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Author: Daniel Medeiros
By Daniel Medeiros…
The life of a professional musician has all the allure of a million dollars and a one-way ticket to being famous. Is it worth it? Heck, yes! But the only way to becoming a professional musician (and by “musician,” we mean singers and bands, not professional flautists) is to land a record deal. Whether you’re aiming for a mainstream or an indie share of the pie, you need that label to get heard.
Wait, but it’s tough to get signed to a label, right? True. And while there are many changes happening in the music industry right now (especially on the technological side), there is still no better way to make money as a musician than by having an established record label market your music. So how do you sell your soul to the corporate devil? It’s rather tricky, but we’ll walk you through the steps. (And don’t worry, it won’t involve an evening with RIAA President Hilary Rosen, a bottle of tequila, and a Barry White album.)
Unless you’re the next Beatles, there are a thousand other bands like you – so make yourself stand out from the rest by being professional from the beginning…No one will want to sign you unless you’re going to make them money. As such, you and your band must be confident, experienced, dedicated, and have it together (in other words, you must look like you will bring in money).
I have the assumption that you do not have a manager and that you are trying to get signed on your own. If you do have a manager, let the poor guy or gal do his/her job and you just stay out of the way. Otherwise, you need us bad.
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About the Author:
DM is an excellent allround world jazz guitarist ,fulltime studio musician,project leader,show case session host and a full time concert touring artist in the music business and entertainment projects…As an unsigned and independent artist he’d released various CD compilations on his name such as “remix & pickups”,”Spreads”,”MindCure” which contain not only his own original work material but as well influences of other world artists he likes,played with or scouted…he works always within legal contracts,uses discipline passion and fun in his own work…works with different people but only the finest…He is an improviser who uses talent and virtuosity combined with technic..Travels for his own work,composes,arranges and believes in nature…He is a capricorn by birth and on earth that’s what he believes!…He is a child of the world a world cosmopolitan someone with an interesting character to know, a friendly guy always ready to help others in any circumstance of life but depends what and who!… Somebody experience courageous ambitious, warm,with a dream…A hard worker,direct to the point but always respecting the meaning of others…Somebody who’s not to be taken for granted & who’s never afraid to speak languages or to be mixed in different worldwide cultures socially and musically.
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The technology to record music has become very easy to access and use. Years ago you needed to know someone who had a studio, fancy multi-track tape recorder, and expensive microphones to produce a record or CD. Now one can produce their own album with equipment just under $1000. The issue here is that since the software and recorders available can handle so many tracks, we can get easily carried away with the number of tracks and microphones in our recordings.
When recording first started almost 100 years ago, things were very simple. In fact, most studios did all recording with one microphone in the center of the room and the artists would be distanced from the microphone to produce the spacial feeling wanted. Take it, this was also in the days of mono recordings. As years past, recorders got better and the technology improved, but the accessibility still required knowing people. As recording matured, the ability to record and overdub on multiple tracks came into the forefront. With more tracks available, we are enticed to add more and more inputs. However, sometimes the best recordings are still accomplished with just the basics.
Whether it be a choral concert, instrumental concert, or band, we have the ability to over-mic. Some like to put a microphone on everything and others feel they can get the same result using 2 microphones in the room. What can be ironic is that some recordings done with two microphones end up sounding better than a recording with a whole cabinet full of microphones setup.
So, the next time you have a great song idea or a concert that should be recorded, remember to keep it simple and let the music be the focus, not the recording.
Music along with art have to be appreciated first hand. Second hand exposure does not affect the human psyche as great as physically being there to experience it first hand. There is something about live music and performance that is different than seeing or hearing from a recording. Without getting into the technicalities of audio recording, there is more sound being created in a live environment than any other medium. Although, it’s not the greatest example to use, but it’s the most accustomed to, the feeling of being at a rock concert is different than being in your car listening to the concert from a CD or digital music player. The concert makes you feel alive. It just does something to you as a person. The same goes for attending a classical performance in a performing arts concert hall.
Since we can’t all go to the concert venue every day, we rely on the great invention of Thomas Edison, the sound recording. Sound recordings allow us to experience music over and over again from wherever we are, the only difference is we don’t have that “Live” experience. Recordings are second generation from the original. One looses the physical experience of being there and having the sound envelop them. Yes, a recording done of a live concert has more of the interactive feel since it was based on the interaction of the audience with the performers, but the feeling is no longer there. Studio recordings are different as they are “manufactured” by the assistance of people and equipment in sterile environments.
Lately, with digital music players, there is something even more important lost and that is sound quality. If we were to listen to a live concert, then a recording, followed by a compressed digital version of the same recording, we would begin to notice differences. Sound is lost in the transfer from one to the other. The recording of the live concert was the greatest, the live recording is almost like being there as only a little was lost sound wise, but the third, if we really trained our ears to listen, would certainly teach us a lesson about compromising quality.
Even though records were replaced by CDs for the pureness, there was something about a record in terms of sound quality that outperformed digital. Records had the ability to reproduce a fuller reproduction of the original sound. Therefore, the listening experience was closer to the real thing and making a tape copy was a close second for similar reasons.
Regardless of media, there is one thing that has been lost in the compromise of sound quality and that is that there are less audiophiles (people who are fanatic about sound). Most of us have come to accept less than great, thus affecting our music appreciation of live music.