July 2023 blog post: Better Than The Book vocal recording updates (4 tracks finished!), 9 more videos including organ, doubleneck guitar and slide guitar, an interview on the Off The Wall podcast and more!

Hi everyone and hope you've been having a great June (and keeping cool too). It's time for another post and there's some super exciting updates to share with you this month! Let's get to it!

It's been a super busy few weeks recording vocals and after some SUPER intense sessions I'm super excited to share that 4 out of the 14 tracks on the upcoming Better Than The Book project are now fully recorded! Those 4 tracks are just awaiting some minor edits and then it's just mixing and mastering (the technical stuff) left to go. I must say that recording vocals while fun has been super hard work though with a lot of redos and retakes, and especially taxing on the hot days. Here's to hoping I can keep up the stamina. It's a slow and steady race that's for sure! 10 tracks left to go (and a load of editing and mixing etc...). Keep rooting for me if you can please!

Next on the updates for this month, as with last time I've been hard at work practicing and trying to impove my instrumental craft(s) and managed to keep up with posting 2 videos a week as I've been aiming to! This time I've been dabbling in some organ, doubleneck guitar, and slide guitar! Here's a link to the updated playlist below (same one as last time):

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

And here's a full list of the new additions since last time! Enjoy:

• Octave double hammer-ons
• Farfisa style ska combo organ
• 2-Tone style ska organ
• Doubleneck guitar sympathetic resonance
• Doubleneck guitar muted sympathetic resonance
• Yamaha YC-25D organ Touch Vibrato demonstration
• Tom Morello style pick-up switch experiments on Jaguar (#Shorts version)
• Justin Johnson Style dark blues slide guitar in open D minor tuning
• Justin Johnson Style upbeat blues slide guitar in open D tuning

Next just a cool note from a collaborative project, Sif Savery has just finished her festival tour for the Tales of Zale: Flickering Lights short film we worked on last year (I was the audio mixer), and it's been super cool to see the various nominations and awards it's picked up during the tour! A huge well done to Sif and the rest of the ToZ crew and check out her post about it below: 

https://twitter.com/JabunAudio/status/1673623398373523456

Finally, I have something really exciting to share with you all. In May I was invited to be a guest on the Off The Wall Podcast on Newgrounds with Aalasteir, who interviewed me on all sorts of things! We talked about my history, workflow, thoughts on nature and art, and much more! It was my first time doing a live-recorded podcast (still edited down, but rather than a back and forth not-in-conversation recording thing like I've done before) and the whole thing ran for a little over 2 hours too which is crazy! A huge thanks to Aalasteir for having me on the show and I hope you enjoy listening to the various discussions (mostly me rambling). Check it out below:

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1226054

The podcast also got a front page feature on Newgrounds! Thanks for sharing it Newgrounds!

That about wraps things up for this month unless you're a $10 patron in which case I'm sharing with you one of those 4 fully finished Better Than The Book recordings I spoke about above: "Plot Holes (Alternative Version)"! I'm hoping to get (at least) another 3 tracks fully recorded by the next post, as well as another batch of videos, but as time closes in, I'll be away for a bit for a little stag do (and Iron Maiden) before getting married in August! Busy busy times, and there's still MUCH to sort out so we'll see how everything goes recording projects-wise. Until next time I hope you have a great July to come and thanks as always for supporting my projects however you can! All the best, enjoy the podcast and new videos and take care!

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