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Setting Up a Home Recording Studio
Setting up a home recording studio is cheaper and easier than ever. Whether you’re looking to become a sound engineer and/or producer, record demos for your band, or record music as a hobby, setting up a recording studio can be an evening or weekend project. If you do plan on going to a professional recording [...]
Read moreWe Now Donate to Charity
I recently read Start Something That Matters by the creator of Toms Shoes, Blake Mycoskie. I was inspired by his desire to start a profitable business that he was passionate about, while also giving back. For a while now I have been considering how our business, a recording studio, can give back, and decided that [...]
Read morePreparing for your Studio Session
As a budding musician, you are sure to be keen to get your work recorded in a professional studio so you can send it off to record labels. But a commercial studio is quite different to working at home. When you visit a professional studio, you will be paying by the day. This can be [...]
Read moreGetting Paid What You’re Worth
Figuring out how much your work is worth can be tricky, especially if you’re in a creative field. This is by no means a new problem, but technological advances over the past decade or two have made the problem slightly more interesting. It’s difficult to charge more than is expected With the massive increase in [...]
Read moreMaximize the Use of Your Tools
Live within your true means, in terms of money, ability, and utility, and you’ll know when you need to upgrade. It’s probably a bit longer than you think. When I first started recording, I set a budget for my equipment and bought as much as I could afford (which, incidentally, was an M-Audio Delta 44). [...]
Read moreConsuming Music in 2011
Since we’re probably all consuming massive amounts of turkey (or tofurkey) I thought it fitting that I talk about music consumption, too. What does it mean to ‘consume’ music these days? Ten or even five years ago, consuming music was pretty straightforward: buy mp3s, CDs, or listen to the radio. But things have changed a [...]
Read moreReleases: Book Club, Cynics, Gas & Graves, Wizard Smoke
April was a pretty exciting month for us here at Wizkid Sound. We wrapped up mixes for four records! Book Club‘s debut album is being mastered soon, release date to be announced. Featuring members of Cassavetes and Oryx & Crake, this Atlanta-based folk outfit has instruments out the and including the kazoo, and some awesome [...]
Read moreWizard Smoke Releases “The Speed of Smoke”
Wizard Smoke‘s latest sludge assault, “The Speed of Smoke”, has been released. It is available as a free download at http://www.wizardsmoke.net, or on vinyl at Big Cartel or at one of their shows (April 29, 2011 at the 40 Watt and April 30, 2011 at the Drunken Unicorn). We had the, hmm…pleasure! yes pleasure, of [...]
Read moreHot Tracks, Even At 23 Degrees
Man, it’s cold. But the Wizkid Cave is warm with tone and tape saturation (plugins). Time for some lists. What are we working on? Mixes for Solomon’s Road of Mobile, AL CJ Borden from Las Vegas Ari Zelig, who’s in Tel Aviv! Matt Benton who’s in Istanbul! What’s coming up? Tracking and mixing Book Club and Wizard Smoke [...]
Read moreMixing Solomon’s Road Album
We’re excited to be working with Solomon’s Road on their upcoming album. Check out the first track we’ve finished, “Not Kept Silent”. http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F6585158&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=f70000 Not Kept Silent – Solomon’s Road by Wizkid Sound
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