what is going on in your musical life

coming up with band names is the worst, we settled this by online poll with the 4 members, ranked choice balloting lol

I feel like it's maybe a decent name but at least not actively bad where it could hold you back

Omg — please don’t make me talk about the band name spreadsheet. We have a spreadsheet and we still can’t agree on something. I’d share my side of the story but it’s too long — the lack of decisiveness is making me lose faith :(

Nice UMS! That sounds great can’t wait to hear the whole thing

Its so hard to find a name that isn't taken these days unless it's something like Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her (which IIRC is taken).

I think if you can get just the name as an IG handle you're on the right track.

it really is the hardest thing, I do recommend setting up the poll thing where everyone picks their three favorites in order, it forces a decision

actually ivy, Faith/Void is such a great name I'm jealous

the path to a great band name is to steal it from a friend who is never going to form a band (his original idea was “faith void split” and i’m glad we ditched the “split”)

Yeah it’s a great band name

All I’m doing these days is “new set, new songs”. Was distracted for three weeks in rebuilding my rig to make it multi-channel. It was a productive dead end. Solved the problem and realized I didn’t like the results as much. Tore it up and went back to stereo

Interesting! I'm in the final stages of obsessive mixing for this drums-only record I'm working on (a collaboration with my main early drum teacher, which is a really nice thing). Getting to like "v14" for some tracks. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel though, just tweaking a few more tracks. I had a big breakthrough the other day when I remembered the existence of parallel compression/processing (exported five tracks of drum kit that I had processed to death down to one, brought it back in, took most of the processing off the original tracks, and blended the two).

Meanwhile I did this session, it was basically a sight-reading/first rehearsal/recording session deal. It had been a long time since I've been in an "everyone recording live" situation. I wish I had been able to play a little more freely, but after a couple takes you don't want to be the one who fucks it up when it's going ok. I only made one mistake that will haunt me the rest of my days on this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFC3kAXjKg

I only made one mistake that will haunt me the rest of my days on this one

real!!!! you sound fantastic tho

meanwhile i'm going through a very intense unwound phase so i've decided to learn a bunch of unwound songs on drums. discovering that my drumming goal specifically in my band is "play more like sara lund"

great goal ivy. i did not realize that i followed one of your bandmates on letterboxd (and previously on twitter/bluesky when i was on there)

sounds hot jordan

Hornado!!

Great drumming jordan

Thanks guys <3

The other tune on that session was an intricate arrangement of the Zelda dungeon theme, curious/apprehensive to hear how that came out

i really want to hear that!!!!

album has been distributed to stores/streaming services. first single out 5/1. so nervous i feel like my body's gonna turn inside out and also so happy omg

Congrats!

Congratulations!

Zelda, lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCM-YRSZFlw

I keep thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_/_Void_Split

i have a solo show coming up, that's good. Looking forward to it etc.

at the same time, the band i was invited to join may 2021 and has taken up three years of my time/effort/money/creativity and has never formally recorded or played a show just dumped me via text. the pretense was that our schedules were incompatible and they couldn't make the progress they wanted to make (????) with my schedule. i just -- i am pissed they wasted my time, money, effort, and creativity. if i weasn't good enough you could have told me years ago, and if i was -- is this seriously how it ends?

WHATEVER i have other fish to fry

nooooo i'm so sorry ll. what dicks!

i only wish i had left of my own accord -- the truth is that my life has been pure chaos since i met them (employment tumult, abundant family issues including death of a parent, a pandemic, etc -- little of which I told them details about and rarely did it interfere with our rehearsals) and it was going nowhere. but i figured it would be better for me to continue playing regularly and i enjoyed it most of the time.

i just cannot believe i was blindsided like this. it's shocking. UGGGHHHHHH

Also thank you for responding and your accurate assessment of their behavior.

it’s a day of bad news bc i stubbed my toe on my drumkit right after practice and i think i broke it???

Booooo
Foot probs are the worst

but before i forget or pass out tonight, here's the new faith/void single, which will hopefully be on streaming services tomorrow, idk i find music distribution very confusing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkLZvBRNfyE

Video is private, but excited to listen. I heard “End Of The World” (R.E.M. original) in a public place and thought “I would prefer the Faith/Void version thanks”

it is *not* on streaming bc i’m an idiot. the youtube embed should work now tho

Sounds great ivy

wow that sounds great ivy! excellent chorus, the whole thing is very hooky but slightly off kilter in a great way

LL - that sucks so much, I'm really sorry to hear about that, is that the same band that didn't have a name? sounds like they needed someone to blame for their own inaction. bands are such a hotbed of passive aggressive communication

Yes! I’m not a pass agg person or communicator and I’m still in shock tbh. I can’t believe I spent 3 years playing w these people who have so little respect for me.

https://faithvoid.bandcamp.com/album/weird-chills

Congrats again ivy, I didn't know you were the Neil Peart of the band (drummer/lyricist). And sorry LL, that's really annoying, good riddance. More and more I'm amazed that any band with more than two people is actually functional.

lol no shit, i had a meltdown in the studio once where the guitarist and drummer clearly weren't digging our singer anymore and kept trying to "jason newstead" her my mixing down the vocals in the studio

by mixing

I finished mixing my drum duo album and had sort of internally decided against trying to pull anything off live. Buuut there just might be a chance that we could do it at an artsy festival in Europe next year, which is something I've always dreamed about.

So now I'm furiously googling gear and trying to think of how we might pull it off, without spending much money. Probably a topic for another thread but the one thing I want to avoid is playing drums to a backing track or loop with a strict tempo -- it's always too hard to get the monitoring and balance right, especially for multiple people, and it kinda sucks anyway. So instead I want to be able to do some live dubbing of the other drummer (like one mic going into my mixer & fx unit), and a way to trigger samples, preferably via drum pad (pads, one-shots, and some loops that I can re-trigger every few bars). Hopefully without spending $$$ on the industry standard Roland pad that everyone uses. I'm really kicking myself for selling my SP404, that could have worked fine, but looking into the tablet sampler app + midi controller pad option (even though I love a simple self-contained tactile piece of gear that doesn't involve a computer or smart device). Blah blah blah.

omg i hope you get to realize that dream jordan!!!

lmao @ being called "the neil peart of the band"

faith/void song is sick. jordan that sounds way too complicated for my brain but i hope you can figure it out.

my band/recording project is still slowly chugging away at recording. we've gotten into a semiroutine of getting together every couple of months to record the drums and bass for four songs, then later i go to a rehearsal space to record guitars, then finally we add vocals and other stuff at home. for the first time we're aiming at recording more songs than we need (the target is 16) and then cutting down to a cohesive 10-12 track album, and maybe saving some of the others for an EP down the road.

it's going pretty well but the mixing is getting to me, i don't have great ears and am not confident/experienced with doing that stuff on the computer. part of the point of doing this as a recording project (other than that we don't have the time or energy to play live any more) is that we can make each song sound however we like with multiple guitar parts or keyboards or extra backup vocals and not have to worry about replicating it live. but yesterday i was listening to an album our old band made where it was songs we had played out a bunch of times and it was recorded mostly live to 8-track with just vocals and some lead guitar overdubbed, and it sounds so good. i miss being able to record things like that. plus tape (even cassette tape) sounds so much better than digital, maybe it's because i'm old but also it's true.

I had my last home project mixed by my friend who is a personal and it was so worth it

but yeah I miss analog recording, there's something about it

Maybe a lot of it is natural compression that's occuring? I definitely think you need to work extra hard to get the vibe going with digital recording & mixing, although luckily there are so many amazing analog-style plugins today available for free or nearly free. The thing I like about digital is that there can be so many creative workarounds, I've done things that felt like cheating (like creating multiple copies of a track that are processed and EQ'd differently) and only learned later that it's considered a standard technique. I love mixing now as a set of puzzles to solve, but it still takes soooo much time, so much listening on multiple systems and tweaking and listening and tweaking.

Love the Faith/Void track Ivy - love the drum breakdown around 2.30.
I hear some Quicksand in there!

omg chinaski thank you, hearing any quicksand at all in our music is huge for us

and thanks everyone here for saying such nice things about it <3

I just put out a new single for Bandcamp Friday.

https://chrisirregardless.bandcamp.com/album/daisy-clocks-and-time

going on tour???? if you're in any of these places, come say hi.

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Awesome flyer.

that's so rad

Those Omni magazine covers are fantastic - great flyer

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