Warming Up Your Digital Mixes
So you’ve just recorded and mixed your latest song digitally in Logic or ProTools, and gotten every little detail just the way you want it. But something, you decide, is… Read More →
DIY: Echoes of the Echoplex
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- Tags: brian may, delay effect, delay pedal, DIY, DIY recording, echo, echo effect, echoplex, EP-1, EP-2, EP-3, EP-4, giant music, gibson SG, gregg allman, home recording, indie, indie artist, indie music, jimmy page, joe walsh, maestro, maestro echoplex, neil young, tape, tape-based delay, the echoplex, yamaha •
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBK4utC1QbQ”
In 1982, I bought a used Maestro Echoplex, old and worn and scarcely functional, at a little music shop in Fairfax, Virginia. The store carried as much used stuff as… Read More →
Album & Audience: Q&A with Kowtow Popof
- Categories: Art and creativity, DIY, Identity, Life of the troubadour, Q&A •
- Tags: album, audience, brothers quay, cat stevens, coaster, devaulation of content, exalted headband, harry nilsson, indie, indie artist, indie music, infinite suns, kowtow popof, live show, music video, scandanavian jazz, single, song, songwriter, splinters & threads, steel panther, tastes like armageddon, the beatles, twilight zone, wampus •
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xaAhkN68u8″
As a contemporary songwriter, are you focused on making albums? Or just singles? Or are you emphasizing your live show, where you can reach your audience more regularly, with greater immediacy?… Read More →
An Effective Artist Website in 5 Steps
- Categories: Art and creativity, DIY, Interwebs, Music business •
- Tags: aesthetics, art, artist, author, behavior, brand, differentiation, dimensional, effective websites, identity, indie, indie artist, indie music, message, motivation, originality, psychology, recording artist, representation, vision, wampus, web design, website, website construction, writer •
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If you’re a recording artist or author, what do you see as the purpose of your website? To educate? To inform? To advertise? Think again. While your site might do… Read More →
DIY: The Mighty Tascam 388
- Categories: Art and creativity, DIY, Self-referential •
- Tags: ADAT, alice despard, arms of kismet, DAW, DIY, east river pipe, f.m. cornog, fostex x-15, home recording, indie, indie artist, indie music, j. scott watson, kowtow popof, mark doyon, songwriting, studio recording, tascam 246 portastudio, tascam 388 studio 8, the black keys, the intentions, wampeters, wampus, wampus sound studio •
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The first recording band I was in made albums on an all-in-one portable studio with eight tracks of audio on 1/4-inch, analog tape. Having cut my teeth until then on… Read More →