Organizing, locating and naming your audio project files is pretty straight forward. However, without being organized, it will be difficult to find, share or recall your project files quickly. This short video will explain where to store your recorded files, and different scenarios on naming them so you can forever be organized with your project […]
Author: Mike Lizotte
Copyright Myths
Music copyrighting is a tricky and often confusing subject. As we all know, flat out copying someone’s music is a no-no. It is unethical and unlawful. However, there ARE many things we can use from other people’s music without actually running in to a Copyright infringement issue. For instance, chord progressions and scales. Below is […]
Creating and using a De’esser
Often during the mixing phase, I will sneak in some extra high-end on the EQ in an effort to bring out clarity in several instruments, (including vocals). Everything will sound great on my system. Then I play the song back on ear buds, or my phone, and realize the “esss’s” and “teeee’s” are waay too […]
Microphones – How they work
Here is a cool article, complete with a video on explaining the different types of microphones and how they work. Some people use a tool and never really care how they work, but there are times when knowing exactly how the tool works, will allow you to chose the right tool for the job! Click […]
The importance of taking notes
Taking notes is a key step to improving my final productions. I don’t mean taking notes away from my ultra killer kazoo solo, I am talking about breaking out pen and paper. If you have ever listened back to your songs or mixes, you have surely encountered a “spot” (or maybe several “spots”) in […]
Making Money from your Music PT 2 – Music Libraries
This is part two of the blog series “Making money from your music”. In this post we will discuss music libraries. The first blog post in this series spoke about streaming your music over internet radio and how to submit your music to Pandora. That post can be found HERE. Based on some feedback I […]
The advantage of giving away your music for free
Giving away your music for free (or really cheap) has its benefits. This is a follow-up article to http://www.homerecordingwizard.com/make-money-music-pt-1-submitting-music-pandora/ . Most business models involve giving away selected products for free. or at a loss, to attract customers. You want to look at the long-term benefits of having customers, vs the short-term of “losing money”. Think of […]
Make money from your music PT 1 – Submitting your music to Pandora
Making money from your music is not just for the rich and famous, anyone can do it and I will show you how, in this upcoming series. In part 1 of this series we will discuss submitting your music to Pandora. A short video by Bob Owsinski at the bottom of this article will spell […]
Getting a realistic MIDI performance
As some of you may know, I also write music for media with my company M & J Music Creations LLC. Many of the projects I have worked on required realistic sounding orchestral pieces, but without the budget for a real orchestral. In these cases I turn to sample libraries for the MIDI mock ups. […]
Mixing Instrument levels and finding “the pocket”
The most important part of a mix is finding the correct balance for each instrument so they fit “in the pocket”. From my experience, for an instrument or vocal to sit correctly, it needs to have the correct volume level in the mix and frequency space in the arrangement. Every song and arrangement will have […]