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The mad king wakes to a day 

he spends it in madness

ends this day in madness

and rests his head

and dreams of madness more.

Got the first Stormcellar/Heavy Rock hybrid test today, courtesy of Ivor.

It's cool as hell. Yeah I know I normally keep it PG-3 but Cool As Heck didnt sound metal enough.

METALLLL!!! And now, it goes back into the grinder of Toughest Anguish and Brutal Darkness of um, err,

METALLLL!!!!!!

Ahem.

I mean it's now back into the development cycle, as we look at... Oh the heck with it.

BACK INTO THE PIT OF DEMONS!! SONG FIGHT! SONNNNG FIIIIIGHT (Work with me here, I am trying to get into the spirit of the thing.)

What Shall Await Us When We Have Performed These Monstrous Things And When Will We Stop Capitalising Sentences Unnescec...Un...Wrongly.

METAL!!!!!!

APOCALYPSE SONG WRITING!!!! 

'Salon' is not very metal. maybe we need a better project name.

Hmm.

banana

I know it's a pandemic and all but I would be very glad if our invited guests would Hurry The ....Up :) I have got the streaming gear up to next testing phase and we're pretty much ready to roll.

Of course this does require the gathering restrictions and a few other things to take their course first. Even though it's 'work' I am not putting 5 guys together in an enclosed space for the time being and the current restrictions of 4m2 per person means imma need a bigger boat.

So Duo's it is! Hurry up you lot, you know who I'm talking 'bout :-)

We're cool for songwriting tho' and yep, yet another batch, this time courtesy of 'Prospect' Fox.

Lookin sharp there bro'

And FINALLY! After almost 4 months of working on 'The Devils Preacher' I found a way through. Whether it will pass Mr Wizards filter is another matter, this one has been percolating since we got back. Whilst I may not have found 'good' I have certainly found lots of 'eek!' and some 'LOL/KEK' and avoided that, so that's a good thing. Maybe. Dunno. 

I'm in Air Traffic Control mode. There are a bunch of songs, I want to see them all guided safely to the right spots. Songwriting sessions will continue through the next few weeks and as they start to take shape I'll use the development time to test the multicam streaming.

Clarksdale Songs

Mixing is in the next phase of development, with some local flavour and Persons of Power summoned to the quest.

Radio Widget

Cos you lot have been listening to the Radio Station we've added we now had to upgrade the version :-) I'm waiting on some guest DJ's to add shows but we have 24/7 Stormcellar Catalogue on Random (no repeats) + 2 Radio shows, the 'Stormcellar Blues Groove' and 'Reverend Jim Beeble's End Times Good Times' in rotation. Go ahead, have a listen :-) We're fully APRA licensed thanks to our good mates at Australian Radio Indy.

Meanwhile in unexpected facebook messages

One of our mates in the US is getting so penned in that they're sending me 'Adult' clips. The minute this pandemic ends I think there's gonna be a baby boom :-)

MOAR TESTING

Friends Of The Band can be on the look out for some testing requests over the next few days. We need to check a few more streaming elements, I'll reach out directly when we test, as it's a little weather dependant on account of it being outside (safer, ventilated).

And in the meanwhile, Dear Reader - stay safe, stay home where you can and send any R rated content to my personal email account :P

Thanks to Bec and Jonesy for testing out the streaming.

I had some ghosts in the machine. The realtek Drivers went haywire when I was using the 24/192 interface from the yamaha desk.

Oh BTW Yamaha, well done. Excellent value and I didnt even know it had USB main mix output. Wow. Cool.

Mr Wizard is keen on decent sound. 

Over the last month I have tested remote playing together (nope), sound setup (ok got it sorted) and today was the first Video session.

We're on schedule for our target of...whenever we get this done :-)

This week, weather permitting, we'll do more live testing.

Friends Of The Band will be called upon to test, as we check further.

This was fiddly today. I made a few errors and had to figure some stuff out. Testing. Love it. I get suspicious when things go too right oo easily :-)

After 3 hours we had sound, vision, vision back from Jonesy and Audio too for complete interactivity and Mr Wizard got a brand new song.

Heh.

Gotta say when it all finally worked it was quite satisfying.

Next!