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I used to write a lot of the press material for my band; basically, I just read a lot of bios by professional bio writers and emulated the style. Once you get the formula down, there's not much to it. But the first step is really a question of marketing. How do want to market your music...

Be sure to let us know your maximum speed once you load up a full PA and backline on the trailer.

I think David's point was that there are people in the music industry who don't expect their clients to generate any backend income for them and don't ask for any backend income. They just provide a service for a fee and that's it. And sometimes they ask for the money up front. If you've...

LLM got a CD the other day from a "trio" called Fougerousse. It's a great CD, worthy of a good review, but they didn't send any paperwork or contact info!! The CD says it's on CDbaby.com, but I have searched there and found nothing. A google search pulled up homerecording.com, so I suspect...

Well, I don't go for the look, but once again I'm no expert and my sites get criticism for the layout and look too. Like Jon's site, I think it needs a bio. Pictures of the band are cool, but if someone comes across your band online, they'll want to know some facts about the band. For...

Well, I'm not a website expert, just a guy with an opinion. If you looked at my websites, you might be saying "physicial heal thyself". But nevertheless, here are my thoughts (sorry if we're hijacking your thread, jon): First off, What are you trying to promote with this site? Your studio...

I can see where it might be usefull if you're a professional songwriter and don't want to do cumbersome old fashioned things like reading books and experiencing life in order to come up with material. Doesn't sound like a $300 item to me. I might pay $50 to add it to my arsenal if I was...

I made about 2 grand last year in royalties. That was a lucky break, really. To me the hardest part isn't doing the work, it's finding the work. I've always had trouble connecting with people personally and making myself memorable. That's what gets gigs. Then you get into the trap of...

A lot of programs (like Acid) have bastardized the .wav format and can cause problems, particularly with older apps like cwpa9. You've already found the solution to most of these issues: open in a wav editor and resave (or whatever it takes to rebuild the header).

There have been some good ones over the years that had to close their doors, more than likely because of bandwidth issues. What kind of sounds are you looking for? Acoustic stuff or more electronic?

It's not for linux, but I hear it works under wine: www.buzzmachines.com

Putting a man on the moon isn't that difficult... you build a spaceship, find some guys to fly it, countdown from ten and whammo!

I've had cheap soundcards before where the actual samples were out of tune, or so aliased that they sounded out of tune. But if every patch on this card is out of tune, you've probably got a global transpose or tuning option set wrong somewhere. Synth oscillators drifting out of tune is a...

The sounds are just synth sounds built into the card. Chances are your friend has a different or newer card that has more built in sounds than yours. More than likely your card has only the one drum kit, and it's ignoring the patch changes that you send it.

You should start analyzing songs you like the sound of to see what sort of progressions they're using. Also, start asking yourself what other chords will work with the melodies you're writing.

Well, I could dig out my old contract somewhere, but it's quite a stack of paper and I'm not about to scan it all. Besides, after page 2 you'd have your head spinning in legal terms (unless you're a lawyer, of course). I'd recommend getting Donald Passman's book about the music business...

Here are my thoughts, take them for what they are.. First off, I like the site design. It's nice and compact and fairly modern. Much better than my sites anyway. :) Second, the question you should be asking isn't how to promote your site, but how best to use your site to promote your music...

I probably would add mp3 at some point as I said. Converting ogg to wav shouldn't be any harder than converting mp3 to wav, provided you have a player. I don't know why you would say it sounds better, that's not possible. It's lossy compression; once what's lost is lost, it's lost. There's no...

Well, I'm glad to hear that jazzrich was correct in his assumptions. I'm also glad to hear that you're working out those contract issues, and I hope you do soon. Please understand that I'm not trying to be nitpicky or needlessly accusatory here, but I've been far too often in the position of...

True... I probably should add mp3. Eventually I will. That's a fair point, but to play devil's advocate, do you want someone's first impression of you to be some cruddy, mangled lofi mp3?