Onesheet Review

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Ever had such an untidy web presence that you wish you had a magic tool to clear it all up? Me too. As musicians and bands grapple with Web 2.0 and the increasing number of websites to become present on, there are now tools ready to help you tidy up your game. One of these [...]

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Basic Controls of a Compressor

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Have you ever found yourself staring at an audio compressor asking yourself what all those controls do? Or maybe you’ve had a stab at trying to use a compressor whilst recording an instrument, wildly and randomly adjusting the controls, hoping for the best? “Mastering compression is the difference between your recording sounding like a demo [...]

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Music Success in Nine Weeks – Book Review and Case Study

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Music Success in Nine Weeks, is the workbook for musicians that helped me to clarify my direction as a recording artist. It is by far the one of the simplest and most practical guides to gaining clear direction for active musicians who want to gain structure and direction with their efforts. The Price $34.99 downloadable [...]

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Know Your Boundaries – The Joy of Saying “No”

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Do you ever say “No?” Can you say “No” confidently and without further justification (to yourself?) Saying “No” is one of the most powerful statements you can make. Saying “No” is about knowing (“No”-ing) your personal boundary. Your personal boundary is the border of your own private country. The one you live in. The one [...]

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Can’t Pay $$$ on Pro Studios? – Software You Can Record With

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Are you in a world where professional studio recording time is an expense? A world where artists are making hit records at home? A world where you know there is home recording software out there but you don’t know where to start? How about with an overview of home recording software is out there. And [...]

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Great Creative Getaways – 9 Secrets

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Imagine this. You’re an artist with a big showcase coming up in a couple of months. You’ve been doing a lot of preparation and there’s still a lot yet to prepare: schedules, materials, people. The reality of the big event is near and you are uncertain if everything that needs to get done is going [...]

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How To Create A Portable Vision Board

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Getting clear on what we want out of life can often be confusing and sometimes overwhelming. Lacking a clear vision disrupts our creativity as we worry about what we should do next. There are many tools and techniques to help us. Vision boards are one of them. Vision boards are a place we can collate [...]

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Recording Boot Camp – Day 6

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So here it is, the last day of Ronan Chris Murphy’s Home Recording Boot Camp at Abnegat Studios in Vicenza, Italy. Mixing Following on with the topic of mixing from Day 5, Ronan took us through the process of reality checking: Listening to our mixes against reference material. Here it was highlighted the importance of [...]

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Recording Boot Camp – Day 5

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Before I get all serious with the fun stuff we did today, I want to make clear that this boot camp is a lot of fun. A lot of fun. That’s largely to do with the immediate company: Ronan, Marco, Eric, Andrea, Steve, studio owner Jean Charles and Regi, the dog, whose unexpected appearance on [...]

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Recording Boot Camp – Day 4

Fame at last Let’s face it. We’re all in music to get famous? No? Of course we’re not, however, one of the great risks of dabbling in this industry is that you never know who might end up being interested in you. I was intrigued to find an Italian reporter sneaking around Abnegat Studios. The [...]

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