Transit Records – Label Recording Music Production

Basically i want to start recording music, and incorporating audio changes and to be able to play with the vocals and instrumentals a bit, what is a cheap software i can purchase or a free one i can download? any ideas on the process?

RecordForAll is a great audio recording and editing application. You can overlay tracks and add effects. A free evaluation version is available for download from – http://www.recordforall.com

Im very passoniate about writing i always write poems and songs but i want to turn this into my career. How can i become a professional songwriter for a record company nd what should i do?

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My friends and i have a semi-pro recording studio there are several questions i have.

1. Where is an ideal location to have one??
2. How should the layout of the studio look??
3. If you have any other tips for having one please type it down.

1. You need a confirmed loud noise space where you won’t be getting complaints from neighbors, and accordingly, you need to not have any outside noise coming into your space.

2. You want a ‘live room’ where full bands or orchestral, or choruses, or a grand piano would play, and you’d get a great room sound. ideally a nice spacious wood living room with some nice light coming in but not too much glass. You want that room not to have any noticeable echoes like a parking garage would have. It has to sound warm and very slightly reverberant. Then you need a walled off control room, ideally completely sound isolated but with a double pained ‘line of sight’ window to the band. This way your control room speakers and your headphones will provide you with exactly what the mics are picking up, not you hearing the band through the wall. Finally you need a dead room, or iso booth, which is a closet kind of space with tons of soundproofing on every surface. This is for vocals usually so you hear only the source of the sound and zero echo. It’s hard to record vocals without bleed from other instruments in the background messing it up. Vocals need compression usually because people’s voices vary in volume a lot more than other instruments, and if you compress a vocal track with backround music, the background music cuts in and out with the compression filter, and it sounds bad so use the iso booth for vocals. For a typical band recording, you’d have the band play together, for that rocking cohesion in the live room, but without vocals. After that is recorded, have the singer overdub the vocs, or two people doing the backing vocals, etc. in the iso booth. The guitarist can overdub his solo in there as well, or in the live room.

I really want to get into digital music mixing and I really don’t know where to start or exactly how it works. I’ve worked with Fuityloops before, but it’s different I believe. I need to know what I need to chop and mix tracks of actual songs and add, layer, and edit. Please aid in pointing me in the right direction Yahoo community. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Try Audacity (It’s free)

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Apparently all my music is Indie and I don’t even know what Indie music is.

welcome to the club….the internet seems to think that it’s the same as alternative….

I am looking for some equipment for my fiance to use. I want something that has the ability to make beats. I’ve heard of MPC’s and YAHAMA…what is the best one? He is into music production and music PLEASSSE someone give me an idea. Money is no option! Thanks guys!

here are some ideas…

akai xr 20. its a great way to make quick way to make beats, but not neccesarily music

or

a Roland Fantom. probably one of if not the best keyboard on the market

I know when I leave school I want to be in the music industry.
I just know it’s a really hard industry to get into.
I would love to be in a band, but then again, who doesn’t? =D

Does anyone know any other career paths in the music industry?

Well, you’ve got:
Sound engineer
Producer
Open up a recording studio
Band manager
Band guy
Song Writer
Open up a music venue
Open up a music store
Work the PA at a venue
Learn to play guitar
Go skiing
Build a treehouse
Become vegan
And Skip School

I have a local artist that is very multi talented. Can someone point me in the right direction on how I can get a major record label to hear some of his music?

The Musicians Guide To World Domination has some good suggestions on creating online music promotion campaigns to get the major record label’s attention, worth a read!

I’m enrolled for a course called History of Medieval Music. I’ve had AP theory in high school, but quite a few of the people in the class are music majors who have had advanced theory. Is medieval music complicated stuff or what?

I agree with Delicio – the interwoven lines of medieval music are often functioning on a level that one does not appreciate without a decent background.

Tell you what – get yourself a copy of Gradus ad Parnassum by FUX (that is pronounced FOOKS, so you do not get into trouble. Betcha that Yahoo *cleans up* the spelling!). It is the book that Mozart’s teacher used to teach HIM – and countless thousands of other have learned from it. IT goes through the forms of *species counterpoint* – how melodies are built to weave around each other – in a Master and Pupil dialogue. Yes, it can be dry – but see how much of it you can comprehend on your own. If you have a sense of "Ah, Little Grasshopper, see if you can take the cola nuts from my hand!", then it makes it easier to read – we have all seen those kinds of martial-arts learning movies! This can be VERY interesting – my son is getting his MM in Digital Music, and for an elective, decided he needed sometime REALLY different than all the Final and Sibelius and recording stuff running through his head – so HE just tokk a Medieval and Renaissance choral music course – wrote a monster paper on "Spem in Allium". I read it because I am his Mom – otherwise, it would put me into a powerful somnolence . . . A lot depends on the professor – if they are psyched about this, great. If they are a deadly snore – ouch. I had a guy for Art History who was, I swear, the last semi-living grandson of Bela Lugosi. We were asleep in minutes- dark room, too many slides . . .

Good luck with the course – you never know until you try.

I’m not very educated when it comes to recording software for music and such. I can learn easily. I just want some software that I can do vocals on from an mp3. Is there anything out that will let me play the mp3 I have of an existing song and let me record lyrics over it as it’s playing?

If you wont a good one at a price buy roxio creator 10

If you wont a free one use audacity