I Ate Your Microphone

If you have a home studio, you want the best sound possible for your home recordings. Many musicians cannot afford half a million dollar studios with various amplifiers, compressors and digital spaceship items. You want something that’s leading edge and affordable at the same time. If you are looking for studio software, look no further that Sonic Foundry Vegas 5.0.

Sonic Foundry was brought out by the Sony Corporation. Vegas software is used in a lot of motion picture productions along with DVD releases. This is exactly what you get in Vegas 5.0 . Top of the line modules that are easy to use, implement and understand.

Vegas 5.0 has a simple interface to lay your recorded tracks on. It resembles a grid which helps you pinpoint where your sound files begin and you can switch the view on this grid to resemble bars and beats, frames or measures.

It has plug-ins that you can use and has a mixer that can support an unlimited amount of channels (that depends on your memory module). Mixing and mastering is so easy in Vegas 5.0 until it puts other industry software standards to shame!

The DVD Authoring module can also make great videos and its templates assist you with synchronizing the sound withthe pictures that you have in the authoring window. You can also author DVD’s for certain screen resolutions and add visual effects through the authoring panel.

You don’t need a studio that’s a spaceship! You want software tools to get the job done and Vegas 5.0 is just as effective as any other professional software available.

There was nothing like taking a new vinyl record out of its jacket. The smell of the vinyl, the crispness of the jacket and the way that the record shined before you put it on the turntable brings back memories of an era that seem faded to most people.

Well the vinyl market is alive and kicking! It’s just in a different realm! Most people still prefer vinyl because it has a warm sound and is not too digital like CD’s are. There are still musicians who prefer to put their music on vinyl for specialized markets and some would rather fight than switch to the CD format.

The vinyl market is really thriving in the genres of techno, rap/hip-hop/trance and dance music. These genres incorporate DJ’s that have to mix, blend and “scratch” sounds while the main beat is playing. It’s real hard to do that with CD’s because CD’s are not as flexible with vinyl. With vinyl, you can line up the record player needle and just blend or scratch a certain part of the album or record.

Most individuals and bands still produce the 12 inch vinyl record for special remixes and send them to DJ’s as promotional items. Some bands and groups do special editions for the fans and the fans love the sound!

So what goes around, comes around! Vinyl is making a special comeback in certain music markets.

Newsletters are the most effective way to keep your fan base informed of what you are doing.

Newsletters are the key for promotions and are very cheap to produce using today’s technology. Most of your fan base is quickly becoming internet knowledgeable and they are using the computer to communicate and find out what’s going on with the artists that they support.

E-Newsletters are coming into vogue because it saves indie groups money to produce these newsletters. Your newsletters should have the same information as your web-site but in short form, which should include: band photos, performance schedule, music reviews, news, articles, song lyrics, band contests, merchandise and contact and booking information.

Your newsletter should entice your fans to come to your web-site so that you can sell them your product or music. You can use your newsletter as a marketing tool to give away free stuff, announce fan contests and test new songs.

Your newsletters should be active customers that frequently visit your site, buy your music and attend your shows. Your inactive fans might receive a newsletter with current information about the band in it every six months.

So newsletters can help you keep your current fan base informed and add more people to it.