I think the biggest pain is a booking guy at a club who doesn’t know how to put together a show. In my old band, which was basically incubus meets pearl jam, we were booked with so many bands that didn’t mesh with our style at all. Extreme metal, weird indie, alt-country (not too bad [...]
Archive for October, 2008
What’s the biggest pain of booking a gig?
Posted in Booking & Promotion, tagged bands, bill, book a gig, booking gigs, club owners, clubs, crowds, exclusive fanbases, fanbase, mainstream rock, music fans, niche market, put together a show on October 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Audio Spotlight: super directional sound for your ears only
Posted in Recording/Mixing/Tech, tagged audio spot light, audio spotlight, bose, directional sound, dr. joseph pompei, electri instruments, headphones, shooting sound, speaker systemn on October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Now this is a cool device. Imagine a speaker system that can send sound to very specific areas instead of spreading it everywhere. A speaker system that could deliver the sound of some drooling monster that you would directly aim at your little brother when no one is around, or that you would aim at [...]
Music Arsenal: new online band management system
Posted in Booking & Promotion, Music 2.0/Networking, tagged artists, band management, basecamp, collaboration, concert management, fan promotional tools, indie band manager, labels, music arsenal, music management, onlinegigs, task on October 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Ever heard of BaseCamp? It’s a project management system that helps organize, plan and centralize all the ‘to dos’ and the undertakings of a collaborative effort. Similar types of services now exists specifically aimed at bands like Indie Band Manager and Onlinegigs, but I’m here to introduce a newcomer.
Music Arsenal is an online management platform [...]
Bassist Wanted: comic strip for the musically inclined
Posted in Band Talk, tagged bands, bassist wanted, comic stip, deja-vu, online comic strip, porter mason on October 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Found this online comic strip called ‘Bassist Wanted‘ by Porter Mason on bands and musicians that brought up quite of few deja-vus. Pretty funny stuff.
More Cowbell to the rescue of all your mixes
Posted in Recording/Mixing/Tech, tagged application, christopher walken, cowbell, iphone, more cowbell, music, sample, voice, will ferrell on October 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you like the sound of cowbells and Christopher Walken’s voice you’re gonna love More Cowbell. Not much to say about a site who simply adds a cowbell track and samples of Chrisophers soothing voice to an uploaded song, besides that for at least 5 minutes the idea seems like pure genius. You get over [...]
Clueless blonde tries to sing into what she believes is a microphone
Posted in Recording/Mixing/Tech, tagged blonde singer, booth, I was born to do this, microphone, recording session, singer on October 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just had to post this.
Turn your mobile phone into a portable recorder with IndabaVox
Posted in Recording/Mixing/Tech, tagged daw, indaba, indabavox, mobile, mobile phone, music collaboration, myvox, portable recorder, remote access, voodooVox, wemix on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The online music collaboration platform Indaba came out with a new experimental feature it calls IndabaVox. It’s gives you remote access to your sessions via mobile phone and allows you to record from where ever you’re calling as well as set up conference calls with other members of your session.
All you need to do is [...]
