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The producer’s 12 Essential Web Resources Print E-mail
Added By: Ike Barnes

These are 12 resources that every producer should have in their toolkit. These aren’t the only resources that producers need. These are just sites we believe do a good job at giving the information that a producer would want to see. If your resources aren’t listed let us know which sites you use.


 
The Master Fader is Not for Monitor Control! Print E-mail
Added By: Erik Hawkins
The stereo master fader in your DAW’s virtual mixer is not for controlling the output level of your studio speakers. This is an all-too-common mistake, but an easy one to make. I mean, it does turn down your speaker level, right? Yes, but think about what’s happening to your mix down level, the waveforms that you’re printing to disk. If your master fader is turned way down in order to keep your speakers low, and your neighbors oblivious to your beats, the mix you’re printing to disk is also going to be low in volume. We’re talking itsy-bitsy waveforms here, a potentially bad signal to noise ratio, and just a plain old poorly executed recording, It’s this exact result that most often leads the inexperienced producer to the puzzling question, “Why the heck are my mixes so low in volume?” (And, incidentally, gain normalization is not the remedy here, because in normalizing a very low waveform you’re also turning the recording’s background noise way up.)

 
5 Ways to Ruin Your Career as a Rapper Print E-mail
Added By: D Holland
All The Time I see aspiring rappers on myspace and forums who are just bewildered that they are not the most famous rapper of all time. They are the guys who have 800 friends on their myspace but only 30 listens to their best song. They are the guys who go to any hip hop forum they can find and say \" Am I a good rapper?\"

 
Jett Black Discusses How To Market Your Music Print E-mail
Added By: D Holland
Jett Black from CDbaby sheds some light on getting your name to the masses. Think global. Act local.

 
Music Industry Profile: Jimmy Iovine of Interscope Records Print E-mail
Added By: Youngman
Jimmy Iovine is Chairman of Interscope/Geffen/A&M Records, a label group in the Universal Music Group family. Originally a producer and engineer, Iovine had a hand in creating some of the most enduring albums of the 1980s, working with artists like Bruce Springsteen, U2, Meatloaf, Tom Petty, Patti Smith and Stevie Nicks. As the founder of Interscope Records, one of the most successful independent labels of the 1990s, Iovine made his permanent mark on pop music with hits by No Doubt, Limp Bizkit, Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch and Nine Inch Nails (among others), and by partnering with Death Row Records to release influential albums by artists like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. and others. After parlaying his success with Interscope into an executive position with UMG, Iovine has continued to produce hits by artists as diverse as Feist, Eminem and 50 Cent, and the Pussycat Dolls.

 
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