What online and in-person activities have you found the most worthwhile in building a client base for mixing and mastering? I’m going to expand on this a bit, and make it a bit more generic for anyone trying to make…
Music And Technology
Resources for the Recording Musician
Finding and Keeping clients in the Music Biz
Tagged with: business, clients, Marketing, Music Business, networking, Online
Posted in Ask MusicTECH!, Music Business
Posted in Ask MusicTECH!, Music Business
WordPress web sites for Musicians
“Do you have a web site?” As a band or artist of any type, that is a question you may get asked often. These days it is more important than ever to have a strong web presence to promote your…
Relaunch of the FREE Musicians’ Classifieds
Just a quick post to mention that the FREE Musicians’ Classifieds site has been entirely reworked and upgraded (version 6 now) and is once again open for musicians. It’s an all new system, so I had to start fresh and…
Posted in Music Business
Getting Started as a Mixing Engineer or Music Producer
Here’s a question I got via email this morning: What one piece of advice would you give to someone starting out at producing/mixing music? I can’t quite decide if I’d rather wear the producer’s hat or the mixing engineer’s hat.…
Words of inspiration from Young Guru
Tuesday night we had the opportunity to attend an inspirational presentation from Young Guru. This was an event put on by the Pacific Northwest chapter of the Recording Academy, and their Grammy U program. I was able to bring a…
Posted in Music Business, Music Production
Advice from Superstar Producer/Engineer Elliot Scheiner
Elliot Scheiner is one of the top producers/engineers in the world, with 24 Grammy nominations, 7 Grammy awards, 4 Emmy nominations, 1 Emmy award, 3 TEC Awards nominations, etc…. The list goes on! Even if you don’t know his name,…
Tagged with: advice, Engineer, getting started, Mixing, Music Business, Music Producer, Music Production, Producer, Recording, Recording Engineer, tips
Posted in Music Business, Music Production, Recording
Posted in Music Business, Music Production, Recording
Maximize Your Recording Budget
Revised & Updated! This is an old article I wrote in the early 90s. Quite a bit has changed since then, but most of the advice here still applies. With the reworking of my site in 2012, I have gone…
Tagged with: Budget, Do It Yourself, Engineer, Mastering, Mixing, Music Business, Music Production, Producer, Recording, Studios
Posted in Mastering, Mixing, Music Business, Music Production, Recording
Posted in Mastering, Mixing, Music Business, Music Production, Recording
Getting started as a songwriter
This was a reply to a personal e-mail to me from someone (who didn’t wish for their e-mail to appear on the site) who wanted to become a songwriter. One of their non music-business friends thought that in order to…
Can You Really Do It All Yourself?
Recently, someone was thinking about buying a digital recording system and was wondering if he really could get major label quality results from a low budget home studio system. He was specifically concerned about whether or not he would be…
Tagged with: Do It Yourself, Home Recording, Mixing, Quality, Recording, Songwriting
Posted in Mixing, Music Business, Music Production, Recording, Songwriting
Posted in Mixing, Music Business, Music Production, Recording, Songwriting
How to become a Professional Producer / Engineer
Here is a reply of mine to a person who asked “how do you become a professional producer?”. First of all, realize that there is a difference between a “producer” and an “engineer”. The producer is pretty much the creative…
Tagged with: Career, Engineer, Music Business, Music Producer, Music Production, Producer, Professional, Recording Engineer
Posted in Music Business, Music Production, Recording
Posted in Music Business, Music Production, Recording
