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Mike’s Career Success Tips – Part I

Part One 

This is the first of ten career success tips, I plan to impart for any interested listeners. Whether you are trying to decide if a music career is for you, just starting your music career, or a seasoned music professional, I think one or two of these tips will be of interest to you. There are a lot of people providing access to joints that help to build your skills, and most do a great job.  My goal here is not to try and compete with them. I will stay in my lane.  From time to time, however, I might suggest and recommend others.  I view these tips to be aimed at your mindset, and behaviors that will either make you or break you. So, whether you aspire to be a songwriter, an artist, a musician, and or producer, in my experience, these tips may apply:

Some Tips To Dip Into:

  1. You got to put in the time. (See details below)
  2. You can only do two or three things very well, so focus.
  3. Once you are focused, decide on what value you offer to others.
  4. Determine how you fit in.
  5. Determine how you can market what you offer.
  6. Develop a marketing strategy.
  7. Provide quality service or products.
  8. Follow up and communicate with your customers.
  9. Always try to anticipate what your customers, followers, or clients need.
  10. Keep trying, you can always make it better.

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Mastering: Rules of the Road

While the business model of the music industry has its ebbs and flows, the general methods of creating a good audio mix and master have only slightly changed.  The competition level of producers in the music industry to create the best sound track or master is still at an all-time high.  The goals are still to deliver a master to the client that sounds better than their competitors.  There are so many books, videos, tutorials, websites, blogs, etc. on recording, mixing, and mastering that it can be somewhat overwhelming and esoteric for novices to learn the proper methods and best techniques.  Everyone has what they feel are best, but provide such information with complexity and confusion.  Not all efforts are this way, and finding the ones that are clear and succinct can be a daunting task.

You might ask, “what is the information that a songwriter, musician, producer, sound or mixing engineer needs to know?” Hopefully, this blog will provide tips and insights that are useful for helping to deliver a master can compete with the competition.  The task of mastering can be very complex and involve pulling aspects together to create an album with seamless transitions between songs, preparing files to be sent to a CD or DVD manufacturer, wav file conversions, etc. So, let’s keep it as simple as possible, and touch on the most essential aspects of the mastering process.

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