Meet the newest addition to my mic locker – the UAD/Townsend Labs Sphere L22 modeling mic. It looks striking and sexy with its glowing blue color. There are actually two microphone capsules (front and rear) in one housing, and they both are used to create the mic simulation. In practice for recording vocals, we would …
Sonobus Remote Sessions
Ever since the pandemic, I have been trying different ways to work together remotely with you. The video chats work well for video but lack the features for good quality audio. Zoom, Webex, Facetime, Skype, Jitsi Meet – they all suffer being limited to mono audio, and an audio frequency range that is more suited …
Recording Guitar to a Track with a Single Mobile Device
Stop calling it a phone. It’s so much more. Our mobile devices have become our still cameras, our video cameras, our encyclopedias, our newspapers, our magazines, and our audio recorders. The microphones that are built into our mobile devices are capable of recording the entire human frequency spectrum. Just look at the specs for the …
Mobile Recording
As you know, during this time of uncertainty I have requested that my clients work with me remotely. One of the biggest challenges is getting a near studio quality vocal recording from home. I have just put together a short video with tips on how to do it. Follow this link for my brief YouTube …
Lawyers for the Arts
From time to time we are presented with legal documents that we need to carefully review and sign or negotiate. If you need legal assistance but don’t have the funds to hire an attorney, there is help available to you. One of the oldest organizations is the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, based in …
Songland
The new series Songland premiered on NBC May 28, 2019. It has been in the works for four years now and it looks like they’ve got the format ironed out. It’s sort of like The Voice, only for songwriters. Currently the celebrity panel is made up of three well known and successful songwriter/producer/artists – Ryan …
The New Retitle Publishing Approach
A friend and cowriter of mine recently sent me a link to a site that was interested in pitching our song for film and television. All well and good. But this proposition had a twist: They would give our song a new title They would have ownership rights to the retitled version We would keep …
WHERE’S MY MONEY?
Let’s talk money. All forms of income from music stem from the protection offered by the existing copyright laws. The monies that are generated by a song’s copyright are usually split evenly between the writer(s) and the publisher(s). If you are the sole writer of a song and haven’t signed an agreement with a music …
A Lyric Writing Approach to Consider
The three cornerstones of good songwriting are: The purpose of a song is to convey an emotion Lyrically a song is about one moment in time from an emotional point of view Musically a song is a balance of repetition and surprise This post digs a little deeper into the lyric writing aspect. I am …
Breaking Down The Dividing Line
I’ve stated before that I think the key to effective live performance is to break down the barrier between who’s the performer and who’s the audience. I give the example of my friend, Skip Folse, who performed at a club here in Atlanta. At one part of the evening he would start the “naked conga …