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XTT CD Album Unboxing
Thursday, March 25th, 2010I received the on-demand production CD from the XTT merch shop and for the most part I am satisfied but the CD art itself is missing elements and there is text cut off in the song titles and the there is text off centered on the back cover. I plan on addressing it with the company but I am still excited to have it, anyway, check it out, I dig it and I plan on tweaking the art work layout.
XTT Album Artwork
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010Reverb Nation has a cool new store feature and I took advantage of it, I made some t-shirts, a hoody and a hat and an album, although you can download any of my tunes for free and rip your own CD, I just figured it would be proper to create an album for promo purposes. anyway if you want to support the music and purchase any of my products just go to my merch shop and check it out.
Anyway, below is the current artwork for the album but I plan on tweaking it and adding a couple more songs, enjoy!
Front Cover/Panel:
Inside Panels:
Back Cover / Sides:
Back Cover (inside under the CD):
CD Artwork:
XTT on iCompositions and BandMix
Saturday, December 26th, 2009XTT has just added 2 more hosting sites to the list, I was perusing the apple message boards and asked if there was a place to showcase my tunes there and someone recommended iCompositions.com and it is actually pretty cool and geared towards mac users, I already got a couple of good reviews too.
While I was perusing iCompositions.com there was a banner ad for another cool site called BandMix.com which is also for indy artists which I also thought is pretty cool. I been looking for some cool indy artist communities and I am glad I found them, I am going to keep looking too.
Below is a screen shot of my new page at iCompositions (click pic to see full size):
Bleow is a screen shot of the BandMix page:
Below are the three cool reviews for the Song “Black and Blue” from iCompositions:
News from the Lab
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Just an update that I completed making 9 ruff draft instrumentals and one song with vocals that will be re-recorded and I am pretty happy with 7 of the 9 songs where there will be minor changes and add-ons to most and the 2 songs I am unhappy with I plan on making bigger changes hopefully for the better.
So far it took about a month to write the songs but if I added up the time I took I would say 24 hours, if that, for programming the drum machine and actually laying down the tracks. The vocals for “Warning” took a couple of hours because I was winging it with the software I am still learning and so was rick just learning the song.
The reviews on garageband.com (please do not confuse with garage band software from apple) have been pretty good other than the recording quality comments which there should be significant changes as far as recording quality and I have some tricks up my sleeve since I am learning more with each song I record.
Any way thats my blog spurt for today…..peace!
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
