(To read this series from the beginning, start here.) In last week’s post, I wrote about how you can experiment with whatever gear you have and discover the best way to capture your performance with your own gear, in your own space. And I wrote that we would ignore the quality of your gear for… Continue reading “Every Time I Record Myself, It Sounds Terrible.” Part Two – What’s Gear Got to Do, Got to Do With It?
We have all watched, maybe in a movie or documentary, or on YouTube, a video clip of musicians in the studio being recorded by a nerdy engineer, and it sounds like pure magic. This is so inspirational; it makes us all want to be there, recording music! So we buy some recording gear, bring it… Continue reading “Every Time I Record Myself, It Sounds Terrible.” Part One – What a Mic Wants, What a Mic Needs…
Are you committed? Should you be committed? This morning I was at the piano, playing a song I had written some time ago. This was a song I really enjoyed writing, and I felt that, by writing it, I had accomplished something special. However, time reveals the cracks and the flaws, and I had a… Continue reading Don’t Be Afraid to Commit!
“Allister treated recording my debut single with as much importance as I did, which is SO important as someone who is already feeling the pinch. Not only did I feel that the stakes were just as high for him, I also felt the immense support he had that we’d get it right throughout the process… Continue reading Vinitha
Rhyme is an essential ingredient to songwriting; there’s no doubt about it. Rhyme is used to define the structure of your song, draw attention to key messages in your lyric, and provide pleasure to the brain in much the same way as a piece of candy on the tongue. Because our brains understand rhyme innately,… Continue reading Does my song have to rhyme?
Are you frustrated by the massive gap between where you see yourself now and where you want to be? Maybe you see yourself one day standing on stage and delivering mind-melting rock ‘n roll to 10,000 screaming fans. Maybe you see yourself sinking a game-winning basket in an NBA playoff series. Whatever your dream, there’s… Continue reading You don’t need to see the Horizon, as long as you can stay on the Path
It would appear that today’s musician is faced with a long list of bills to pay in order to make music and get it heard by an audience, and on the other side of the coin, it seems more and more difficult to earn enough money to pay these bills. First of all, it’s completely… Continue reading Why is making music so expensive? Am I getting screwed over?
Whether or not you play cards, perhaps the best advice you can hear as an artist is “play to your strong suit”. For some artists, their strength is their musical ability, not their songwriting. For others, it will be the opposite – some artists have greatly developed their songwriting voice, and/or their singing voice, but… Continue reading Should I hire a musician to play my instrument?
A mix engineer will take the tracks that you have recorded in a studio or at home, and blend them into a mixed recording that can be played back on any playback device. By ‘tracks’, we mean the recorded signals which came from each individual microphone or instrument while each performer was recording their performance. … Continue reading How Do I Choose A Mix Engineer?
Nowadays, technology allows us considerable flexibility in making records. Not only are the tools of recording becoming more affordable and available, but the ability to easily share files makes it easier than ever before to record with other musicians and engineers, anywhere in the world. This includes the ability for you to record your own… Continue reading Can I Record My Own Tracks?
