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One of our very own members has written this very useful article: Optimize Your DAW Computer for Your Home Studio - Audiofanzine A great read and a must!

I think it is all a matter of philosophy. I don't believe in luck as way to accomplish anything in life. What you might call luck, I call predestination. For example, you got lucky because this and that person discovered your music. But if you look carefully, this person was predestined to...

Being 'famous' is not what it seems to be. It is not all fun and games. Most of the time it is not. It is hard work, lots of pressure, and no private life. It's hard to trust anyone because everyone just wants a piece of you. I would never want this sort of public life. The best thing...

My theory is, and you might disagree, but if you plan long enough sooner or later your music will be listened to by the right people whether you are aware of it or not. You will be noticed. The difference is, is somebody going to do something about you? If your music isn't marketable, you...

Lol. For a second there I thought you were a spam bot :facepalm: ummm, sorry I said we need to stay on-topic and stop with lols.....

I am saying, even something that seems lucky is not because it took hard work for that 'lucky' musician to practice his skill to be good enough to be noticed. And how do I explain Green Day selling more records than the Ramones? Different times and different eras. Also Green Day writes pop...

First off, let's try to stay on topic here and not waste too much space on lols and banning predicaments. Second, in my opinion, making it has very little to do with luck. Nothing happens out of thin air. It happens because of any combination of hard work and hard cash. And talent, has very...

Let's not get all elitist here. You can't pick and choose your audience, and it's ridiculous to shun someone because this artist plays to what you perceive to be a 'stupid audience'. If you don't respect famous artists just because they are famous and sold out? Let's get real. They made it...

You didn't miss anything. That's what I meant. I wasn't advocating anything, just making observations, but perhaps it came out the wrong way and at least one person was thinking that I advocated streaming. Yes, I stream as opposed to buying music, but that's just cause I am lazy, and to be...

I used to work at record labels back in the 90's in NYC. I remember how wasteful everything was, people who sat behind desks and did nothing but trade CD and concert tickets with their friends who worked at other labels. Walking into the Sony building was like walking into a 5 star hotel. A...

OK here is a question- if you guys all believe that people are not going to pay for music, isn't this placing music making, recording songs into files in danger? You can imagine if now everybody can get pasta for free, companies would stop making pasta, and those that still really like pasta...

Alright, so what do you say to record labels? Should they just fold and call it a day? If they are losing money like in any business they should close shop, no? Then what- artists are left to their own devices to home record and do the marketing and everything? I too, once used to spend...

I mostly agree with what you are saying, though maybe not as harshly. But there are people who pursue making music or playing as a profession and this is their job. There are music school and educators, and great players playing in orchestras. You can't just write off the entire music field...

And my followup reply ...I just want to say that by no means am I trying to promote 'free music', but citing other business models. Distributors have to get creative in how to monetize their music listeners, as some streaming cites have done. Music owners (labels & artists) need to work with...

Reply by HR member CSP -------------------------------- Chater-La, Firstly I really enjoy receiving the weekly edition of the Homerecording publication/forum/etc, but i would like to raise an issue with your last editorial. I realise that the publication is geared towards the home...

I am not sure if some of you are reading my weekly editorial. But I had an interesting private reply to my editorial that I thought I'd share with you and we can discuss. So for those who are not subscribed to the newsletter here is what I wrote: A few years ago I mentioned in my editorial...

@ TAGG welcome to HR, FYI please refrain from name calling in on-topic threads (that's what the Cave is for). Since you are new and all is patched up now, I just let it slide, but just so you know we try to keep it clean, if you have a problem with someone you can PM them and/or report the post...

I was asked by Steven to post this here for him as he is not used to forum technology....yet, somehow knows his way around a compressor :eek: Enjoy! The Alesis 3632 Compressor is the new and updated version of one the most popular dynamics processors ever, the 3630, which was famously quoted...

Maybe also studio prices have come down to make it more accessible to artists. Artists also think that if they record at a certain studio with this producer it will help them network and break into the business. On the internet you just drown trying to promote yourself.

Hi Bob and thanks for doing this.... I have a more general music biz question. It seems like the era of big producers and fancy studios is coming to an end and big name producers are riding the waves of their past successes and get clients who can afford their fees- mostly famous acts. You...