Hey guys. I dug this up and intend to go through it gradually throughout this week. Though its 3 years old, I found many interesting topics of discussion here. While Eric is here with us, I thought I’d share it. Please feel free to question or comment. A link to his new book is posted below!
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To summarize - it seems that nowadays you have to be a 360 degree artist to make a living: composer, musician, engineer, and producer. It’s all about the song.
It depends…for some people it flows naturally. Think of Prince for example, he did everything and that’s at a time when that was not expected.
I’ll give you an example from my own “career” or whatever you’d call it
I was in a semi successful band, and since we split up in 2013, the singer, bassist and drummer haven’t done anything with music.
The other guitarist and I tried to learn drums, so both of us can do our own drum parts. We bought e-kits and were suffering thru “Drumming 101”. I was awful at it, but the other guy is Brazilian so I guess that clicked more for him. I seem to be doing better with EZDrummer and plugins so I went in that direction. Now, our trials and tribulations as vocalists vary to certain degree but we pretty much do the whole 360 thing. I might mix and master some of his songs, and he might play some leads on mine.
After several years of “home studio” tweaking, I had about enough and joined a band. The experience of doing everything myself definitely helps me present my songs better and unlike any of the other members that bring in half baked ideas.
One thing that changed, my workflow became more personal, last studio experience I had with an engineer, I was actually super annoyed that I had to translate to someone else how I want something done.
Just FYI, I saw that PureMix.net is going to do a live Q&A with Eric/MM tomorrow (Friday):
This Friday, November 30th at 1pm EST , we will be live with Mixerman , where you will have the opportunity to ask him your questions about his records , books , and tips for musicians on how to survive making a killer record.
I missed the live broadcast, but watched some of the replay. There were a lot of glitches with feedback delays in the audio, which was pretty annoying. Technical thing on the PureMix end I would guess. I always find it ironic when pro audio oriented broadcasts have crappy audio.
