If the material is dear to you. Perhaps consider getting a quote from James Perrett (of this forum) https://www.jrpmusic.co.uk/ to undertake the work.

EDIT: just spotted Kwackman thought the same thing as me

All of the comments about the intro being too long don't take account of where this composition will be sequenced in an album journey.

Niche genres don't have to be 100% Spotify friendly!

OP maybe consider releasing some 2 to 4 track EPs before an album.

Good luck ^_^

Look for guys who are working from studios and working for established artists eg: https://www.hackney-road.com/engineers-hr I'm always very happy to recommend Shuta. Provide as much info about track count, length etc and provide a current rough mix (if possible) in your opening email. So they can g...

Sorry to hear that you're struggling with your room. There's plenty of good advice in this thread, so here's an alternate perspective: Do you primarily consider yourself a artist (musician / songwriter / composer / band member) OR a mix engineer? If you consider yourself to be an artist rather than ...

Buy new and from SCAN, I'd advocate against a laptop. A desktop or rack system will last longer (maybe a decade with a few repairs along the way):

https://www.scan.co.uk/shop/music-and-p ... ystems/all

Hang on for a couple of months and push the budget a little if you can.

First thing I'd do is get your client round and find out what they mean by:

ITHertz wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:27 am the mix is a bit muddy.

I reckon CAD M179s are good mics. Been on my radar after reading last year Hugh's review from over 2decades earlier. Long radar! I came across them when I worked for an engineer who has won a few BAFTAs. He always used a couple of CAD M179s for recording foley and often strategically set a one or t...

Somebody will shoot me for this, but I reckon CAD M179s are good mics.

ManFromGlass wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:06 pm It needs to be a plugin as sometimes I need the drum to ring off. I figure I just automate the On/Off of the plug in Logic and viola violin!

Have you tried Logic's Enveloper?

The Red Bladder wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:30 pm

R_A wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:45 pm200 employees!

That's just €100,000 turnover per employee!

Yes exactly!

A few rock-stars in tech can do the work of 100s of perfectly able men and women. It's shocking how much more useful the very top performers are.

200 employees!

Does anyone know how many employees Cockos Incorporated has?

I've ordered Mike Senior's highly recommended book on mixing, and I wondered if anyone new of a similar 'start' resource around arranging? Russell Garcia's The Professional Arranger Composer - Book 1 might be what you are looking for. Though I'm not sure without more knowlege of what you are trying...

amanise wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:18 pm
You can't be blowing that Superbowl half time gig for a tickly cough!

Ha indeed! I hope your voice is on the mend.

It struck me that were it a contracted project - or other such pro thing, a simple winter bug would just stop things in their tracks completely for as long as it took for someone's voice to return to normal. Disastrous! Any singers out there who this sort of thing has actually happened to? I'm curi...

ajay_m wrote: But of course you can emulate the tenori-on quite easily on a tablet and there are several apps available that do this.

I've never tried iPad or mobile phone music making - I'm now very curious about this Yamaha app.

DGL. wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 2:38 pmLooks interesting and it's been a while since wee seen something like this from Yamaha, the Tenori-on being the last product like this from them.

Do you think the Tenori-on would be commercially successful if Yamaha re-released it?

I reckon you'd like the Roland Gaia. Lots of knobs and faders. The white version can be had for about 300 to 350 pounds in the UK.

The Novation is very nice, however it's not easy to program from the front panel (the software editor is excellent).

This urge to make music and compose new tunes. I's always been going on in my head ever since I can remember anything. If I don't do something about it periodically, it all mounts up and I start going a bit bonkers. No the compulsion just seems to get worse and worse. ...what's your coping strategy...

For the videos, I'm using a theme of space travel, the gritty realistic near future kind where things take a long time and are messy, and people learn about themselves and humanity along the way. I was inspired by Com Truise. He writes a story first, then composes the music as if it was for a film ...

I do not think that you are mad. Madness would be to keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result. I currently think the best solution for digital releases is having a single distributor, who's ethos aligns with your own. For instance, my last album was only sold digitally by Cafe Oto:...