Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Digital recording magic – make professional sounding music at home on your computer!

Digital recording magic – make professional sounding music at home on your computer!




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i’m a musician at heart, through and through, but my real job for years was as a software engineer, and i’ve worked for some big fortune 500 companies, including microsoft. But that was after i’d worked the club circuits for a lot of years in my teens and twenties.


those days were before you could just plug into a computer and record music to get a decent recording of one song, you’d either have to invest in a ton of analog tape recording and mixing equipment, or invest a small fortune in studio time by the hour.


take your pick as a working musician, you had to make a choice between eating and recording, unless you had a backer. Let’s just say that i did put out some nice tracks in those days, but i ate a lot of peanut butter sandwiches, too.


i own a website where i provide music production services for the public, mainly mastering and mixing online, but i’ve also done a ton of productions from the ground up including a number of cd releases that i produced personally . Over my years helping people with their music, i’ve heard it all from world-class artists bringing me expensive mixes that knocked my socks off, and are a complete pleasure to master, and go on to become hits to school kids, recording rap songs about their girlfriends in their bedrooms, with a $10 cassette deck and a tiny plastic microphone, hoping that i’ll master their joint till it’s ready to compete with the high-end rappers’ releases of today. In this industry it’s all about pr…read more detail



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