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.
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Dear Music Community,
Please be sure to inform your colleagues whose livelihoods have been affected by the fires, to reach out to MusiCares, our non-profit entity of The Recording Academy. MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need.
MusiCares South Region 615.327.0050
Open House Friday, September 9th at 7p with Nick Landis
Our guest speaker this month is Nick Landis, Mastering Engineer at Terra Nova Mastering.
To start off the social, NIck will describe his experience of the music industry, and what it takes to stay successful.
Register to attend at the Recording Conservatory of Austin website.
Jitter is a time-based signal error. Often misunderstood, this problem can range from subtle and nearly inaudible to loud and distracting. Jitter can reduce low-level resolution (add noise) and add distortion.
In the past few months, we've had several requests for masters to be sent over the internet to the manufacturing plant. DDP is the perfect format for this. Many plants will give you FTP information to send the DDP master to their facility or a login to a webpage that you can upload the file. I like this trend and recommend this for clients that have chosen replicators that accept DDP masters.
In my years as a music publisher I’ve had the honor of working with hit-songwriters to beginning songwriters, singer-songwriters and musician-songwriters. Many of them have shared with me their journey and stories of dealing with music publishers, recording artists, record label executives, and their statements of mis-information and even worse. . . stories of unpaid royalties.
Today is my 6th Anniversary of being hired full-time at Terra Nova Mastering. As chance would have it, it’s also the birthday of a convenience store with a particularly famous (free on this day) frozen refreshment. I stopped in on my way home from work and treated myself to the drink. It always reminds me of middle school bike rides home from school. . .
We just pressed our first CDs that feature a QR code on the packaging. When the artist, songwriter Tonya Tyner, handed in her artwork, I didn't even know what the black and white square on the back of the digipak was. Now it seems like I am seeing them everywhere. When she told me that it was readable by smart phones and that you could have it link to a variety of functions, I thought it sounded like a great idea.