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I've been writing/recording my next album for the past 10 years. My first album had the greatest songs I'd ever written. Which means this next album has to contain all new songs. And that's been a bit of a pain in my rear end. Share your progress! Have you got the songs picked out? Are you going into a studio, or are you doing the home-studio thing? Or a mix of both? So far, I've recorded my next album four times. Not happy with any of them, not happy enough to make public. SO NOW, I'm starting all over again, writing all new songs. What are YOU doing with YOUR life?
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LargeHadron posted:Being serious? 10 years? I've written and recorded my first album over the course of this year, and I'm waiting on the producer/engineer/whatever to finish mixing it. It'll be pretty good. Well that's my story. My first album took maybe 6 months to record, another 6 months until the CD release party. And, even though EVERYONE said don't book the release party til you're holding the box full of CDs in your hand, I just KNEW my CD was the exception to that rule. I was wrong. I've sold enough CDs for it to go plastic. I recorded it in a great recording studio in Atlanta, after sharing some of my demos with them. They offered me a deal, they'd go in with me on the CD, share profits and if I got a record deal out of it, they'd get points. I had it mastered by Rodney Mills, who mastered a TON of albums, (while I was there he talked about mastering Back In Black, he had a version that wasn't brickwalled, and I was dying to get a copy, he never shared it). This might be my favorite from the CD. That's the fifth, or fiftieth guitar solo (3:15) I recorded and the engineer refused to let me do it over again. Wisely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1seBLLuXht4 I never got a record deal, so basically I got a TON of studio time in a great studio for super cheap. I've got friends/fans who'll shoot me a message that they still have the CD in their player in their car, or it pops up on Pandora or Spotify, but for the most part, the CD never went anywhere, due entirely to my own lack of commitment. My goal was always to just remain a local artist, playing gigs when/where I wanted, (family, day job was first priority). So overall, the experience was fantastic. The CD itself sounds drat good to me. I should have done a lot more to promote it, should've taken myself more seriously. Unfortunately, I started having a lot more fun with open bar tabs and nose candy. I don't regret it, but I'm not too motivated to get out there and do it again - despite wanting to do another CD just because I loved the experience of the first one. Didn't mean to talk so much about my own crap, honest. More interested in other musician's recording stories.
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Sep 20, 2017 18:35
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The Science Goy posted:Our album/EP (over 40 minutes so it's kind of an album?) was released a few minutes ago! Spotify link Holy poo poo that studio is nice. Gonna go check out the record now.
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Sep 29, 2017 13:21
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Morning Bell posted:here is a pedalboard
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Oct 17, 2017 16:12
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Sorry - never saw this post. I have no idea how they did it - it's through CD Baby, I think?
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Oct 31, 2017 16:34
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magnificent7 posted:I've been writing/recording my next album for the past 10 years. So, 4 years later, here's an update I never expected. My 19-yr-old son started recording/publishing songs during the lockdown last year. In november 2020, he was offered a record deal. He signed it last month. He's got tiktoks with 300,000 views, he's made like $1000 off of SPOTIFY, with over 30,000 monthly listeners on there. https://open.spotify.com/artist/22bvUzi8MgkpSKBWGB2vTJ edit: in the space of 18 months, he's released maybe 3 albums/EPs. I still haven't finished my album. magnificent7 fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Nov 29, 2021 |
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Nov 29, 2021 19:11
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I think it's fine, but there's a legendary thread stickied: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2292898
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Dec 1, 2021 16:59
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