As a DIY artist, you need to manage every aspect of your music creation and marketing. At the same time, your audience’s attention span is shortening, so you feel the … Continue reading
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How to Record and Produce Music at Home
Are you trying to produce quality music from a home recording studio? You picked the perfect time! From Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, to … Continue reading
A Few Positives for Indie Music from 2020
A look back on music in a tough year Look, 2020 sucked. That shouldn’t be a controversial take at the end of a year with a seemingly endless string of … Continue reading
Are you making these 10 mixing mistakes in your home studio?
When people ask me questions about mixing, they’re often worried about whether they’re doing something wrong. They’ll ask whether they “should” be doing this, or if that is the “correct” … Continue reading
5 Must Haves For Your Home Recording Studio
Here’s What You Need To Record Music At Home Maybe you’re like me, and you’ve decided to re-examine your DIY home recording studio. After a long break and some New … Continue reading
Notes from an Independent Record Producer, Part 6: Six Tips for Successful Self-Producing
[This article is written by guest contributor and music producer Jamie Hill. For more music production advice, check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and … Continue reading
Add life to your mixes with these reverb tips from The Handsome Family’s Brett Sparks
The Handsome Family’s gothic Americana music has a timeless sound. That’s one of the reasons HBO’s True Detective series used their tune “Far From Any Road” in the opening credits. The haunting … Continue reading
Home Recording vs Professional Studio: Does it Matter?
[This article was written by guest contributor Steven James Wylie.] A recording story about the importance of the people you work with As technology has advanced in the last decade, the … Continue reading
Microphone Tutorial – 5 Top Tips to Get the Most from Your Affordable Vocal Mic
Recording vocals is a high-stakes part of the music-making process. Despite what your egomaniacal guitarist thinks, the vocals are what most people hearing your blood-sweat-&-tear-infused recording will actually listen to, … Continue reading
5 Tips to Improve Your Home Recordings Right Away
[This article was written by guest contributor Pat Walsh, lead guitarist of the band Chaser Eight.] As most of us are well aware, we’re now living in the age of … Continue reading