More than 90 musicians fired up RiffWorks guitar recording software, including RiffWorks T4 (free), and recorded Monster-themed songs! They created songs on thier own and with friends worldwide using free online collaboration built into RiffWorks. Up to $5600 in prizes!
RiffRumble™ 13 is hosted by Sonoma Wire Works, developers of RiffWorks recording software and RiffWorld.com online collaboration and song posting community.
The celebrity guest judge is Todd Rundgren, who used RiffWorks to record his latest album, Arena!
Sponsors for this round are Schecter Guitars, Seymour Duncan, IK Multimedia, Sonic Reality, and RECORDING Magazine.
3 Categories to Win
First Prize (Todd Rundgren's Choice): First prize goes to the musician who creates Todd Rundgren's favorite song chosen from a list of the top 5 songs nominated by contestants. If the song is a collaboration, the winner will be the person who began the collaboration. Prizes include a Schecter C-1 electric guitar upgraded with a pair of Seymour Duncan AHB-1 Blackouts humbuckers.
- Schecter C-1 Electric Guitar - Schecter has a reputation for incredible quality, innovative designs, aggressive tone & styling, and great value. The C1 is a perfect demonstration of everything that Schecter brings to the table. The C1 has a Mahogany body, a Maple/Rosewood neck, and the TONEPROS Bridge featuring a couple of nearly invisible setscrews that simply lock the bridge to the mounting posts. The idea is simple, but the benefits are exponential. Solidify your bridge in place like stone, and it will never fall off again! No more worrying about scratching the face of your guitar or readjusting the intonation and action after a simple cleaning or changing of strings. Your guitar will sustain and play in tune like never before. Because our bridges secure solidly in place, your intonation will be much more accurate, and stay that way! $649 MSRP
- Seymour Duncan AHB-1 Blackouts humbuckers - The Schecter guitar will be upgraded with a pair of these 9-volt active humbuckers for aggressive playing styles. Recommended for old school metal, garage, punk, thrash, drop tunings, and other heavy rock styles. The "other" USA-made active humbuckers use unbalanced inputs in a differential preamp. An unbalanced differential preamp is not very effective at canceling hum. Seymour Duncan engineers figured out how to capture the tone that players want in an active design, but using balanced inputs. The result is 12dB to 14dB less noise, more lows, more highs, and more output. Simply put, Blackouts have more tone than other active pickups. $248 MSRP
Second Prize (Contestants' Choice): An IK Multimedia Downloadable Prize Pack. This includes AmpliTube® 2, T-RackS®, and Classik Studio Reverb Value $1200 per prize pack. Up to 4 musicians who use RiffWorks to create the one song chosen as favorite by a contestants vote will each receive this prize pack.
- IK Multimedia's AmpliTube 2 is a Guitar Amp & FX modeling plug-in that includes:
- Amp & Stomp modeling
- Post effects modeling
- Separate Pre, EQ, Amp, Cabinet and Mic modeling
- 20,000 different amp configurations
- Stomp, amp and post effects included
- Includes AmpliTube X-GEAR plug-in and standalone
- For MacOS® and Windows®
- IK Multimedia's T-RackS® Plug-in: Analog modeled mastering plug-ins includes:
- State-of-the-art 6 band Mastering EQ
- Tube modeled stereo Compressor
- Multi-band Master Limiter
- Soft clipping output stage
- Complete Mastering Suite
- IK Multimedia's Classik Studio Reverb is a suite of four high-end studio-quality reverbs modeled after popular outboard classics that includes:
- Suite of 4 separate reverb units: Plate, Room, Hall, and Inverse
- State of the art DSP based reverb algorithms
- 2 operational modes: Easy and Advanced
- S6 easy to use controls in Easy Mode
- More than 100 Parameters in Advanced Mode
- Highly customizable 8x8 Modulation Matrix per unit
- 4 assignable Macros per unit
- Full automation through host sequencer
Third Prize (Popular Choice): Up to 4 musicians who use RiffWorks to create the song that wins second prize will each receive their choice of 3 RiffWorks InstantDrummer Session Downloads by Sonic Reality. Value $9.99 per session. Plus RECORDING Magazines!
- RiffWorks InstantDrummer Session Downloads by Sonic Reality - Dave Kerzner from Sonic Reality remarked, "Sonoma and Sonic Reality share a similar philosophy when it comes to music-making - getting the technical stuff out of the way in order to get to the creative part faster. RiffWorks is brilliant and we're thrilled to be able to offer our drums and grooves in this platform so that guitar players can jam with such a diverse range of sounds we've captured all over the world. It's a chance to open up a range of Sonic Reality samples to guitarists that may be new to what we do and that's exciting."
- RECORDING Magazines - RECORDING is The Magazine For The Recording Musician. It offers readers a fascinating and useful blend of topical articles, how-to columns, tough yet balanced reviews, interviews with industry professionals, DIY guides, critiques of readers' recordings, and much more.
Submission Rules
- Log into RiffWorld.com using the same username you use for RiffWorks. Create your membership page if you haven't already. How?
- Record an original song with RiffWorks:
- Create a song on your own or
- Create an "Invite-Only" Collaboration, then invite 1 – 3 musicians worldwide to collaborate with you. How?
- Participate in as many RiffRumble 13 online collaborations as you would like to (invite-only).
- No covers please.
- Song created with a "Monster-theme" are more likely to win as that is the theme of this contest.
- Vocals welcome but not required.
- No rule against using third party applications with RiffWorks, but you must use RiffWorks to record and/or collaborate online.
- Any collaborator may submit his/her mix of a collaboration to the Rumble. If you would like only one person to RiffCast the song to RiffRumble 13, then communicate that to your "band mates", but there is no rule against it.
- Solo songs that have been posted previously to RiffWorld are eligible. Collaborations/RiffLinks that were started before September 10 are not eligible.
- Songs submitted to previous RiffRumbles are not eligible.
- When your song is ready to be entered, click the RiffCast button in RiffWorks, click the Station pull-down menu, and select "RiffRumble 13" any time starting October 8 through October 21 (23:59). Public Voting (for the second prize) also begins October 8th!
- Each individual may only RiffCast one entry, but can collaborate in as many other people's collaborations as they wish.
- Everyone who uses the RiffLink feature in RiffWorks to collaborate, and contributes to a winning entry will win - limit 4 collaborators.
- Entries may be deleted and re-entered as many times as you'd like until October 21st (23:59), but Shouts/Votes may be reset to zero.
- Check this page to be sure your entry appears. If you don't see your song right away, wait 1 hour, and if it doesn't show up please try again. If it still doesn't show up, please contact support because it is not entered correctly. Please don't wait until the last minute.
- If your song is assigned to Admin instead of your username, it means you have never logged into RiffWorld. Log into RiffWorld with your RiffWorks username, and edit your Musician Profile, then RiffCast your entry again.
- Entries are placed under Sonoma Wire Works Website Terms of Use.
- Please be prepared to present the.rws file.
- Contestants worldwide are eligible.
- Vote in the Contestants Choice category to be eligible to win (see below).
Voting Rules - Contestants' Choice Category
- Each contestant (every contributor) votes for their favorite song that they did not contribute to. Vote by emailing the name of the song to marketing@sonomawireworks.com between October 22 and October 28th (23:59). Please vote even if you do not receive an email from marketing. All Contestants (including all collaborators) must vote in this category in order to win either category.
Voting Rules - Popularity Category
- Public voting is open for 3 weeks! Votes will be accepted as positive 'Shouts' on each song October 8th (00:01 PST) - October 28th (23:59 PST).
- Invite people to add a comment to your song as soon as it is entered .
- Negative or inflamitory comments may be removed.
- Individuals, including all contestants/participants and the public, may leave one shout per song entry.
- Voters may be logged in when they leave a comment or leave a comment as a guest. We have ways to see if people vote more than once. Tell people not to vote more than once. If someone votes for a song more than once, that song may become disqualified. Let us know if you notice duplicate votes.
- Contestants who receive more than one vote per person, or cheer more than once for a song may be disqualified.
- Voters must vote from their own individual computers.
Winners
Winners will be announced in the RiffRumble Forum and on this page by November 3rd.
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Previous RiffRumble Contests
RiffRumble I, RiffRumble II, RiffRumble III, RiffRumble IV, RiffRumble V, RiffRumble VI, RiffRumble VII, RiffRumble VIII, RiffRumble IX, RiffRumble X, RiffRumble 11, and RiffRumble 12
Thanks to the RiffRumble 13 Sponsors:
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