Monthly Archives: May 2011

Updates, Dirty Pots, etc

Spent most of the day going through updating some press contacts & looking for new ones.  Now my eyes are a little sore.

I was messing with my guitar rig & I found one of my audio problems was being …

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Promo Updates, Twitter, Dreams

I am doing some updates to my promo list.  Takes longer than expected.  I also finally found something I can use Twitter for that is useful as far as making new connections.  I can find bloggers that would be into …

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Piracy Give Up, Russian Pop, Apparel/Swag

Okay, so I’ve been using PCs since 1984 (my dad was a computer dude, so we were pretty early adapters on that).  My first 25 years using them I got two viruses (one in 1999 & one in 2003).  A …

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  1. GoddakkATTACK says:

    well now you can just think the way i do. People that are using these piracy sites probably never were going to pay for your music any ways.

USB mic, Music Supervisors, Remora Remix, Dream

So I tried out the USB mic I got the other day & it doesn’t work as I thought it would.  I thought it would act as it’s own input device, but instead it still goes through my soundcard & …

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Remora Art & a couple other things

Did some work on the Remora artwork. Not sure if page 2 should be gridded instead of placed randomly, let me know what you think.  But I’m getting close to sending it for manufacturing – http://www.silbermedia.com/remora/remora-scars-cover.pdf

The  air conditioning is …

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Black Cat Moan & boring stuff.

So I got the wah pedal I was looking for.  It’s a Rocktron Black Cat Moan.  It sounds pretty nasty & I really like it a lot.

Still working on the promo for the new releases.  Did some more physical …

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  1. Peter says:

    Glad you like your wah pedal. I was gonna lend you mine indefinitely.

    • Well, I tried a Crybaby (I think that’s what yours is) at the Bird Noise Studio & if I hadn’t also played with the Snarling Dogs pedal I probably wouldn’t have bothered getting a new wah. I actually have that Digitech one that has a switch that it can be a wah or volume pedal, but it crapped out sitting in the basement unused & it was always pretty crappy in a non-good way.

Commision, Promo, End of the World

So I started working on my Russian pop song cover.  I ran into a problem that I was trying to get some samples off the original song & I couldn’t get the file to open in my ancient Sound Forge.  …

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  1. GoddakkAttack says:

    are you doing a TATU song? I hope so.

  2. I don’t know who TATU is? The song I am doing is here – http://youtu.be/q8Il2rhe3MI – they won’t let me embed it because you know how Russians hate music piracy.

Promos, Music Networks, Remora Art, Clang Quartet Interview

So I read this article over at Music Think Tank about how to run your free MP3 promotions.  Not sure if I should actually change things around to fit it or not, but it’s probably worth any musician reading.

I’m …

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  1. GoddakkAttack says:

    How do they rate the sites?

    I’m sure Myspace still gets a lot of traffic but i’m thinking that it’s all people using it to spam one another and not legitimately in use. Considering what a pain in the ass it is for pages to load etc. . … I have a hard time believing an average person could be bothered. Which is why i think a lot of people went to the FB.

    In regards to RN & BC, i don’t think that it can be used the same as Myspace and therefore can’t really be judged the same. Both of them are more or less a place to put music and info and then direct people to it, whereas Myspace had more of a community approach, with people collecting, networking etc.

    You don’t really log onto Bandcamp and hope to stumble across bands you might like. You go there to check out bands you already know via links you find. Not to virtually hang out. the thing with myspace is that it was a place for people to pretend like they had friends and send messages and post goofy shit like FB today. Neither BC or RN are really for that, they’re more or less music driven. Sort of the same with most marketing campaign’s you gotta get the attention of people that really don’t give a shit about music and make them think that they do.

    Soundcloud is a good tool but for some reason i don’t like using it, i think it’s more the feel of the site or possibly the look. I should mess with it more.

  2. They’re rated by hits (not pageviews or time spent on site) & I know that MySpace has a lot of images on a page (more files is more hits), but so do Reverbnation & Bandcamp so they should be comparable. Soundcloud is the thing that really surprised me. Because if anything they are the most music centric of sites & it seems like they are the one with the least buzz. Then again, they are also the only one of those three that I think works with major labels & that probably is what all the traffic was really caused by for MySpace. Before MySpace worked with all the major labels you didn’t see housewives & businessmen excited about it.

Silber Commissions Project, Promo Work

So some of you might already know about it, but I’ve been talking about doing commissions where I’ll cover any song of your choice for $20 up to & including “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” theme.  I asked around …

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Remora artwork

I spent most of the day working on the artwork for the new Remora.  It’s slower than I anticipated & I’ll still need to lay it out in a program a printer will accept.  But I still hope to get …

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