Viewing: Music Production - View all posts

**NEW RELEASE** - Blood Vendetta, Audiobook - Spotify Pre-Save Link

If you listen to your audiobooks on Spotify...make sure to bookmark THIS one!     8+ hours of gun-slinging, mezcal-drinking, dead-skin-mask-wearing, iron-horse riding, blood-stained-old-west-new-west-end-of-days rootin' and/or tootin'--plus all the rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits…

Audio Submitted--and QC PASSED!

We've elected to use FindAwayVoices to distribute the audio book. This gets into all major retailers--and Audible, but only once there's a live URL for the e-book version. So that'll take a little while longer. But fortunately--big news, here--although we…

Read more

Guitar Tracks DELIVERED

That was a marathon. In fifteen days, I recorded 199 guitar tracks. Then…we found at least three chapters were missing music. So in the last possible minutes before I left, I recorded more tracks. So there are at least 210…

Read more
placeholder

Final WAVs Delivered!

That's it! All the final WAV files were delivered today. All the edits have been done. All the chapters have had renamed and re-ordered properly (new chapters were introduced in the recording process--ergo, new chapters headings and numbers had to…

Read more

Audiobook Revisions

Now we come down to it. Lots and lots of revisions. Not errors on my part (well, a couple--mispronouncing a couple of proper names). Just changes to the final product. This will take a while, but I think we'll have…

Read more
placeholder

Final Chapters Delivered

Man…it's been a long process. I don't get sick that often, but when I do, I get knocked out for a while. And sometimes, it's not even that bad. But when your project is ENTIRELY reliant on your voice--and your…

Read more

Session update - TOO HOT!

Gah…another heat wave! What that means is that my studio--which is incredibly well-insulated--is almost completely unsuitable for human life. ‘Sweltering’ is a kind word for what it feels like in there. So I get about 30 minutes at a time…

Read more
placeholder

Voice Sampler

Few more issues. Mostly communications-oriented. There were a few voices/accents that were not in line with what the author wanted. Which is totally fine! We're trying to make the best product here.

So I created a voice sampler, which included…

Read more

Blood Vendetta update - First sessions finished

Well…it took a while to settle in to record this. Several manuscript revisions have gone by. Studio issues. Heat waves. Etc, etc.

But we're finally here! First couple of recording sessions are in the books. Part of the delay, too…

Read more

Music Editor for the Big Sur Fashion Show

I was thrilled to be a part of the 2018 Big Sur Fashion Show this year, even though I couldn't physically be there in person (which killed me!--since my wife, the fabulous Beverly Van Pelt, is this year's Creative…

Read more