Ed Healy and I have a NEW (15 minute long) podcast, RPG COUNTDOWN, and it is LIVE! ALIVE!
We’ve been talking about doing this show for a long time, so getting RPGnow to sponsor it was huge for us. Please give it a quick listen and let us know what you think, and more importantly, hear to me sing and play all the music. Whee! Another creative outlet!
Pop on over to RPG Now and find us on the top right side of the screen (they're also running an intermittent banner ad for our show). You can also go to RPGcountdown.com as well.
Ed Healy and I have a NEW (15 minute long) podcast, RPG COUNTDOWN, and it is LIVE! ALIVE!
We’ve been talking about doing this show for a long time, so getting RPGnow to sponsor it was huge for us. Please give it a quick listen and let us know what you think, and more importantly, hear to me sing and play all the music. Whee! Another creative outlet!
Pop on over to RPG Now and find us on the top right side of the screen (they're also running an intermittent banner ad for our show). You can also go to RPGcountdown.com as well.
Neat! I've subscribed via iTunes. I really like the intro music.
"AAAARRRRR"!
"PEEEEEEEE"!
"GEEEEEEEE"!
beddybeddy good, guys. Great way to personalize a plain list of products on the site and give it some OOMPH! Scoring interviews with those creators is a huge boon! You're hypnotic voices command me to purchase these items, whether I need them or not...get outta my head!
And of course the driving mosh of a theme song was a great touch.
Neat! I've subscribed via iTunes. I really like the intro music.
Thank you for subscribing and also for diggin' on that theme, Taig!
"AAAARRRRR"!
"PEEEEEEEE"!
"GEEEEEEEE"!
beddybeddy good, guys. Great way to personalize a plain list of products on the site and give it some OOMPH! Scoring interviews with those creators is a huge boon! Your hypnotic voices command me to purchase these items, whether I need them or not...get outta my head!
And of course the driving mosh of a theme song was a great touch.
LOL. Thanks, Nomad. It's as if you're reading my mind because what you wrote is what we considered when designing the show's format.
Atomic Array only ever held an, at best, 6th place ranking on iTunes for its other games category, and RPG Countdown already beat that on its second day out, sitting in 3rd place for the time being (iTunes ranking is a fickle mistress). Dungeons and Dragons podcast is in number one, and I'm kinda thinking they'll hold that spot. ;)
Pics of the song and podcast recording. If you click on the pic it brings up the other pics at the studio. Check out the one where I'm being choked out from behind. Probably well deserved.
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Ed Healy and I have a NEW (15 minute long) podcast, RPG COUNTDOWN, and it is LIVE! ALIVE!
We’ve been talking about doing this show for a long time, so getting RPGnow to sponsor it was huge for us. Please give it a quick listen and let us know what you think, and more importantly, hear to me sing and play all the music. Whee! Another creative outlet!
Speaking of which, weren't you going to send me some of your stuff to listen to?
Speaking of which, weren't you going to send me some of your stuff to listen to?Ed Healy and I have a NEW (15 minute long) podcast, RPG COUNTDOWN, and it is LIVE! ALIVE!
We’ve been talking about doing this show for a long time, so getting RPGnow to sponsor it was huge for us. Please give it a quick listen and let us know what you think, and more importantly, hear to me sing and play all the music. Whee! Another creative outlet!
You mean, before I just wind up cannabalizing it all for podcast stuff? ;)
I swear on the glinting steel of Shubnuggetratbath that you shall have ronely tunes within a fortnight.
On its fourth day out, the first episode of RPG Countdown is at #2 in the iTunes 'other games' ratings, right behind WotC's own Dungeons and Dragons podcast. Considering we're in there amongst a talented field hundreds deep, this news rocks louder than the glorious dark gods of thund'rous metaldom.
Send your ravens to herald the coming of our world-blotting umbra! Oh wait... it's just a podcast.
Shiny, I made a promo for Dragonfire-games.com that plays about a third of the way in during the 2nd episode of the RPG Countdown podcast.
The guitar I'm using for the ad is the same one I tried giving you a couple years ago. Same one I used for the RPGnow commercial at the end of the show as well.
With all this RPG work I should melt polyhedral die onto the body. I've always wanted to mangle/customize a guitar.
Okay, as this thread has no readers I feel safe posting my innermost thoughts here....
"Dear diary, this morning was just like any other Saturday morning. As usual, my mother left one of her bras slung over the shower rod and I walked around with it on my head, imitating a varsity wrestler in the mirror as cartoons blasted in the background. I suppose the fact that I'm too old to get carded makes that a little weirder than it sounds..."
"But that's not the craziest thing! RPG Countdown, our two-episode old gaming podcast, briefly unseated the Dungeons & Dragons podcast tonight from the top position on the iTunes 'other games category'. I mean seriously... how did that happen? Apple's algorithms be trippin'."
"Anyway diary, except for that nosy salesman I had to hogtie in the basement and those four trips to Home Depot, today was a perfect day."
So what listening format is best for your, Ed's and RPGNow's mojo? Your site? Their site? iTunes?
So what listening format is best for your, Ed's and RPGNow's mojo? Your site? Their site? iTunes?
Hey, Trey! What a thoughtful question. I suppose RPGC would get the best ratings boost if you gave the show a listen over at iTunes. Each episode averages a mere 15 minutes in length, but stands a hundred feet tall (it needs to, podcasts feed solely on Redwood leaves).
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Shiny, I made a promo for Dragonfire-games.com that plays about a third of the way in during the 2nd episode of the RPG Countdown podcast.
The guitar I'm using for the ad is the same one I tried giving you a couple years ago. Same one I used for the RPGnow commercial at the end of the show as well.
With all this RPG work I should melt polyhedral die onto the body. I've always wanted to mangle/customize a guitar.
That is amazingly full of win. And I might be needing a new guitar sometime in the next year (my current cursed axe is patched with duct tape and the neck has warped into a weird sort of C-shape).
By the way, is it possible for someone that does not have iTunes to download the RPG Countdown podcast?
By the way, is it possible for someone that does not have iTunes to download the RPG Countdown podcast?
Sure! Just go to rpgcountdown.com, or rpgnow.com and it's on the front page.
That is amazingly full of win. And I might be needing a new guitar sometime in the next year (my current cursed axe is patched with duct tape and the neck has warped into a weird sort of C-shape).
Just lemme know. For electric guitars, I've got a Jackson and a custom krackle-dyed BC Rich (This Link shows what it looks like on a more elaborate, dated axe). The Rich is far prettier but the Charvel has better tone. If I was going onstage, I'd take the Rich. People wouldn't be able to look away from it.
Now if anyone out there can point out my ass from my elbow regarding which Korg synth system to save up for, I'll owe them the sun and moon. I'm getting offers to do a lot of composing, but I'd need a new synth and every different product page I see looks the same to me.
Gotta go to the store for that, I think. You can whittle it down a bit by looking at features, but these critters all have different personalities, and no matter how good one is, if the way it handles sound doesn't mesh with how you do music, you can end up bummed out because you've got a great rig and can't seem to do a damned thing with it. Any reason why Korg, specifically? I loved the M1 (I know, ancient history), then later, bought an N1. Great rig, but I can't seem to do a damned thing with it.
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Gotta go to the store for that, I think. You can whittle it down a bit by looking at features, but these critters all have different personalities, and no matter how good one is, if the way it handles sound doesn't mesh with how you do music, you can end up bummed out because you've got a great rig and can't seem to do a damned thing with it. Any reason why Korg, specifically? I loved the M1 (I know, ancient history), then later, bought an N1. Great rig, but I can't seem to do a damned thing with it.
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Thanks for weighing in, Trey. The only reason I chose Korg is because that's the only system I know anything about. If competitors offer the same thing less expensively, I'm all ears. What I really want to do is have a keyboard with a zillion available soundbanks, and the chance to use new soundbanks as they become available. Back in 2002, I did a lot of sequencing on an album using a synth from '95 with 400 instrument voices. I had to spend days futzing with the sound on every track to lose that 'cheap and dated' quality.
I'm used to Pro Tools for live sound recordings, but I'm going to have to dive into the Full Retail version of Logic to have the easiest time with the scoring assignments I have coming up. It seems no matter how much I think I know about the world there's always so much more to learn.
What boggles my mind these days is the variety of ways you can do things. When I got started with multitrack recording, unless you had access to a Synclav or Fairlight or something, the synth made the sound, which you played live, then went onto an analog cassette or reel-to-reel or something.
Now everything can live on the computer, with just a weighted controller keyboard, or everything can live on the keyboard workstation, or you can make a mix of somewhere in between.
So I guess it comes down to things like whether a person wants to do effects in the keyboard or in Logic, or both, whether all sounds are to come from the keyboard, or whether some are going to be modules installed into Logic, and so on and so on.
If you want to drop me a line, I can see if I can be any help in sorting through the sales material, but unfortunately, I have not paid much attention to this stuff for the last nine years, so I'll probably just sound like those dudes back in the 80s who kept rattling on about how classic Hammond B3s were when I was trying to check out the Roland Juno (It can make a sound like a helicopter? Radical!)
Anyway, nice job on the RPGCountdown. Cool format and a really good idea for a podcast.
Aw man, this is what you need!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
What boggles my mind these days is the variety of ways you can do things. When I got started with multitrack recording, unless you had access to a Synclav or Fairlight or something, the synth made the sound, which you played live, then went onto an analog cassette or reel-to-reel or something.
Now everything can live on the computer, with just a weighted controller keyboard, or everything can live on the keyboard workstation, or you can make a mix of somewhere in between.
So I guess it comes down to things like whether a person wants to do effects in the keyboard or in Logic, or both, whether all sounds are to come from the keyboard, or whether some are going to be modules installed into Logic, and so on and so on.
If you want to drop me a line, I can see if I can be any help in sorting through the sales material, but unfortunately, I have not paid much attention to this stuff for the last nine years, so I'll probably just sound like those dudes back in the 80s who kept rattling on about how classic Hammond B3s were when I was trying to check out the Roland Juno (It can make a sound like a helicopter? Radical!)
I don't have any need for live play. It seems Logic has quite a few sounds pre-installed, but I'd like to have a Alexandrian library worth of different voices to choose from. Weighted keyboard, yes. 64 keys will do fine. That's as far as I've gotten with research. I will definitely drop you a line.
Anyway, nice job on the RPGCountdown. Cool format and a really good idea for a podcast.
Thanks! Moonstew is having real luck with folks taking to what we're offering thus far.
Aw man, this is what you need!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Memories of 80's bands and lots of Miami Vice pastel clothing. The most impressive guy I ever saw play a shoulder-slung keyboard may have been the first guy to do it. I remember watching some old ELP concert where Keith Emerson actually made the act look experimental and cool... he had lead guitar virtuoso type confidence and mystique about him. Ever since, everyone else who tries it looks kinda funny to me. If you're gonna play that sort of instrument... play it like Prince would. All unapologetic and suggestive like, innit.
Why is it that every time Sean Patrick Fannon jumps into an episode to do a blurb about the deal of the week, I get an image in my head of Wayne and Garth interviewing Noah Vanderhoff?
I would pay many shiny sheckels if Rone were to belt out a version of "Dreamweaver" on the next ep of AA.