SUMMER 2002 ISSUE

(Vol.V - No.5 - July 10, 2002)

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BECOMING A PRODUCTION SPECIALIST
By Bob Dennis

The producer skills necessary to get a hit record are many, and not easy to fully learn.  Thinking like a recording artist, a songwriter, a musician or even a recording engineer is not thinking like a producer.  You could say the producer thinks more like a recording artist, a songwriter, a musician and a recording engineer - all simultaneously - plus manages to do it as an outside observe's viewpoint.

developing artist productions article

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Summer Production School - 43 Articles!

 

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Complete Summer School Course:  

"RID Online Music Production School"

by developing artist production staff

43 articles covering the gamut of  techniques and procedures you need to produce and test market a music production. 

THE HOME RECORDING PRIMER - Prt 1   

Learn how to adjust your basement, choose and place microphones to avoid the dreaded "basement sound."

THE HOME RECORDING PRIMER - Prt 2 

The basics of using the control room, including monitoring, routing the console, and using the tape machine

RECORDING AND MIXING DRUMS

If you are doing a rock or jazz production, you will need this primer - all about the recording and mixing of live drums.

DYNAMICS PROCESSING PRIMER

Dynamic processing is one of the most effective tools to make sure all parts will actually be heard in the mix.

EQUALIZATION PRIMER

Equalization is probably the most used processing tool in mixing.  Learn how to unlease its power in your mix.

RECORD PROMOTION & MARKETING PRIMER FOR YOUR FIRST RELEASE   

All industries test market their product before releasing the product to national sales outlets.  Music is no different - here is how it is done.

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Summer Production School - 43 Articles!

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New Primer Article: "A Vocal Recording Primer" by Bob Dennis.  One of the areas that suffer the most on a low-budget project is recorded vocal performance quality.  This primer article and its five related tip articles are designed to help you attain better production results in this critical area. 

Updated Key Article: "Right Steps On The Road To A Hit" by Tom Gelardi, Where are you on the road to a hit?  What's the next step you need to do?  Tom updates his primer article for today's situation.

PROJECT RECORDING FEATURES 

COMPUTER MAINTENANCE
by Ken Lanyon

With the direction that home recording is going today, it is very necessary to know something about computer maintenance.  I realized recently that I do a lot of computer maintenance both before and after the session to keep the session and the computer running smoothly and decided to share some of these steps with you all in this article.   

PROJECT RECORDING FEATURES?

"Home Recording Features" have been renamed Project Recording Features to reflect the professional recording done today in home project studios. .

MICHIGAN MUSIC  FEATURES

IN TUNE WITH KEVIN MEISEL
Article & Photos By PT Quinn

Dedicated to expressing oneself with music is what it's all about, and Kevin is a good example of a musician dedicated to his music, and an important part of Michigan Music.

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LITTLE MILTON SPEAKS
Interview & Photos By PT Quinn

Winner of two 2002 WC Handy awards in Memphis for Best Soul and Blues Artist and Best Soul and Blues Record for Feel - Little Milton as an entertainer is keeping alive a style of Blues he and his ilk helped invent-making his mark over earlier legendary labels like Chess and Stax.

THE CONNECTION

GETTING STARTED IN A RECORDING CAREER 

A STAKE IN THE HEART - CRITICISM AND HOW TO TAKE IT  By Tom Lyle
wrote about a topic of extreme importance to anyone trying to get into any field. Now, it’s not like I’m an expert. I’m still learning how to deal with this devil, but I thought that I could share some of my “wisdom” with you all about CRITICISM -- how to take it and how to deal with it.
RECORDING JOB CONNECTION NEWS
www.recordingjobsconnection.com is providing registered users with studio e-mail lists.  How do you become a user?  You submit your recording job or intern request at the site (for free).

INTERNET BABY STEP TRAINING

INTERNET BABY STEPSTM

By Shawn-e Brown
A series of tutorials for those that are functionally limited with computers and the Internet.  Now with a dedicated Website.  If you are new to browsing, check out our lessons.
Lessons 18-20 are the steps for you to post your own AOL website.

Lesson 17: Identifying Extensions and Viewing Files- Learn how to open files that don't have a program to open them on your computer

Lesson 18: Uploading Files for your AOL Home Page: - AOL offers its members free file space, for things you might want to put on your home page.  This lesson will take you through the steps of uploading files (like MP3, AVI, ZIP or GED files), so users can listen to, view, or download from your home page.

Lesson 19: Creating a Simple AOL Home Page - You don't have to be a master web designer to create an AOL home page.  In 10 easy steps, you can create a simple page, using one of the 1-2-3 Publish templates.

Lesson 20: Using Easy Designer to Improve your Home Page:  Looking for a way to make your 1-2-3 Publish page look better?  Easy Designer will allow you to choose from a selection of available styles for your page or create a custom style of your own.  In this lesson, you will lay out the text frames, format text, add a link to the file uploaded in lesson 18, and make any corrections, if necessary.

BABY STEP TOPIC INDEX - Access previous lessons - the complete list is here.

MOTOWN RECORDING HERITAGE PART 3 - Revisited

OUR MOTOWN RECORDING HERITAGE  - Part 3

THE 24 HOUR RELEASE
By Bob Dennis

Deceit, raiding and underhanded business practices would be the words used by the black labels.  I'm sure CBS would describe it differently.  I think, however,  the proof lies with the result.

RECORDING MAGAZINE READER'S TIP OF THE MONTH

Recording Magazine Reader's July, 2002 Tip

Reverberation Effects - In the July, 2002 Issue of Recording Magazine , Lionel Dumond, in his Recording Basics series, goes into reverberation effects and how the different parameters effect the reverb sound.  It's really an excellent article. To augment & reinforce this article, we have reposted three basic articles of reverberation from my Text, How Recording Works - Book 2.   

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