Music Recording Software Revisited
A musicians life isn’t easy. We know it’s take or break, no middle ground, only win or lose. That is if you don’t want to end up as a music teacher (ok, ok, ok, nothing wrong with teaching)! Technology has of course made the process a whole lot easier for us, with music recording software cheaply and readily available. Computers and peripherals are also affordable. So that should mean that life is easier? Well, the problem is that it is easier for just about every other musician out there as well. The Internet has made publishing music a breeze, but now we have to wade through all the crappy teenagers that haven’t put a finger down to master their instrument.
I might be complaining and preaching to the choir, but when was the last time something of quality hit the main stream? I remember the old days when bands like Faith no more, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in chains, and Soundgarden ruled the earth. You can say what you want about their styles, but you can’t knock off their talent for writing music.
This was supposed to be an article about music recording software but has turned in to a rant. But old musicians should have the opportunity to rant now and then, because there aren’t that many other pleasures we get.
At this moment I am listening to a band that I had great hope for. I have been a fan for a long time, and also seen them live. The band is Mew, and they are from Scandinavia, more specifically Denmark. Their two first albums were magnificent, in spite of having a good deal of filler songs that were basically crap. But the good songs were really masterpieces! Their new album, No More Stories Are Told Today however, is total crap. It sounds like they have found a love for playing music backwards and have tried to emulate this on their album. A shame to music recording software if I must say so! With all the potential this band has it sounds like they got lost trying to reinvent themselves…
I have to continue rambling and talk about another catastrophic album that was released in 2009. Muse, a band I held in high regards, and still do, released The Resistance. Origin of Symmetry is one of my top 10 albums, but their new 11 track is a compilation of the worst of the worst. For starters, there isn’t a song on the album that I can’t sing to a well known musical or Queen song. But the worst is their lame Baywatch rip off. Listen to Resistance side by side the Baywatch opening melody. How can you be inspired by Baywatch…please tell me. And then go on to a full fledged musical? Are we digging a hole? Are we out of control? Yes, we certainly are
Yeah, I am in conspiracy mode, but on this album it really sounds like Matthew Bellamy listened a lot to his favorite Queen (We are the champions = United States of Eurasia), Chess/Abba (Anthem = Guiding Light), Baywatch (Resistance), Here Comes the Rain Again/Eurythmics (Undisclosed Desires).
Let me be clear on this, so I don’t get sued by a high paid lawyer: These are my opinions, I am not claiming anyone sucks for a fact, have copied anyone else’s music, or done anything else wrong. I am just saying that bands that have a certain amount of success almost always go ahead and produce crappy albums to follow. My opinion, as mentioned.
So I guess the moral of the story is that we unsuccessful musicians are actually the people best equipped to produce the best music. If you are pressed in to a corner, dirt broke, and living out of your mother’s basement, you will probably put a lot more effort in to your music. That is exactly why bands like Mew, Muse, Metallica, even Faith no more, have gone from making masterpieces to making terrible music that shouldn’t be published at all. It just shows that all the world music recording software, most expensive music recording studios and equipment, won’t help you if the motivation and TIME to develop you music from a basic riff in to an epic symphony isn’t there.
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Music recording schools
You will be spoilt for choice with the number of courses offered by music recording schools and so many universities around the world. With increasing productions of movies, albums, concerts and a variety of other events, which are impossible without quality music recording, you can imagine the career scope music recording has to offer. Your choice of a school should depend on the curriculum, training, equipment and duration of course. Pursuing a stream of music engineering that interests you most will benefit you in the long-run. Read more
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Musicians choice
I have always had a passion for music ever since my dad took me to his music recording studio when I was 5 or 6 years old. Already then I knew I wanted to become a professional musician like my dad was aiming to become. This was way back when music recording software hadn’t even been dreamed about, his studio shining with large analog metal gadgets. He had his own studio and band and was himself a singer songwriter. To be honest, he never became a professional musician, other than perhaps selling (or giving away, who knows) 10-20 copies of his bands album to family and friends. Shortly after the album was made he had a break through in unrelated business and never played music again. No platinum or gold, no musicians choice awards, he left music all together. Read more
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Music copyrights
When I was first starting out as a local musician, I never thought that it was important to copyright my music. I always assumed that music copyrights were for the big, corporate artists who had signed to major labels. Why would someone small like me require a music copyright? If anything, I wanted my songs to be copied and shared. I wanted people to use them in remixes, to trade them with friends, and to play them anytime they could. This is how small artists grow – by being having their music shared throughout the community. Music copyrights at best do nothing to stem this, and at worse, discourage people from copying CDs. Read more
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Music Recording Studio
If you are in a band, sing on your own, or do any type of musical expression, there may come a day when you want to go to a music recording studio to record some of your own music. This can be very satisfying for anyone who is creative and wants to share what they have written with others. This is also one of the more tricky places to go, depending on what you hope to get out of your endeavor. When you choose somewhere to go, think carefully about the price, what you are being offered, and how realistic everything is before you sign on the dotted line or pay any money up front. Read more
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Free music recording software
Professional music recording software has become very affordable these last years, with cheap computer offers flooding the market, and the software manufactures lowering their prices and adding new functions to their products. But now you can also get free music recording software, which can be more then enough for a musician on a budget.
Starting out with a free music recording software product can be a great way for a musician to get their “feet wet” to the world of hard disk recording. Learning the ins and outs, lingo, and common functionality in these programs can take some time, but it is worth it. Using free software, which doesn’t have all the bells and whistles as the expensive products, can be help you focus on what’s important. After all, you want to make music, not sit for days reading a manual. Read more
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Band promotion
Rock band promotion is one of the most difficult part of succeeding in music. Learning how to promote your band is, in some genres of music, more important than playing your instrument well. In rock music in particular, you need to seem hip and with it for people to listen to what you have to say. You need to be accessible, yet you need to somehow at the same time promote this image of an elite coolness that not everyone can have. This makes your fans feel like they are part of something special. Remember, with popular music fans, you are selling an image as much as you’re selling music. Read more
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Electronic music artist
Being an electronic music artist used to place me firmly in the Avant-garde, but nowadays more people are making electric music than ever before. From DJ’s to synthesizer geeks, Midi composers to indie rockers, playing electronic digital music is for all sorts of different people. The question is, is it for you? Read more
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Professional recordings made affordable
The advent of the computer age has made professional sounding recordings possible for everyone through the use of music recording software. In the past it was very expensive to base your recordings on computers, as the hardware requirements were just to high, which meant it was not affordable for the guy on the street. That has now changed! Read more
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