Understanding Music Royalties – Composition, Publishing, and Mechanical Royalties
An overview of copyright, publishing, master royalties and how to create basic agreements before starting a collaborative composition process.
Shout out to FoldedWaffle.com
We wanted to give props to the folks at FoldedWaffle.com for their recent coverage of Pay to Play (feat. Sera Mukisa). It’s always super rewarding as an artist to see a review posted where someone truly understands where you’re going with a song. The track dives into the absurdity of influencer culture, where authenticity is …
Pay to Play
Gotta say, I’m pretty stoked about this one. Whatever happened, the SoundCloud algo kind of picked up after some people liked it and it’s ended up being my most successful track so far (at least as far as SoundCloud fame goes). Check out Pay To Play – it’s all about social and people paying to …
10 Minute Guide to Audio Compressors and Dynamics Processing
What Are Compressors (and Dynamics Processing) First of all, if you’re here looking for information about audio compression algorithms like MP3 encoding, this is not the right place! This guide is about audio compression in the “dynamics processing” sense, and not in the reducing data sense. Sorry if you landed in the wrong spot. As …
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Introducing Technocritic
I’m pleased to be able to post a sneak preview of a new duo I am in with my good friend and longtime musical collaborator Chris Deas. Technocritic is an indietronic group we’re building up, and we’ve just launched a preview of the first track. Chris performs vocals on this, and I did a bunch …
Shout out to KTLM – Release of “Of the Perpetual Grief of the Hedgehog”
Congrats to our friend and client KTLM for release of “Of the Perpetual Grief of the Hedgehog”
Feel It
Dropped a new track today that I kind of dig. I called it “Feel It”. This one originally developed as I was exploring Groove Pools in Ableton Live (applied a Disco groove to this, just for interest) and I kind of liked where it went. Concept-wise, I sort of imagined this being a soundtrack of …
UAD Feature – Louis Bell (Post Malone)
Once again, some promo content but there were a bunch of production gems in this one from Louis Bell, producer for Post Malone and many others. Saving this one for my own reference but you may find it useful too. https://www.uaudio.com/blogs/ua/louis-bell-nailing-tone-for-post-malone
UAD Vocal Chains
This is obviously a UAD promo post, but there were actually some pretty interesting vocal chains referenced on the page. I grabbed the link to keep it here to make it easy to access in the future. I subscribe to UA Spark, so I have most of the plug ins in my sub, and it’s …
Writing Progressions Using 7th Chords
Super helpful video I ran into that dumbs down how to use 7th Chords in progressions and how to stay in key while doing it.