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Photo of the band for Marky Ramone's 2024 Holiday Blitzkrieg in front of a rehearsal stage. From left to right: Tommy Victor, Marky Ramone, Craig Setari, Pela SCB.
2024 Holiday Blitzkrieg lineup. Photo credit: @markyramoneofficial on Instagram.

Our Japan trip concluded with my longest Thursday ever, about 32 hours. While there were a couple naps involved, I managed to stay up for Marky Ramone’s Holiday Blitzkrieg at the Gramercy Theatre, and a night cap. If it wasn’t for the show, I would have crashed by 5:30 PM.

The Marky Ramone show was a blast. They played pretty much non-stop for over an hour and a half. That’s a lot of songs when most of them are in the sub two minute range. It was great to see a lot of mature fans in the audience. By that, I mean (well) over forty, which includes me. Keep on rocking folks. And, thanks to Kenny for the ticket!

Now I’m preparing myself for what awaits at work after three weeks out of the office. Should be fun!

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We recorded our jam again this week since last week’s didn’t take advantage of the our multi-client Jamulus setup to separate our vocal and instrument tracks. I think it sounds better, although, one might be hard pressed to tell the difference unless they are doing the mixing.

Speaking of mixing, I think I need some guidance. This week, I bumped up the bass per request (hopefully not too much), but I’m at a loss on what to do with the vocals. I’m going to ship one of the songs off to a friend with a degree in audio engineering and a ton of experience. After he finishes laughing at my attempts to mix this, perhaps he can give some direction.

Unfortunately, there is more noise in this week’s recording. I think it’s coming from network delays. I’d like to verify that this is the case to understand if there is anything we can do to minimize it.

Here’s a taste of the session. I only flubbed a couple times.

Look Sharp! (Joe Jackson cover) recorded from a Jamulus session on 22 Nov, 2024.

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We recorded the Friday jam this week, very exciting. In comparing a couple of the songs from the last recording, I did notice some improvement. Not bad for a bunch of guys that don’t practice enough. Here’s a select track from that session.

Rock n Roll Ruby (Warren Smith cover) recorded from a Jamulus session on 15 Nov, 2024.

In spite of our effort to separate the instrument and vocal tracks by running multiple Jamulus clients, we ended up with vocals on one of the guitar tracks. Unfortunately, I didn’t notice until working on the mix. It was just a setting in Jamulus we’d missed. Lesson learned: Take a minute at the beginning of the session to ensure you’re recording what you think you are.

Overall, I’m pretty happy with the recording. There are a spots with garbling and noise from somewhere in the network, which is to be expected. There isn’t much audio engineering here aside the volume levels and some panning. There is some compression and reverb added the vocals. And, I tried to highlight the guitar solos. Early reviews are that there wasn’t enough bass in the mix. I didn’t want it to sound like the bass guy mixed it, perhaps I overcompensated.

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I’ve been thinking about changing the tech underpinning this site more and more lately. I’ve wanted a static site for a while, but the continuing uncertainty around WordPress might be what pushes me over the edge. I’m just not sure which direction to go. I’ve been hearing a lot about Eleventy lately, but that might be more effort than I’m willing to expend right now. Perhaps, I’ll try one of the static site plugins first as that might have the lowest time commitment.

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