons. Thankfully, we have much better amp sims available for $10 on IOS.
So, the purchasing tends to trend towards additional guitars emulating the serious players that collect them like trading cards.
Yes, I thing TONEX is the newest gamechanger, but I haven’t really had a chance to explore it yet. I still have quite a few of the very hardware type units you mentioned, including a Johnson J-Station, and a Rocktron Chameleon rack unit… and others. I keep them around because they each do a certain 1 or 2 things really well. I can fire them up and instantly get “that one thing” that I know so well. The one I use the most is the VoxTone Lab. Also, the Sansamp for a certain semi-clean Fender sound.
Even though I have gobs of software options, including the full Amplitube Max, etc., I still tend to prefer the hardware devices. Something about having to stop and deal with a mouse and software just doesn’t feel right when you have a guitar in your hands. Working with something like the Vox feels more like working with a real amp—real knobs, etc. Also, something like the Universal Audio OX amptop box, where you are still using a real amp, it just helps you attenuate and record.
But, l look forward to digging into TONEX. It may be the one to convert me over more to software .