December 2023 Blog Post: 2 solid Better Than The Book mixes are complete (12 to go), more guitar/gear videos including homemade effects, doubleneck explorations and a live Third Eye Blind cover + more!

Hi eveyone and hope you've had a great November! Another month begins and so it's time for some more Patreon rewards and news updates! 

It's been a heavy few weeks of mixing (and preparing to mix) the upcoming Better Than The Book album project! As of now, 2 mixes are solid and ready for final checks before mastering (once the other tracks are done), and the remaining 12 tracks have all been set up ready with the new session templates and presets to make the mixing process much smoother when I get to them, as well as some general ballpark mixing so I'm not starting from square one for each song, and preparing my mixing sheets with all the notes I'll need too for each track. Progress is going well, and now that the first few mixes are done, I think the pace will be picking up in the New Year as I find my flow again! It's looking to be busy month ahead with various visits and Christmas / New Year festivities, so I'll be taking things at a relaxed pace and doing what I can until the time allows, but I'm super excited to share with you what's going on and can't wait to release this album in 2024!

Next and finally for this month's news, it's onto the gear and guitar videos for the month and it's another 2-a-week packed playlist for you. This time I have another BTTB playalong, some doubleneck explorations and synth accompanied guitars jams, demonstrations of a few of my homemade effects pedals, and a full live cover of Third Eye Blind's Narcolepsy and more too Here's the usual playlist link with the added videos:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWEmqIhrNPvQTBoOjZdKLgL4ecTvLz6sm

And here's a list of the latest additions:

• Better Than The Book - Hopes and Dreams 12-String Guitar Solo Playthrough
• Trying to tame the Doubleneck Guitar (uncut exploration / practice)
• Having fun noodling on a Yamaha Pacifica guitar and Roland Aria J-6 Synth
• Right hand only guitar practice on Yamaha Pacifica and Roland Aira J-6 Synth
• I made an "Oldschool Overdrive" guitar pedal! DEMO with Vintage Modified Jaguar
• I made a Univox Super-Fuzz clone guitar pedal! DEMO with Vintage Modified Jaguar
• Homemade Univox Super-Fuzz clone guitar pedal on Bass! DEMO with Sterling SB14
• Muse - Time Is Running Out - Bass Cover with Homemade Super-Fuzz pedal clone!
• Third Eye Blind - Narcolepsy (guitar and vocal cover)

Hope you enjoy them and there's more to come every Thursday and Sunday in December!

That about wraps it up for this month, unless you're a $10 patron in which case you have the first of the solid BTTB mixes to look forward to in your rewards (the final WIP look at "Hold Me Tight (Non-Acoustic)"! It's looking to be a busy month ahead, mostly away from the studio with various celebrations and festivities so I'm hoping to complete at least one more mix + record the next month's worth of videos, but I'm not sure there'll be much time for anything else. We shall have to see! The next blog post will likely be a few days late due to the New Years celebrations, but I'll be back in January with more guitar videos and BTTB album updates at the very least! Until then, I hope you have a great December to come, enjoy any seasonal festivity fun you have planned, and thanks so much for all your support in 2023! See you in 2024, It's gonna be a big year!

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