Articles in the Producing Category
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The internet has tremendously altered the way musicians interact with fans, vendors, potential labels, and other bands and artists. It has opened up avenues for streaming music to the world, selling merchandise online, and live video feeds for the people that can’t be at the show. The Internet has allowed otherwise dopey garage bands to become overnight sensations (well, almost overnight). The availability and unrestricted views into the lives of these bands and artists has made them even more appealing than before, showing fans that they’re real people, just like …
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What makes a good audio engineer? What makes a good musician? Or producer? One of the main characteristics is the ability to listen to a song and hear what is there as well as what is missing.
As a producer/engineer, musicians rely on and trust my ear. They know that I will be able to guide them through the writing or recording process with confidence. I have no personal interest or investment in their music other than to see them succeed. I approach each project with this mentality. I guess that …
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Are you busy? Because I am. I don’t know that I’ve ever been busier in my entire life, really. And I’m not complaining.
I’ve been working closely with the band Etna Green from South Bend, Indiana for the last couple of years. We did their first album together in Missouri. The entirety of the album was recorded in no more than 44 hours. All tracks, including vocals. Thanks to time constraints and such, we were forced to blow through it and see what happened. The final product, after 80 plus hours of editing …
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Have you ever listened to the radio and heard a song that just didn’t “deserve” to be there? Thought that your band should be? Well, as sad as it is, in this current state of the industry, you will never be heard outside of your friends. And you can thank MySpace and the internet for that.
It used to be that in the old days you could record a demo, put together a decent press kit, and ship off a few copies to the labels. They’d listen to them, and if …
