Recent content by smy1

Quickly wanted to touch on that: If you do any of that, make sure you get points/buy-out money/what-have-you from that band. The music business is littered with stories where the band later completely forgot that knowledgeable-producer-X helped them out big time - and he was quickly replaced by...

One of the fundamental mistakes that everyone makes is to think that gatekeepers (magazines/recordlabels/etc) are no longer necessary, while they have actually become more necessary because the amount of bands that exist is so much higher than it used to be. So what's a listener gonna do? Go...

I've said it many times: conventional wisdom is basically ... conventional. It doesn't work for any of the self-releasing artists. What does work (but needs money is): 1) buy ads in the biggest genre mags in your country or the countries where your style of music is biggest 2) get...

You double track the bass?

I'm not in the market for this product, but I really don't know why $100 for any educational product is considered expensive. I've paid over $2000 for a single seminar (not audio-related) and it was worth the money 7 times over (I made a little over 14k in a year after implementing strategies I...

The fact that he'd be considered rather right-wing in Germany has always amused me. The "communist, socialist, left-wing revolutionist nutjobs" in the US would be considered "conservative, overly religious, right-wing nutjobs" over here :)

I agree with Pedro. With the current post-count there really is no way anyone gets confused by anything here :D

SocialNumb is right. In musical styles where the kick actually rings out, it usually influences the tonality and bass/kick clash when the kick is tuned "off". In electro I always tune my kicks to the song or the song to the kick, depending on what is the important element. It makes A LOT of...

Burny: "better than Fidelman's work" is really no standard of quality. Anyone can do better than that. :D

I have a set of older AKG in my studio and they can't hold a candle to the Bose QC-15. The middle of the line Beats I had were different but not better or far worse than the AKG. More bass-hyped, less clear. Whatever you make of that. I haven't checked out the Audio Technica studio headphones...

Not convinced at all. The song is okay-ish, production sounds like mbox pre-pro in a rehearsal room.

I totally understand not wanting local support in your backstage if there are no separate rooms. But paying for getting back into the venue is ridiculous. These kinds of things usually happen when the promoter paid too much in guarantees and is trying to squeeze every possible dollar out of...

Just do what Jeff said but ONLY at an HOURLY rate!! You'll hate your life if you don't ...

Good on all ya'll! Congrats for the progress! Interesting how perception is different for everyone. I am, 6'1 and around 225-230lbs at maybe 16-18% bodyfat. And while some of you think they are skinny, I feel rather in the "medium-small" category with dudes around here. I went down from 240 at...

I call a bit of bullshit on the fact that anyone other than pro-producers actually noticed the mix back when the album came out. Another question would be who even was old enough to listen to it in 1988? Cause comparing it to Korn albums 10-15 years later, of course it has no bass. These days...