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good topic, lots of useful little nuggets in there what about royalties collection? music contracts?

hehe. a blanket i can do! thanks guys.

i want to record a convincing breathy, initimate vocal. i have an akg perception 220 mic, large diaphragm and will bre cording into a computer to do the eq etc (I don't record with any effects inline, other than sometimes a small amount of compression. i will be recording a female who happens to have quite a thin voice so it looks to be a challenge. thanks for the suggestions michael, always handy to know. i might have a little problem due to my studio space. perhaps hanging a blanket behind the mic might help? i know that's not ideal acoustics.

how far away should the refelective surfaces be?

if it makes you feel better, we always have more to learn than we know i think.

sunny afternoon - the kinks

i was too busy laughing at the pathetic "songs" it churned out.... that really sucks! i can't believe they used that crap as an advert

i have my opinion, what's yours?

nice to see how songstuff is coming along. new features being added etc. as a music site it's really pretty cool, and it's good to see site crew active on the forum. i thought it about time i acknowledged this in my blog!

a lot of useful info in this topic

pretty good so far

low spark of high heeled boys - traffic

surely art is only art if it is created? otherwise it is simply an idea...

i often see lyrics posted with no title and that got me thinking. something had to at what point do you usually select a title? do you have criteria for title selection?

for your budget you might struggle to get a decent 8 way i/o box. your mackie doesn't have individual channel outs. to get in budget you'll probably need simple line level i/o break out box, so you would either need to upgrade or move to a totally in PC mixer and invest more in the soundcard/break out box to get 8 line and 8 mic (phantom powered) break out box. even so it's not that cheap (1$k NZ at least for the basic line in sound card and bob alone, probably more). Something like the focusrite saffire pro 26 as the basic 8 line in. desk wise you could look at a soundcraft spirit desk, the model with 8 channels with individual line outs (is a 16 channel desk i think)

i see endless debate of what art is. "this is art" art is in the eye or ear (or nose?) of the beholder. we live in such a polarized society of either / or with little room for the maybe. media drives this, opinion making, taste making. fact is, it's generally a lot of crap. it's just someone else's opinion, no better or worse than your opinion. good art? i guess that brings in other subjects like technique, vision etc but still is that not dealing with someone else's opinion? there's a difference i suppose between the opinion of those who create art, those who study art as non artists and the general public, but those opinions are contextual. each views the art from their own abstraction. doesn't matter if the media is visual, or aural, touch, smell or taste or some combination. so is art something that simply pleasantly stimulates the senses? stimulates the brain? provokes reaction? do you have to choose? no. you don't. no matter what the press try to say or make you believe. art isn't taste. we can all see something we don't like yet know it is art. art defies definition. at least accurate definition. nearest i could come up with is "an expression of creativity by a group or individual" hmmm. no mention of the perspective of the viewer/listener. so perhaps art is not in the eye of the beholder, but in the eye of the artist? entertainment is in the eye of the beholder

never can say goodbye - jackson 5

nice one

most build a library. you need jingles to let people see what you can do. getting clients takes time. you could try creating jingles for known DJs and sending them in. is a good way to get noticed... but your jingles better be good

also worth looking at is incidental music for film and tv and of course title music. for jingles there are two approaches... writing for a specific client, or creating basic jingle music that can be voiced over later. in the first you have to have a client (a task on it's own) but the key is to minimize your effort and turn out a good jingle, quickly, and it is likely to be based on guidelines given by your client. with an ongoing client there may be general guidelines or a plan for jingles over time. you may be expected to provide voice artists (or yourself!) or record people specified by your client. above all you have to be able to record both speech and singing. jingles are very short, so you have to think in those terms. If your jingle lasts 3 - 8 seconds then you need to get dynamics, catchy and a message across. jingle writers also need to know mixing and production, mastering for specific media, have access to studio facilities, and you will need to build a sound fx library. same rules apply for growing a ready made jingle library (for those on less of a budget etc). you need to look at general jingles and trends in jingles, then create basic jingles that meet those, maybe with example voice over.

a pity. maybe members who were going to go to the meet could still meet up and go to a bar? i guess that's what most sites do for members meeting up.

i have string cleaner and guitar body polish and fretboard oil. i use them sometimes but not as a habit. i change strings regularly tho so it's not a big issue i suppose

nice.

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