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Better Than The Book Bass time, a special April Fool's album teaser track "MLGG", reflecting on goals / new goals for April + a heads up on some downtime!

5/4/2018

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Hello everyone and I hope you all had a fantastic Easter break whatever you got up to! It was a chill weekend for me (though I took a little time to catch up on some admin work, so it wasn't completely fun and games), but now that I'm back, it's busy and deep again into recording for the upcoming Better Than The Book album (more on that in a moment)! Some cool (and silly) stuff to share this week as well as the usual reflecting on the previous month to do, so let's get started with the latest updates from JabunAudio!

First of all, some updates on the Better Than The Book album. As you may have read last week, all the rhythm guitars (electric and acoustic) for the album are now complete and since then, I've restrung my Sterling bass with a fresh set of Ernie Ball Slinkys, serviced it, and started recording bass! As it stands while I type this, 4/10 bass tracks have been recorded, comped and sorted ready for the next layer of recording and at the pace things are going, it looks like I'll be able to get 1 or 2 tracks done for each day of full recording. Fun times! 6 tracks left to go and I'm sure the next few weeks are going to be good fun! In case you're interested too, below are pictures of my Sterling, which has been my primary bass for Better Than The Book since the One Small Step EP in 2012, as well as the outboard bass recording rig for this album. It's a little smaller than usual, but super effective at delivering my punchy bass tone (and will be greatly enhanced in Ableton and Amplitube: my digital weapons of choice!). Hope you're ready for some sonic thunder on the new record!
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Next this week, I must reveal that last week's promise of a new album teaser was... only partially true! Instead though I'm super happy to finally share the abomination that is JabunAudio's first April Fool's prank (as Better than The Book & Jabun), a "vocal remix" of the 2015 instrumental track GG [Good Game]: "MLGG". With this track, you'll either get the joke or you won't but there's not much point in trying to explain it. In any case though, it seems like the whole thing was a great success and I'm super happy that people enjoyed it! To clarify though, there IS a vocal version of GG coming in the new album (just not at all like this). If you missed the prank on April Fool's Day, feel free to subject yourself to it below, though I hold no responsibility for your disgust, ripping off your headphones, general confusion, or any other negative consequences. Enjoy MLGG!

Thirdly this week, it's the beginning of another month, so let's take some time to reflect on last month's goals and set some new ones for April! For starters, here's what was on the list for March:

1) Service all the guitars ready to start recording.
2) Finish the A P O T H E O S I S  Final Boss Theme.
3) Record all the main rhythm electric guitar parts for the new BTTB album.

And looking back at it, it seems like March managed to achieve all that and more! Guitars (and bass) have all been serviced now, the A P O T H E O S I S  Final Boss Theme was finished and released, and all the rhythm guitars for the new BTTB album were recorded too, both electric and acoustic! Excellent! Now that we're back on track, let's set some new goals for April:

1) Finish recording bass for the new BTTB album (including comping and sorting takes)
2) Update the JabunAudio website (There are some updates I've been planning)
3) Do my yearly tax return (joy...)
4) Set up a Patreon for my music (I've been meaning to do that for quite some time)

Perhaps this will be more of a challenge than last month to complete, but let's see how we do and reflect on things as and when! Any goals you're setting for yourself this month? Feel free to leave it in the comments so we can keep each other accountable. Wish me luck!

And finally for this week's news, just a heads up on some downtime. As you may already know, April 24th is my Birthday and I'll be taking a trip back to my hometown to celebrate with friends and family as usual. As such, JabunAudio will be closed from April 20th - April 29th, and will reopen on April 30th ready to start up again for May. As such, there will be no blog post on April 26th either. Apologies for any inconvenience, hope you don't miss me too much, and I look forward to working with you again soon.

That about wraps things up for this week! It's back to bass recording for me (until it's all finished) then I have some admin work to catch up on. Exciting times! Hope you all have a great week until the next blog post and as always, thanks for supporting JabunAudio and my various projects. Until next time, take care! 
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Cyber link
5/4/2018 20:04:27

Yearly tax returns are always a highlight! XD

Impressed by how realistic goals you set for yourself each month though, actually managing the ones you put out... still gotta master that (some pun on how you already know mastering though). Mine is... hmm, I need to prioritize. Too massive missions to properly formulate within an accomplishable monthly span.

Good luck though, and hope you have a good trip, though it's a way off yet!

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Jabun
6/4/2018 09:45:02

Many thanks :) (Babum tsst at the pun too!). I actually set more goals than these but I focus on the ones I broadcast, then anything extra is a bonus. (The main one is not to get behind schedule on the album recording) Thanks for sharing your goals too. Perhaps just pick one thing to focus on and see how you do? I'm sure you'll do well :)

Thanks, and although it seems a way off yet, it's actually only 2 weeks today until I head off, so that's 2 weeks to get all the above done (busy busy)! Only 5 bass tracks left as I write this though, so hopefully should have those all sorted by the end of next week, then I can focus on all the admin stuff! Thanks again!

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Cyber link
6/4/2018 11:17:55

Good to know! Any of those that carry over from one month's hidden' goals to the next month's visible ones?

Well I'm not sure I really shared any goals here! XD But maybe next month I'll have them sorted out a bit. They're all pretty much catch-up goals like: go through all broken links on the site. Which are probably a few thousand links at this point so... we'll see how that goes. Definitely seems like they'd be easier to achieve when properly picked out; formulated like this.

Two weeks sounds like such a long short time though. XD But sometimes time does just disappear somewhere. Unexpected. Hope all goes as per plan.

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Jabun
6/4/2018 16:42:11

Indeed they do... Patreon was actually a goal for last month, but I didn't have time to set it up (Prioritised guitar recording instead).

Hehe, sounds like a good plan. A few thousand sounds like a lot to sort out though. Best of luck :)

I know what you mean XD Well only 3 bass tracks to do now (got 2 done today), so perhaps I'll be able to finish those before the next blog post! Admin stuff, I imagine will take a while though and be much less fun... We'll see how it all goes :)

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Cyber link
6/4/2018 20:33:22

Ah cool. That's one goal that shouldn't take all that long too. :)

Yupp, it's kinda... boring work too. :P Keeps getting pushed back thus! Thanks.

Hope for the best!

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Jabun
7/4/2018 10:53:46

I'm not so sure, it sounds about as hard as setting up a webpage, so the difficulty is making a GOOD Patreon page XD

Doesn't sound like the most exciting work, I can see why it keeps getting pushed back. All the best for you too!

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Cyber link
7/4/2018 11:24:37

Well I've set up one myself, really really fast, so at least getting the page up shouldn't be difficult but... indeed, making a good one's a whole new challenge! :D Appealing perks and all.

Not the most exciting sounds like an understatement. XD It's like the plumbing of website maintenance... thanks though!

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Jabun
7/4/2018 11:50:52

Ah, seems like your sentiment matches my expectations. Sounds like it's time for some research!

Hehe, good analogy! No worries :)

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