June 16, 2020 The Coronavirus is hitting session musicians worldwide hard. Here’s our very own survival guide for you if you’ve lost session work and are looking for other revenue streams.
June 5, 2020 Having a drum set at home is such a thrill, opening up hours upon hours of fun time for you and possibly your band mates. However, that also means that the noise levels will go up, causing disturbance to your family or even your neighbors. If you are keen to reduce the amount of sound that will escape from your studio, have a look at this areas where you can make some changes to reduce noise.
Advice, Music Tech, Recording tagged drumming, music tech, recording June 3, 2020 The right master is said to provide you much more than the ending touch-ups on your soundtracks. It should enhance the different ends of your mix. To sum it up, the best master will make your mix so much better and improve it.
Choosing the right mastering style might not be an easy task. For the type of mixes currently or nowadays, it is significant that you select the mastering style, which is flexible and can adapt to differences in many ways.
If you are looking for tips to select the mastering style for your mix, then you are in the right place. Below are some key points to be kept in mind for your convenience and help in the future.
March 4, 2020 Whether you’re creating your next album or a weekly podcast, these four upgrades can make your recordings sound more polished.
Advice, DIY, Recording tagged acoustic panelling, cabling, home studio, vocal mic January 6, 2020 Making music can be incredibly expensive. With many musicians shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to have their songs professionally recorded and produced, most musicians hope to find more cost-effective ways to make music. If you’re looking for more affordable methods to make music, consider using your phone. With the following tips, you can share and create music from your smartphone:
July 25, 2019 Innovations in technology have made it easier than ever to set up a recording studio. It’s no longer necessary to invest thousands of dollars (and hundreds of square feet) in a bulky mixing board. Many of today’s most popular songs were created with little more than a laptop and some software, but it still takes a few simple things to make a great home studio to capture vocals and instruments at their best. As you build your home studio, include these five elements.
DIY, Music Business, Recording tagged home recording, home studio, music studio June 27, 2019 Guest post by Stephen Bartlett. This article originally appeared on Soundfly’s Flypaper
We all know the saying: “A picture is worth a thousand words.”
For me, when I’m mixing a track or an album, I feel like I’m painting a three-dimensional picture. Using panning, frequency sculpting, and volume adjustments as my tools, I’m creating something that will transport the listener somewhere else in space and time (which is why I love music so much). So surely, this three-dimensional, transformative picture is worth like ten thousand words!
Of all the memorable lessons I’ve been taught over the last 15 years, I think learning to mix in surround sound has helped me paint that picture as vividly as possible, each and every time. Here’s why.
May 2, 2019 If you’re a musician with some experience in audio recording, owning and operating a home studio can be a good way to make some extra money on the side or even build a full-time business. While the earnings may not be huge at first, it’s entirely possible to make $20 an hour or more for recording, mixing and mastering songs. Here are four tips that will help you put together your home studio so you can start making money from it.
DIY, Recording, Studio Technology tagged DIY, gear, home, music equipment, music software, musician, recording May 1, 2019 Roger Waters, the Pink Floyd bassist and creative force, is a known detractor of the modern music industry. The Times Arts editor Alex O’Connell explains “Waters said how grateful he was to have grown up when an artist’s talent and hard work was rewarded financially - unlike nowadays.”
Waters slams digital music providers, “When this gallery of rogues and thieves had not yet interjected themselves between the people who aspire to be creative and their potential audience and steal every f***ing cent anybody ever made and put it in their pockets to buy f***ing huge mega-yachts and gulfstream fives with.” He continues, “I blame the punters as well to some extent, a whole generation that’s grown up who believe that music should be free.”
Music Tech, Recording tagged Digital, Digital Music, music recording, recording January 23, 2019 Production, Recording tagged drum, electronic drums, music production, production, recording November 14, 2018 Imagine you have been writing and producing your songs for hours and managed to record in a recording studio. Now what? Your songs need to be mixed and mastered!
You could mix the song by yourself but you need a lot of experience, analog equipment and good studio acoustics to get in the ball park of a professional mix.
It doesn’t make much sense to rush things and to release a track with mediocre audio quality after spending much time and energy while recording. Another option is to hire a professional mixing engineer with experience, album credits and equipment.
Nowadays a lot of music is produced via the internet. With strict deadlines time is limited and artists can’t spend days in the studio along with the engineer. You can find suitable engineers and mixing services online world wide. With Skype, Email and other services its easy to work together and a lot of time is saved over attended sessions.
Recording tagged home recording, mixing, music business, music pro November 2, 2018 I’ve been making home recordings for about 10 years, which means I’ve learned through mistakes.
So here are five recording mistakes beginner producers make. Five mistakes I’ve made.
DIY, Recording tagged diy musician, home recording, music production September 6, 2018 Guest post by Michael Hahn. This article originally appeared on Soundfly’s Flypaper
Engineers can get pretty fired up when they’re talking about mixing music. Your sound is a difficult thing to describe — throw in a layer of technical jargon and it can be downright frustrating just to talk about your tracks.
Fortunately, there are some common terms engineers use to help communicate mix issues and the qualities of sound. I’ll go through seven of the most common “odd” mixing terms, what they mean, and how to deal with the elements of your mix they refer to.
June 22, 2018 Having Mastered Over 8 Million Individual Tracks, LANDR Now Offers Production-Proven Premiere AI Album Mastering
Master a complete album in minutes with new artificial intelligence (AI)-driven album mastering offered through LANDR.com. By simplifying the technical challenges of mastering an album, LANDR is freeing artists to focus exclusively on the creative aspects of putting together albums, compilations, mashups and mixtapes. With the release of album mastering, LANDR is ensuring that artists have a fast, easy and affordable way to deliver a cohesive, unified listening experience across an album without compromising independent mastering from track to track.
