Archives: February2011

• Day 21: Serene starts a fake charity single

  What I hadn’t anticipated was accidentally triggering the automation button and after copying tracks that all had it selected, it was literally as if every one wanted to hog the mike and turn their faders up at the most inopportune time. Brother Ray and Michael M were the worst offenders in this respect and I just went in and deleted a lot of parts but there are still some “celebrity goobers” ruining every mix. I anticipated trouble from Patti Labelle, who went down as the big hog the mc lady for her efforts on this and Live Aid, so I left her caterwauling scream for the very end.

• Day 15: THE SONG PROGRESS THREAT ALERT CHART

  I’ve devised a song progress chart based on the much beloved NATIONAL THREAT ALERT LEVELS (see Figure 1) and its color codes to help me and other home recorders like me from getting stuck and running out of time.

• Day 10: How much time do you spend on a song?

  If anything broke up the Beatles, it’s the amount of days and nights Paul forced the others to play “Obla-Di Obla-Da” over and over. So far the song that force me to break me up is “Yellow Shampoo.” I’ve done a little tinkering with it every night this week and it’s not finished.

• Diary of an Album Blog: 28 Songs in 24 Days!

  For the second year in a row, Serene Dominic has taken on the RPM Challenge and recording an album from start to finish in the month of February. Follow the day-to-day progress with his daily slog, I mean blog and up-to-the-minute demos and mixes on the Serene Dominic Jukebox.