Posts Tagged ‘promotion’

Freakshowcial Media Mania

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Dramatic blog post titles aside, I’ve been quite busy this weekend attempting to get an OK’ish mix of 3 tracks online for the band.

I’ve been using Cubase since buying the Saffire unit, and am very happy with the results it gives me, but still find it incredibly challenging to get the mixes done satisfactorily with limited monitoring and mixing time available to me. I tend to pop on over to the Home Recording Forum forĀ  very down to earth advice and get your mixes bashed by other listening engineers, I would highly recommend spending some time there if you’re ever in need of audio recording help of any sort.

Brandon Drury – who set the site up from lack of good information on recording, has spent the last 2 years collating a Killer Home Recording suite of eBooks that will take beginner/amateur and working engineer through the gamut of the band recording experience, keep your eye open for that. one on his site. Forum users were treated to a preview release of his book.

Also I’ve been following @solobasssteve who put me onto Bandcamp and a bunch of other musicians, who provide good tips/advice and new sites/ resources tracks etc, from around the web, that can help you discover new technologies that will help you take your creative projects out into the digitial domain and beyond.

Ket  - Bass

I’ve branched out getting involved in the social web explosion (one benefit of being a geek) – And gone for an all out approach to promote the bandĀ  through use of the web and social media sites. Some sites offer free streaming/downloads/revenue generation/profile management etc ..

Here are the sites I’ve signed up to so far:

So for this experiment, I’m going to run through how a band that plays part time (We are all in full time jobs) and wants to gig occasionally, sets up an internet presence and uses the social media tools around you to get a digital shout/light box. Hopefully I’ll be able to show / chart the progress we make and the fruits of our labour.