Circumstances - 2007/01/31 08:57Hi all, Brand new cannon fodder here - can't wait to get started on the challenge.
I'd be interested to know the range of circumstances under which RPM'ers are doing the challenge. As for myself, I have a full-time job that often forces me to work fairly late, and a girlfriend that I live with, and thus must lavish attention on when I get home The only time I can get down to some serious recording is if I stay up after 10pm once my girl has gone to bed, and then work like a madman for the next 3-4 hours. What about you?
Good luck to you all on the challenge, by the way
Nick P
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Floppy Jalopy
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 10:06Full time job, married with two kids, Can't do anything until 8PM at the earliest after the kids go to sleep. Last year I did everything from 8-Midnight almost every night. I'll probably do the same this year
great idea for a topic
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 11:08Ha! A mere two replies in, and already we have polar opposites. Kudos to you both for taking it on
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 11:14Full time job, married, puppy at home. I can't imagine trying to do something like this with kids at home, I'd be a zombie. It's bad enough that my puppy wakes me up once a night to go out. Hell maybe it would be easier with kids. Trade?
I think I'll mostly be doing this on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Farrell will be working on the beds when he can during the week. Hopefully the snow will let up a bit so I can make it across town to record. And hopefully he got the equipment figured out so that we can record. Otherwise it will be Tascam cassette that we'll have to figure out how to get onto the computer. We didn't have a ton of luck last time we tried.
Wow, I can ramble, can't I.
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 11:25Full-time job that often requires me to stay late...
Just got cast in a staged reading that starts rehearsals on Feb. 1...
Live in an apartment building that I can't get too loud in after 8:30 or 9...
So I might be doing some quiet stuff...but I don't want to limit myself I hope to use this as a time to experiment with techniques/sounds I've never worked with...
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got all the time in the world unless I find a job....which ain't good for the king of impatient procrastinaters (how's that for a paradox?)
However, I will only be able to get studio time now and again...so the album will be recorded swiftly and simply in a few days...
I hope...
I've got it way to easy...it'd better be a good album, hey?
Good luck all!
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 12:30I work full-time, however I do get every other friday off (like this coming one). Married to a (currently sick) wife and we have a (currently sick) four month old boy, our first child (they both have colds). Also in a band that practices at least once a week at night. I'll be able to work on this mostly late at night and hit it very hard on weekends.
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 12:30Reconsider wrote: Full-time job that often requires me to stay late...
Just got cast in a staged reading that starts rehearsals on Feb. 1...
Live in an apartment building that I can't get too loud in after 8:30 or 9...
So I might be doing some quiet stuff...but I don't want to limit myself I hope to use this as a time to experiment with techniques/sounds I've never worked with...
Whoah, a reading to do as well? Fair play for doing the challenge on top of that!
That reminds me, I live in an apartment block too, with neighbours that wake at the sound of an ant coughing at 300 metres. Oh, and my flat is on the ground floor, next to a main road. Ideal recording conditions
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 12:44One full time job, down from 2 -- the night job is shut dow for February into the middle of March (how convenient is that?), so I have free time & no reason not to do this. I have a Mac, so I can multitrack at home. I have a bunch of GB recordings up at macidol.com, so I know this is doable, for me.
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 12:49Well, I have a typical monday-friday 9-5er job. If inspiration strikes me, they are pretty good about letting me take a day off in the middle of the week and working a Saturday instead. That can make a world of difference!
The other "member" is my fiance who just finished up her art degree and is planning on moving down here (southern California) very soon. We don't get much time to record together but every so often she will amuse me by lending her choir-trained voice to my little numbers.
I can record whenever I want as long as I am not at work, but recording tambourine and cowbell in my apartment at 10 at night is a no no. I leave the night time to mix and record electronic instruments.
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 12:56I work a full time job, am engaged, commute 90 minutes or so to work and live at home w/ my parents until my nuptials in September. So, i plan on spending all day on Fridays recording (i work Sun-Thurs), Sat. Morning post-breakfast, and a few nights a week. I also plan on taking a personal day or two later in the month to finish up.
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 12:57Full time Job that is in transition, so anything is possible...including a road trip. I for sure won't be able to record if that happens. I've never written a song in a motel room, but I understand it has been done before. If I can put up with headboards thumping in the next room, they should be able to put up with me strumming earnestly.
Married, but living in different hemispheres presently, so that's no issue. At home I'll have maybe 6 hours a day to intensely work. No band on this, so no conflicting schedules/life goals. If I can get them written, I can get them recorded. I've some experience with both.
Aside from the variables of life and death (my own or god forbid a loved one) the month is just another one. Confidence is high. Karma will rule.
Good luck to you too, Nick.
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 12:58one job, the occasional second (weekends...of course!), a girlfriend who just so happens to be a partner in crime on this project ( thank goodness for that! ), a dell desktop that may not be ready for what i'm going to put it through (256 ram 1gig of speed but, i've done some tests so... yeah.), a house full of family ( that's normal), an occasional gigging band and the occasional bouts of hunger, waste disposal, sleep, inebriation and lust ( thinking about putting that one to side.). i am so freaking ready!
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well a day job from 7 till 3:15pm, then teaching at a community music school, till around seven, almost every day, if I don't have gigs or something else... I'll be working on this every day of this month
sorry ladies..
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 13:36I'm "fortunate" in being unemployed, at the moment. Fortunate for this project, but not for my finances. (O.o) Still, our house is on a busy road, and my studio is in the front of the house. There is so much traffic noise, that I can only record vocals and acoustic stuff at night, unless I want a cacophony of HONKthumpathumpathumpaSCREECHvroooom in the background of all my songs. If I decide to use the electric guitars instead, I don't have to worry about those tracks, at least, since their sound will go straight into the computer. It would just be the vocals that I had to do at night...after the roomie is asleep and not blasting the tv or radio. Still, I should have plenty of time to do it (he says, hoping those are not fatal last words). I'm more worried about keeping my old, failing equipment working than I am worried about running out of time.
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 13:41Full time job that's pretty flexible. I'm actually taking time out from working on an album (I've been working on it for 4 years now). I practice with a couple of cover bands on weekends (one plays GBV covers, the other classic rock), so I might try to get some recording time in during breaks. My friend and her infant daughter lives with me so I plan on coming into work 2 hrs early during the week to do the lion's share of this recording.
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 13:44i just quit my borderline full time job, i'm taking a couple classes this semester, and my next job won't start until march 1st or 2nd, depending on whether i hand deliver the album.
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 15:15stay-at-home-dad-musician/recordist-by-night with twin three year old girls, a one year old boy, a four day trip to green bay mid month.
also, my hands, feet and fingers don't work anymore. or my face. and i don't know how to sing or play anything. and i'm currently on fire.
top that!
i crack me up. J-No
ps - heh.
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 15:47Jon Nolan wrote: ...my hands, feet and fingers don't work anymore. or my face. and i don't know how to sing or play anything. and i'm currently on fire.
top that!
Now THAT'S entertainment!
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 16:04i am a sole eye in a jar electronically kept alive by the heart of 4 day old lemur. my wife... who is also blind handless and pretty much a torso, types my messages with her extended navel ( she is really quite talented. perhaps you two would like to meet?) and together we will producing this entire on a midi toaster ( my own invention.) and what we like to call " lung guitar".
by the way, the picture you see of me is actually my clone in butter created from pictures from before the first midi toaster accident . i... am a sham.
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 16:22hmmm.... I have a job that gives me free time.Girls hate me, I live all alone in the woods and stay up real late. So ya I got lots of free time. Lucky me !!!..... I think?
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 16:48Full time job, but I work in a school...Hoping for a few snow days, and then February vacation. My wife is pregnant, so she is in bed early. She wants this challenge to start so I will stop talking about it, and get to work. Very excited!!!! Have fun everybody!!!
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 16:59All I have to say is: Thank god for kung fu bicycles.
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 17:05I have a full time, 9-5ish job and I also live in an apartment which won't be good if I feel like recording something late night.
I don't think I would normally have a problem finishing this in time but I will be out of the country on business for 8 days in the middle of Feb. and may have to take another 4 day trip a week later, meaning effectively a may only have 14 days to record.
Which means I'll basically have to cut into my much protected/beloved 8 hrs of sleep per night.
I may get cranky. This album might start out sunny-pop and by the end of February become death-metal.
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 17:38I work full time at a very high stress job (maybe I will use this as an excuse to quit!) - I have 2 kids half time - I will be traveling for 8 days to Southern CA from east coast - so that means most of the writing MUST be done before the 19th. (Did you hear that Peter?) Life is just exploding all around me - all the time - which keeps me in constant motion.
Last year it was a similar story - but I did the project alone - so the pressure is off as far as figuring out how I am gonna pull it all off single handed. I will be tapping friends in trouble, strangers in line w/ small screamimg kids and any small nocturnal creatures that spring forth while I am in dream states for inspiration and ideas.
This is gonna be fun!
-jodie
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Re:Circumstances - 2007/01/31 18:01Do they actually have apartment blocks in antarctica?
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The only time I can get down to some serious recording is if I stay up after 10pm once my girl has gone to bed, and then work like a madman for the next 3-4 hours. What about you?
