A Mastering Engineer’s Guide to Final Mixdown
Choose a reference. Find a major label track with the tonal balance you’re looking for – ideally something that hasn’t been totally decimated in mastering, since you’ll be comparing it to your unmastered tracks. If you followed my earlier advice on using a reference during the mixing process, you’ll want to use the same track here. […]
Merch Inspiration: Here! Sod- Air Asia Tee
Here! Sod and Prompt Design made aircraft-like T-Shirt packaging which its surprisingly ‘red wings’ that actually is a cloth hanger makes outstanding identity to Air Asia. This fresh idea of Here! Sod T-Shirt had won Gold Award from Pentawards. From fresh idea of Here! Sod brand, introducing T-Shirt that makes fame from different angles by […]
Indie Musicians: It’s normal to take awhile. Just Fight your way through
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, […]
Musician Advice: The Importance of ‘Thank You’
If there is one thing that musicians and artists should know, it’s that “getting there” takes a long while. It’s not just because of your talent or your skills that will make you a success- it’s also because of the hard work of a thousand people. Some lent you their instruments, some offered their homes, […]
5 Music Promotion Tips For Increasing Album Sales on Your Website
1. Let Them Hear It Music is a unique product in that it is not usually purchased without first being heard. This is why radio has always been such a great marketing method for music. First you get hooked by a catchy tune, then you can’t help but buy it. For this reason, it’s important […]
Album Art Concepts: PUPPETS
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5 Steps to Greenlight Your Indie Film
Since I recently completed my first indie film, The Great Intervention, I thought I would begin by giving you some “quick” and “simple” steps for you to “greenlight” your own project. 1. Come up with your idea. Okay, this is the only part of the process I cannot specifically help you with (at least not in […]
DVD Packaging: Band of Brothers Military Kit
Music Advice: Brand Your Band!
Madonna, Radiohead, Lady Gaga, OK Go, Kanye West, David Byrne…sure they have great talent but I am 100% sure that there are other people in the world who can sing like they do and even better. I mean yeah…they all have good voices but they’re rather easy to imitate compared to those with ultra great […]
Radiohead’s Deluxe Edition “Newspaper Album” Revealed
Radiohead will release a deluxe edition “Newspaper Album” (not The Universal Sigh) for their latest album, The King of Limbs. It is scheduled to come out on May 9. According to the King of Limbs website, the “newspaper album” contains “two clear 10″ vinyl records in a purpose-built record sleeve,” a digital download, a compact disc, many […]