jamesnotjim.com

You can now listen to James, Not Jim tracks via a Flash-based mp3 player embedded in each music page.

I decided to try out some new software to maintain this site. I’m still teaking the styles a bit, but it’s getting there. One big advantage for you will be the new RSS feeds.

I have a brave new DAW. I switched from SonicFoundry Sony Acid Pro 5 to Ableton Live 5.2. I’ve been thinking about this change for a while, but I finally took the plunge. So now I have new software to learn, but I think it’s only going to help this project, as Acid had been causing a lot of frustration for me.

I’m also going to roll out some sort of CMS for this site. It’s all hand-coded right now. But that’s getting old. It’ll probably be a Drupal-powered site very soon.

I’ll probably keep tweaking on the mix, but it’s good enough to get out the door. You can hear it/download it at my myspace page. Here are some performance/recording notes. I also put together some for “Soundcheck“.
If you’re a bass player, check out my new community site for bassists: bassplaying.com.

[Update (07/02/2008): “Prodigal Son” has its own page in the music section now.]

Still not finished with “Prodigal Son,” though I’m getting close. Finally upgraded to Acid Pro 5.0, which should help with the stability issues. I put together some composition/recording notes for “Ocean,” in case anyone is interested in how that track came together.

I made significant progress last night on “Prodigal Son,” which will be the second official James, Not Jim release. I’m running into a lot of Acid Pro stability problems at the moment which are slowing things down. But my goal is to finish this one before the end of March.

The eagle has landed! I did what I think will be the final mix of “Ocean” tonight. I submitted it to myspace (soon, I’ll make a space here for the mp3s, but it’s fun to have them on myspace as well). It should go live tomorrow. Here’s the link.

[Update (07/02/2008): “Ocean” has its own page in the music section now.]

Still finishing “Ocean” and getting used to my new M-Audio Oxygen8 keyboard controller, which would be useless on my Dell 5160 if it were not for the wonderful asio4all.com drivers.

I’m very close to finishing up the first, official, jamesnotjim track. It’s a song called “Ocean” that has been around, in one form or another, since 2003. But this recording is from scratch and the process of recording it has given me a chance to expand the composition. You’ll see it here very soon.

I set up my studio last night for the first time since the move. I recorded this sound check last night to make sure everything was working and uploaded it to myspace to check out their service (though I’ll be hosting everything here at jamesnotjim.com).

[Update (07/02/2008): “Soundcheck” has its own page in the music section now.]

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