In an age where digital platforms dominate music discovery, many artists overlook a powerful and consistent income stream — licensing music for use in commercial spaces.
How to Prepare Your Tracks for Mastering
Preparing your tracks properly before sending them for mastering is a crucial step that often gets overlooked.
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Control 24 Power Supply Repair
Repairing a power supply can seem daunting, but it's a valuable skill for any studio tech, especially for those working wi
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ALL ATX is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit benefiting HAAM, Sims Foundation, Black Fret and Austin Music Foundation and for their fourth annual benefit concert/live CD they themed it "Austin Rocks The Blues." Je
Recently, I had a client that ran into some problems with the cover art for their project. It seems iTunes has some rather stringent (in my opinion) requirements for the cover art. Part of me understands that there needs to be some requirements or checks in place and I agree with Apple that people should not be 'misleading' in the representation of their music. But, I felt this particular case may have been a bit ridiculous.
Sound Exchange and The Recording Academy have partnered in advocating for legislation and educating the community about performance rights.
Introduced March 19, 2015 the Allocation for Music Producers Act or AMP Act (H.R. 1457) says this:
This week, the authors of The Indie Band Survuval Guide, Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan, spoke at the Grammy Pro Business Summit in Austin. They gave an information-dense presentation of basically everything a band trying to make money needs to know.
OwnCloud is a file sharing platform like DropBox or similar services. They have paid enterprise solutions and free open source offerings. Go to https://owncloud.org/ to learn more about the open source choices. They let you install the system on your own server giving you complete and total control over the files. This is especially good if security is a concern or privacy is needed. I was exploring this solution for a file sharing solution that I didn't have to
Martin Theophilus profiled Terra Nova mastering for the Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording. Jerry and I were happy to talk about analog recorders.
Published on Apr 27, 2015
ID3 tags are where metadata with most MP3 files is stored. It isn't really a standard because different people/companies made contributions, but because of its wide use almost every program that plays or creates MP3 files can read this metadata. There is so much information you can put in these files but almost noone uses most of the fields. You can embedd album covers, booklet pages, titles, artists, genre, ISRC, UPC, website links, and the list goes on. Oh...
I have exciting news this week! The Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is released this week. The movie premiered last week and I saw it yesterday. After reading mixed reviews, I wasn't sure what to expect, but I though it was ok.
So, I went to Viva Big Bend music festival in West Texas last weekend. I went out to attend a Grammy networking event we were hosting during the festiva. This is the third year that there has been a "Meet the Grammys" networking event. I took the opportunity to take the trip to the beautiful Big Bend area and I also took some pictures. Here are a few of them.
First, lets start with what 'two-factor authentication' is. It involves two steps to logging in. With one step, you just needed your username and password. You entered the info and you're logged in; this is one step. In two-factor authenticataion (or two-step authentication) uses more than just your username and password. For example, one of the first two-step authentication methods I came across was with my Discover Card account.