The title of this blog takes a small liberty. I am going to commit all of the beatdown. You, the reader just get to play along and, perhaps, add a pithy comment after you have absorbed my mystical wisdom. I have been threatening for over a month now to take one or two of the submitted demos and critique them publically. Now I will make good on that threat. Tonight’s blog will be about a demo from the band Spiral Jetty Club. The next blog will cover a demo from Oliver of Melbourne Australia. I belive that is on the other side of the earth from New york. Since I haven’t visited Melbourne there is a good chance, as far as I am concerned, that it is mythical, like nirvana. Oliver may be some kind of Unicorn/hobbit creature for all I know. Well, in the world of how to succeed at rock even hobbit/troll/fairy bands need to make great demos so OLiver is gonna get his nosebleed next week. This week, as I have just said, the honors go to Spiral Jetty Club.
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Demos and the fine art of getting it down on tape………
About a month ago I ran a posting asking people to send in their demos. As I mentioned in that posting the idea was for me to criticize the demos in an effort to teach you, the reader, something about songwriting and recording. I got quite few submissions and, in general, there was some good [...]
What’s so great about a recording contract?
In the post web world the labels no longer hold all the cards nor do they control the keys to fame. The only traditional system that the labels still control is commercial radio. There is even light at the end of that tunnel since radio is in a confused desperate period. They have no idea what to program and the cracks have appeared under their feet – satellite radio, web radio, podcasts and many more trends have begun to destabilize commercial radio. So the last of the Major label strangleholds is on the way out. Where does this leave the record labels?
Enslave the digital dwarfs!Lubricate your livingroom and compress your head!
So this is a blog in the continuing series covering recording techniques, gear, attitude, strange events in the studio etc. The last blog was a run down of a track explaining how it was recorded. Tonight I think I will continue on talking about different pieces of electronics in the studio and how they are used to create pro sounding tracks.
Since I have covered microphones extensively I will tackle the next step in the chain, the microphone preamplifier, commonly called the mic pre. The Mic Pre is an extremely important piece of the puzzle.
