December 2023 Patreon & News Post: 2 solid Better Than The Book mixes are complete (12 to go), more guitar/gear videos including homemade effects, doubleneck explorations and a live Third Eye Blind cover + more!

Hi eveyone and hope you've had a great November! Another month begins and so it's time for some more Patreon rewards and news updates! 

It's been a heavy few weeks of mixing (and preparing to mix) the upcoming Better Than The Book album project! As of now, 2 mixes are solid and ready for final checks before mastering (once the other tracks are done), and the remaining 12 tracks have all been set up ready with the new session templates and presets to make the mixing process much smoother when I get to them, as well as some general ballpark mixing so I'm not starting from square one for each song, and preparing my mixing sheets with all the notes I'll need too for each track. Progress is going well, and now that the first few mixes are done, I think the pace will be picking up in the New Year as I find my flow again! It's looking to be busy month ahead with various visits and Christmas / New Year festivities, so I'll be taking things at a relaxed pace and doing what I can until the time allows, but I'm super excited to share with you what's going on and can't wait to release this album in 2024!

Next and finally for this month's news, it's onto the gear and guitar videos for the month and it's another 2-a-week packed playlist for you. This time I have another BTTB playalong, some doubleneck explorations and synth accompanied guitars jams, demonstrations of a few of my homemade effects pedals, and a full live cover of Third Eye Blind's Narcolepsy and more too Here's the usual playlist link with the added videos:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWEmqIhrNPvQTBoOjZdKLgL4ecTvLz6sm

And here's a list of the latest additions:

• Better Than The Book - Hopes and Dreams 12-String Guitar Solo Playthrough
• Trying to tame the Doubleneck Guitar (uncut exploration / practice)
• Having fun noodling on a Yamaha Pacifica guitar and Roland Aria J-6 Synth
• Right hand only guitar practice on Yamaha Pacifica and Roland Aira J-6 Synth
• I made an "Oldschool Overdrive" guitar pedal! DEMO with Vintage Modified Jaguar
• I made a Univox Super-Fuzz clone guitar pedal! DEMO with Vintage Modified Jaguar
• Homemade Univox Super-Fuzz clone guitar pedal on Bass! DEMO with Sterling SB14
• Muse - Time Is Running Out - Bass Cover with Homemade Super-Fuzz pedal clone!
• Third Eye Blind - Narcolepsy (guitar and vocal cover)

Hope you enjoy them and there's more to come every Thursday and Sunday in December!

That about wraps it up for this month, unless you're a $10 patron in which case you have the first of the solid BTTB mixes to look forward to in your rewards (the final WIP look at "Hold Me Tight (Non-Acoustic)"! It's looking to be a busy month ahead, mostly away from the studio with various celebrations and festivities so I'm hoping to complete at least one more mix + record the next month's worth of videos, but I'm not sure there'll be much time for anything else. We shall have to see! The next blog post will likely be a few days late due to the New Years celebrations, but I'll be back in January with more guitar videos and BTTB album updates at the very least! Until then, I hope you have a great December to come, enjoy any seasonal festivity fun you have planned, and thanks so much for all your support in 2023! See you in 2024, It's gonna be a big year!

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January 2024 Patreon & News Post: Another BTTB mix done, more guitar/gear videos including a sneak peek live performance of Better Than The Book's "Plot Holes", project and studio updates + reflecting on 2023 and setting goals for 2024!

Happy New Year everyone and hope you all had a great winter break! A new month comes with a new year and so it's time for an extra special first of the year update!

It's been a very busy month mostly away from the studio with various holiday festivities, but there's been some progress in the studio as well! One top of another solid BTTB mix which makes for a total of 3 so far (and 11 to go), I also got a request to do some programming for the Korg NTS-1 Digital synth which was a fun challenge! I'll hopefully be releasing that as a free/donation based public download in the coming months so I hope people can get something out of it. In the mean time, feel free to check out my previous NTS-1 programming project: NOISE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3mLR4aC5o

Of course I've also been keeping up with my 2 a week guitar/gear videos on YouTube and this time we have a Better Than The Book organ playalong video, some more organ experiments, some MPC fingerdrumming, unconventional guitar bends and more, AND a rough and ready live sneak peek demo of one of the upcoming Better Than The Book tracks: "Plot Holes"! Here's the usual playlist link with the added videos:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWEmqIhrNPvQTBoOjZdKLgL4ecTvLz6sm

And here's a list of the latest additions:

• Better Than The Book - Brighton - Organ Part
• Yamaha YC-25D Touch Mute Organ Demo
• Tremolo + Echo Organ Jam
• DD-6 Looping Fun
• Basic Behind The Bridge B-bending on Jaguar
• Tapped Harmonics and Behind The Nut Bending
• Pop Punk MPC Fingerdrumming
• Pipe Organ vibes with reverb on the YC-25D
• Better Than The Book - Plot Holes - Sneak Peek Live Demo

That's about it for studio updates, but it was a fun time with winter festivities too! This was actually my first Christmas with family since 2019 (due to pandemic + work night shifts) and my first married Christmas with Eva (and her sister) too and it was amazing. As seems to have become tradition, my twin Eamon got me another synth for the studio, the ultra compact Bastl Kastle v1.5 which I'm super looking forward to intergrating into my synth set-up. It's a fun and ready less-melodically-focussed experimental synth of sorts which excels at creating some great textures and soundscapes! Hopefully you'll be hearing some of that from me very soon!

To close this post I thought it'd be nice to reflect on the year gone by, celebrate the sucesses, reflect on goals, and set some new ones for 2024! This past year has been a busy one not only with work but with my personal life too! After a crazy start with my laptop of 14+ years having to be retired and moving projects over to a new system, Jabun released the June22 EP, a collection of 2 live performances inspired by the modular synth works of Suzanne Ciani. I also finally managed to get those BP-1 bass pedals for the organ rig (after 2 years of constant searching), and modified my Jaguar guitar for some lovely new fuctionality. I released Reduce with @Cyberdevil, @ChordC and @Hania which was a dream come true collaboration, modified my homemade Superfuzz and got a pedalboard and BOSS TR-2 Tremolo pedal (from Japan) for my birthday (+ another footswitch), and started a new twice a week guitar/gear YouTube series! I took part in my first ever LIVE podcast interview with the @OffTheWallShow Podcast here on Newgrounds, Finished recording (and got deep into mixing) Better Than The Book's upcoming 3rd full-length album, got MARRIED, and released multiple collaborations with Cyberdevil as part of his yearly INKtober challenge, most notably Pool Party! Phew! That was way more than I remember doing!

In terms of the goals I actually set, the only thing which didn't come to pass (mainly due to logistical and health problems) was taking BTTB to the stage, but there's still time for that! With that I think I'll be setting the following goals for 2024:

1) Release the upcoming Better Than The Book album!

2) Finish recording the next Jabun album

3) Play my first live show as Better Than The Book

4) Play my first live show as Jabun

The logistics have finally lined up (at least closer) again for that 3rd goal, and there's been some actually asked interest about the 4th one, so I just need to figure out how to do it! I've also got some long overdue equipement maintanence to do so hopefully that should go smoothly as well! It's looking to be a super exciting year to come!

That about wraps things up for this month unless you're a $10 patron in which case you have a solid mix for Red Kite from the upcoming Better Than The Book album to look forward to in your rewards! I hope you all have a great 2024 to come and thanks so much as always for supporting my music and projects however you can. Lets make 2024 the best year yet! All the best and take care!

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February 2024 Patreon & News Post: Halfway there mixing Better Than The Book's upcoming album (+ an exclusive demo mix of "Plot Holes"), BTTB live practice updates, JabunAudio's NOISE gets featured on KORG's offical software list + 8 more YouTube Videos!

Hi everyone and hope you've had a great start to the year! It's the beginning of another month and time for some more news and rewards and what a busy month it's been! 

The updates for this month: with 7 out of 14 tracks from the upcoming Better Than The Book album now mixed, we're halfway there (whooaa, livin' on a prayer)! I'll be aiming to get another 4 done over the next month, but I've left the more complex/unusual mixes until last so things are getting a bit tricky and taking longer than before... Slowly but surely though!

Meanwhile I've been super busy practicing for March for hopefully the first full-band BTTB practice since January 2020 (TBC)!!! It was a tough month getting my vocals back in gear for the longer-than-I'm-used-to sets, but things are feeling pretty good now, and with 10 tracks (a pick'n'mix of old and new) now pretty solid under my fingers, bar the occasional vocal or guitar slip, its now more about practicing creating the performance with these tracks! I cannot tell you how excited I am to get back to playing live and I'll keep you posted with news as and when! and feel free to check out the last time(s) we met up in the playlist below: Woot woot!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWEmqIhrNPvTUl5SAbcIGB2nISnvWjGtq

Onto other exciting news, it took over 2 years to come to fruition but JabunAudio's custom NOISE Oscillator for the KORG NTS-1 Digital Synth Kit is now on Korg's OFFICIAL logue-SDK unit index list (with JabunAudio actually listed now as a software developer for the platform)! Thanks so much for the stamp of approval KORG and hope people have fun with it! With the new NTS-1 mkII announced with its own new noise oscillator, JabunAudio's own NOISE gives users of the original NTS-1 a more basic version to play with while they wait to upgrade. It's free/donation based too so if you have an NTS-1 go grab it and have fun!

KORG's official list: https://korginc.github.io/logue-sdk/unit-index/osc/

See + Hear it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3mLR4aC5o

And finally for this post, as usual I've been keeping up with the 2 videos a week on YouTube, and this month we have a demo of my homemade spring reverb with organ, some (mostly metal) alternative tuning experiments for guitar, and some experimental Col Legno inspired guitar techniques I borrowed from cello! Here's the usual playlist link with the added videos:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWEmqIhrNPvQTBoOjZdKLgL4ecTvLz6sm

And here's a list of the latest additions: Enjoy!

• Homemade Reverb + Organ (Walkin' on the Sun)
• AGCFAD tuning because I don't have a 7-string (Metal)
• AGCFAD tuning on 12-string (Metal)
• CGDGAD tuing on 12-string sounds beautiful!
• 12-string guitar but it's in 5ths instead of Octaves/unison
• Col Legno on guitar with drumstick (Rock)
• Col Legno on guitar with drumstick (Atmospheric)
• Col Legno (+ Gliss) on Guitar with RIGHT hand glass slide

The next month and a half of videos will be much less guitar heavy as it was super cold when I was recording, but guitaring will return in March! Meanwhile there's some other exciting things to share instead! Hope you enjoy it!

And that about wraps things up for this month unless you're a $10 Patreon supporter in which case you have the latest (and almost final) mix of Better Than The Book's "Plot Holes" to look forward to from the upcoming album! Next month is set to be more BTTB mixing and live (solo) practicing ready for March and hopefully the first batch of some much needed equipment maintainence (on top of the usual YouTube stuff)? We shall see how things go but until then, I hope you're as excited as I am for what's to come and thanks as always for supporting my music and projects however you can! Until the next one, and take care!

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Finally catching up with these updates... you've managed a LOT of videos the last few months! Impressively consistent upload schedule and content creation scheme, seems like it might be paying off too...

Aw yeah, thanks for the multiple shout-out's here!

That was a fun one too, feels like further back than it was at this point...

Happy Super Belated New Year also!

I remember this one! :D Can't wait to see some new practice sessions floating around the interwebs soon!

Hell yes! So far seems like it's off to a grand start - all the best!

Cheers CD! It's been a while! That reduce collab in particular feels like ages ago now. Very much hoping that BTTB practice session stuff goes ahead and smoothly but things are looking a bit rocky due to stuff out of my control at the moment unfortunatley... hopefully only delays but still hoping for something to happen in March at least DX I'll keep peeps posted! Thanks for checking in :)

Thanks man. :) Indeed it has! Ah whatever turmoil there is at the mo I hope it works out then... new month's closing in now, intrigued to read the next post and see how it all goes!

Of course, shall be here a bit more frequently again from here on I hope!

March 2024 Patreon & News Post: More Better Than The Book album and live updates, back on the radio + 9 more YouTube Videos including a teaser from the new album + more!

Hi everyone and hope you had a great leap day yesterday! It's March (man oh man this year is going by fast...) and time for another update!

In the news for this month, 3 more Better Than The Book mixes were completed (aaaaaalmost 4) which puts mixing at about 75% done now apart from final checks and tweaks! These final mixes are getting trickier as they branch out into more complex styles, but it's been a fun ride putting them together! 4 left to go so I'm hoping they'll all be at that final checking and tweaking stage by the next update, but we'll see how it goes!

Carrying on with some more BTTB news, it's been another busy month training and practicing for gigging and after a period of uncertainy, I can confirm that Better Than The Book's first full band practice since January 2020 will be happening on March 9th! The studio is booked and I cannot express how excited I am for it! We've prepped 10 tracks (a mix of new and old) to run through and see how we do and hopefully (depending on the results) it'll be the first step to FINALLY getting some gigs booked in later this year. Hoping to grab some footage to share on YouTube while we're there. I cannot wait!

In other news after many months of putting it off, I finally got around to servicing the electronics on my homemade Satin-X doubleneck and I really don't know why I keep putting it off because it's SOOO much nicer to play after I do it! The neck switch was cleaned for the first time in probably 18 years(?!) and it's guillotine switching so smoothly and reliably now! After going through a few different brands of contact cleaner, it seems like Kontakt10 (Servisol) is the winner for getting the dust and scratchiness out of the pots too! We'll see how time tells in terms of the longevity, but it's been super reliable so far! Next on the long-overdue-and-put-off-things-to-service list are the homemade Retro Rotary leslie speaker which was due for oiling last May I think.... oof... (it's a pain, but good too keep on top of it even if it is running smoothly (at the moment)), and the Jazz bass which needs a complete overhaul on the control electronics! All the new parts have been ordered so the latter will definitely be something for the month to come with the former a hopeful shout as well! Wish me luck!

Back to BTTB news and I'm super happy to share that Button Down Radio is still giving the Hopes and Dreams album some love even after all these years! Thanks so much for playing "The Hardest Part" on the show next to some top class Ska acts from around the world! It's always a pleasure and an honour:

https://www.facebook.com/buttondownradio5446/posts/pfbid02ouqjH4sXm7xb8tfKG2zpfMp4ELWh22npsWkropLjkVQ7vqkrHvrAJg6DzeRBWEaxl

Finally for this month's news, it's onto the gear and guitar videos for the month as usual and it's another 2-a-week packed playlist for you! Not much guitar this time actually but there's a whole bunch of other fun things instead concluding with a teaser from the upcoming Better Than The Book album! Here's the usual playlist link with the added videos:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWEmqIhrNPvQTBoOjZdKLgL4ecTvLz6sm

And here's a list of the latest additions:

• Cécile Corbel - Our House Below - Balalaika cover (from Studio Ghibli Arrietty)
• Ahhh Scratch Akai MPC1000
• White Noise Scratching Akai MPC1000
• Roland TR-08 + Korg NTS-1 = Drone Machine!
• Pink Floyd - The Wall - In The Flesh? Intro Melodica Cover
• The Yardbirds / Graham Gouldman - Heart Full of Soul Acoustic Cover
• Organ Overdrive with the Orange Amps Micro Dark
• P.O.D. - Youth of the Nation Intro cover on Yamaha Reface CP
• Better Than The Book upcoming album teaser: Mixing "Hearts Racing Backwards"

We'll be taking a beat based detour for most of next month before returning to some good old metal guitar! Hope you enjoy it and there's more to come every Thursday and Sunday as usual!

That about wraps things up for this month unless you're a $10 Patreon Supporter in which case you have another exclusive mix demo from the upcoming BTTB album to look forward to (a track called "Rewrite")! Looks like I'll be mostly busy mixing Better Than The Book, doing more live show practice, recording more videos, and servicing equipment, so no doubt it's going to be a jam packed month before I have my taxes to look forward to in April! JOY! In any case I hope you have a great month ahead and thanks as always for supporting my music and projects however you can! Fun times are 'acomin'!!! Hope you're as excited as I am, and take care!

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Still going strong with those videos, equipment mixes and all...

...aaand the practice sessions are commencing! :D Will there be footage?

Hope all goes as planned this time, and hyped about those gigs! Good news all around.

Indeed indeed! :D Happy you're enjoying them (and the next few may sound familiar for you specifically too :D)

And YEAH! Super excited. I'm hoping to get some footage again for sure, though I imagine they'll be uploaded in May's batch of videos now. We'll see how it goes re practice first but fingers crossed we can put some gigs together later on in the year if things are sounding good. We were ready and booked in for 2020, now just to get back to (and beyond) that level :) Thanks for the well wishes!

Aw yeah! :D

That's pretty far into the future still then, hope I'm not off for summer already at that point; get to witness the reunion and strong-sounding Ska sesh in all it's glory, and it all goes as it should go, to grander and greater heights and bounds than ever prior... crossing fingers!

Thanks so much! Only a few days left to wait now :D

April 2024 Patreon & News Post: ONE mix left to go for Better Than The Book's upcoming album, the Better Than The Book LIVE band is back in action after 4 years apart, Bass and Leslie Speaker maintainence, more guitar videos and beatmaking + more!

Hi everyone and hope you're having a great start to April! Another month arrives and another set of updates! Let's get to it:

Onto the updates for the month, it's just ONE MIX LEFT to go for this intial and most in-depth round of polishing the tracks before a final go-over for Better Than The Book's upcoming album! 13 tracks done and ready for final pre-mastering checks now, but this final one is gonna be a big challenge! Essentially 2 complete band set-ups including rap vocals, 2 organs, horns AND a full string and brass orchestra?! It's the biggest mix session of the album (maybe even of my entire non-post production engineering career?) and I'm pacing myself through it, but things are sounding boss so far! Aiming to get this done in the coming weeks and I can't wait to share it with you!

Meanwhile on the Better Than The Book news front, March 9th was a monumentous day as for the first time since January 2020(!!!), the whole of the Better Than The Book live band were back together in the same room to jam out the tunes! It's been a rough few years to say the least and I honestly wasn't sure how things'd be after all this time, but I can say with upmost confidence that despite the 4 years away, we are sounding better than ever! 10 tracks were prepped, but only 9 made it to playing due to a lost click-track, but we got a tonne a practice in and a load of videos recorded too including 5 tracks we've not played together before (which I think turned out to be the best ones of the lot)! 8 videos are all edited now, albeit with the lo-fi go pro mic audio quality, and are scheduled for release on YouTube throughout May, and I can't wait to show you all what 4 years apart has done for us! Next practice has been schduled for Mayday weekend (with 2 additional tracks since last time), and hopefully we may have some advancements in video/audio tech by then. We shall see! The plan is to get another practice in after that, then if all's good, start looking for gigs! It's been much too long in the making! Get excited!

Next on the news, on top of a busy BTTB month it's been a super busy one with equipment maintainence too! After many (mainly pandemic) years of putting it off, and my first bass (a modified Squier Jazz Bass with additional secret so-called "BEEF" switch) being in a sorry and slowly deterioating state electronically, I FINALLY got around to serving the electronics including a complete overhall on the control cavity with some oo-lah-lah CTS pots which sound and feel FIYYYYEEEEEN! The bass which was used a lot during my gigging and recording years with Lights Camera Attraction, and on BTTB's Two Years On album is sounding and feeling better than ever, and while it's still residing at my parents' place until Eva and I have a place of our own, it's a lovely instrument which I look forward to playing whenever I'm back! While I was there, I also ended up servicing my dad's electric guitar too, I think the first time it's ever had a full service! He seemed very pleased with the result and it's always a plesure hear him inspired to play. On top of that, after some hesitation, I finally got around to servicing and oiling my homemade Leslie rotary speaker which although was running great before, should hopefully continue to run great again now for another year+. Given the complexities of the task, I decided to video the whole process too for anyone else to find useful! I think that video's scheduled for release at the very start of May before the BTTB live band stuff. It's been a busy time video editing this month! That about wraps things up for overdue equiment maintainence now, but I'm sure there'll be more to do before long!

Finally for this update, there's another load of videos to share! Still keeping up with the 2-a-week packed playlist, and as I mentioned last time, it was a beat based detour this month, followed by a return to some metal guitar! Check out the playlist below:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWEmqIhrNPvQTBoOjZdKLgL4ecTvLz6sm

And here's a list of the latest additions:

• Limp Bizkit inspired beat
• Lemon Tea Beat
• KORG Electribe EM-1 Instrumental Hip Hop beat (MF Doom Inspired)
• Nujabes inspired beatmaking on the Akai MPC 1000
• Nujabes inspired beatmaking on the Akai MPC 1000 with a Yoko Kanno Sample
• More chill Nujabes inspired beatmaking on the Akai MPC 1000
• Better Than The Book - Head Above Water (feat. Cyberdevil) Akai MPC 1000 Original Session from 2015!
• Numetal Grunge Tonality on Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar (Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Deftones, POD)
• Dissonant Metal Tonality Tapping on Vintage Modified Jaguar. Something between Wes Borland and DOOM?

Next month we're back to some organ as well as guitar, and also (would you believe) it'll have been a full year of doing these 2-a-week videos by then too?! Time sure does fly! I've got a special video planned to celebrate and hope you're enjoyed the ride so far!

That's it for this month (unless you're a $10 patron in which case you have a mix demo for Better Than The Book's "Don't Be Too Hard On Yourself" to look forward to)! It's looking to be another busy one ahead recording videos, finishing off this final BTTB mix (then getting onto the extra edits) + praticing for May's meet-up + I've got my taxes to look forward to: JOY! I'll be away at the end of the month too for some birthday merriment, and although it's not confirmed just yet, there's been talks of me taking on a bass guitar student too! Should be a fun challenge! Until the next update, I hope you have an amazing April to come and thanks as always for supporting me with this crazy musical adventure! Can't wait to show you the next chapter! Take care and get ready for the next wave!

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It's April 1 so hmm... are you really just down to one? :P Hope it is true! The time cometh soon if so! To rejoice to the orchestrated; optimally arranged and ever-evolving noise and voice of choice! A new album, hear and *dayum*.

Getting excited now! :D Seems almost too good to be true but...

This dissonant metal tapping's no joke either. :D Dope sound.

And plentiful both rewards and videos... it really is just a regular update post huh?! XD Still good fun, good to see things moving onwards at a steady and all the more hype-inducing pace! Looking forward to seeing some of those practice sessions later on!

Hehe, always the risk when posing these beginning of the month updates! All true, though unfortunatley I seem to have given myself food poisoning or something on Tuesday so this week's been a write off so far... that's NO JOKE DX Glad you enjoyed the metal tapping :D I've been on a bass practice quest as of late but I really want to get back to more guitar :) Hopefully I'll still make this month's targets, though it's gonna be tight now I think... At the very least would be great to get that final mix sorted + the videos recorded for the month. Thanks for the support CD!

Daaang! Good thing you didn't get that at the time of the update at least... that sucks, hope all's good soon. I'm hobbling around on a sprained ankle myself atm, though seems to be healing well, slowly but surely. Whoop, good luck and Ganbatte JB!

Ah DANG! Hope the ankle heals up soon too. I'm mostly better over here, just a bit sleep deprived post night shift now XD Indeed glad it didn't hit last month, that'd have been killer! Lots of catching up to do this week to make up for the missed time though DX Cheers CD!

Thank ya thank ya. :) Sprain seems to be getting better pretty quickly, walking in the mountains atm, so far it's going OK! Ah that nefarious schdulable sleep deprivation. XD Seems hectic for sure! Hope all goes well though! Cheers JB!