Being Successful in Today’s Music Business: Plan Your Work/Work Your Plan

October 26, 2010 Music Business

Today’s music economy is all over the place, isn’t?  Artists and/or bands have to work harder than ever to get ahead, sell product, book shows and of course: make some money.  So, how do you do all those things?  Is it who you know?  Is it how good your music is?  Is it how big [...]

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Eleven Rack on Steroids

September 28, 2010 Gear

Admittedly, I like real guitar amps.  I like putting a microphone in front of them and turning them up really loud too (who doesn’t?)  That whole generation of guitar processors have never been the real deal, but I must confess:  I’ve always kept one around for convenience or a last minute fix, etc.  Then the [...]

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Abbey Road Footage

September 19, 2010 Sessions

For those of you that are enjoying my Abbey Road story in the October issue of Recording Magazine, here’s a video clip from those sessions. This is from one of the many guitar overdub sessions we did. The footage was recorded with a Flip Video camera. Considering we had the monitors cranked, I was real [...]

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Recording Vocals In Pro Tools

September 13, 2010 Pro Tools

There are two popular ways to record vocals in Pro Tools.  First of all, we are working off the assumption that we are going to record more than on take so we can cut them up and paste the best parts together later. (often called “comping” for “composite” track)  The first way to achieve this [...]

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