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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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Recording Boot Camp – Day 3

Day 3 is already upon us here at Ronan Chris Murphy’s Recording Boot Camp. Today we began to look at potential ways to record vocalists. “How do we record in a way that gets an exciting and interesting performance?” – Ronan Chris Murphy Fun gets recorded If there was any doubt I was awake this […]

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Recording Boot Camp – Day 2

Compression is your greatest weapon “Mastering compression is the difference between your recording sounding like a demo or sounding like the great albums of all time.” – Ronan Chris Murphy For many years I was mislead to believe the main job of a compressor was to soften transients and peaks on an incoming sound wave. […]

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Recording Boot Camp – Day 1

What do a Canadian, an American, an Italian, a British chap and a Swiss guy have in common? They are attending Ronan Chris Murphy’s six day Recording Boot Camp in Italy. At Abnegat Studios this beautiful Italian Wednesday morning, we began with an introduction learning that the essence to great recordings is simple. “Recording is […]

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Recording Boot Camp

There’s evolution in the air of home studios; there has been for some time. Some call it the 360 model; others the emergence of the truly DIY musician. With the ever expanding cloud of new software and the rapidly evolving ‘new’ music industry, recording artists, wannabe engineers and home recording enthusiasts the world over are […]

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When You Hit The Wall

When it’s too hard… When the path is uncertain and the answers aren’t there… Take a deep breath Imagine for a moment what you are to other people. Imagine who you are to them Consider how your talents touch people in the most mysterious and unexpected of ways. Consider how great it is to be […]

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Music Success in Nine Weeks – Week 9

Creating a product line is not just for the “Big Boys”. It’s clear that any creative musician, photographer, film-maker, publicist or web-designer can make money. We just need to ramp up our creativity to find ways how. “The people who succeed in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances […]

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Music Success in Nine Weeks – Week 8

In Week 8 we learn about getting off-line and back in to the real world: Networking, meeting people, collaborating, sharing and becoming a shark in a sea full of tuna (see below). The key goal to successful networking is to be memorable. Being memorable You can become memorable by developing: An authentic interest in other […]

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Music Success in Nine Weeks – Week 7

November snow in rural England during week 7 of the Music Success in Nine Weeks blog challenge was a reminder to always expect the unexpected. Like marmite chocolate. And to stay warm. My unexpected gem was in this simple equation: The size of your email list = the size of your income How big is […]

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Music Success in Nine Weeks – Week 6

Artists you are a commodity and your fans are your customers. This is the first lesson I learnt in Week 6 of Ariel Hyatt’s Music Success in Nine Weeks blog challenge. All You Need is 1000 True Fans This week we are introduced to this article on the power of acquiring 1000 true fans suggesting […]

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