2009 SDMA
The 2009 San Diego Music Award nominees were announced today, and four ZenMastering clients are among them.
Best Pop Album: The Modlins — Where Does It End?
Best Local Recording: Shark Attack — Shooting Judas
Best New Artist: Bad Science Fiction
Best Acoustic: Veronica May
We mastered The Modlins Where Does It End? and Shark Attack’s Shooting Judas. And though [...]
Maximum Windmill
This is the winner of Pete Townshend’s Maximum Windmill Contest. Love it!
More ZM Clients Getting Ink
ZenMastering clients Citation Records featured in Inland Empire Weekly.
ZM Client Reviewed
ZenMastering client the Publicists recently reviewed in the North County Times.
From the review…”the lush harmonies…and distinctive vocals add up to make “Stories” one of the best pop albums to come out of San Diego in recent memory.”
Read the rest here.
Letters to the Editor
An article of mine ran in the May/June 2009 issue of Tape Op magazine. If you don’t subscribe, the piece was about how to help your recordings stand up better in the quality-compromised MP3 world. It drew a few Letters to the Editor, which I’m happy to share below with Larry Crane’s blessing.
Nic found the [...]
Take 2
I work a lot with indie artists, and sometimes these are people who don’t have that much experience in recording or mixing. So I’ll ask them to re-do a mix if I feel something could be done better…or I’ll do a few versions of a master in an effort to get something as good as [...]
Good Music, Interesting Interview
I was dropping off some stuff at the Salvation Army today and heard this interview on NPR.
I’ve never heard of William Fitzsimmons, but thought his story is interesting and his music is good. The interview reminds me of the mystery of music and sound.
San Diego Music & Media Conference
Following is the info for the panel I’ll be on at this year’s North Park Music Thing.
Workshop: Music Industry 101: The Basics 2009.
Everything that you need to know is here about getting started in the music business. Panelists will discuss the “how to” for recording a quality demo, to developing a quality promo package, to [...]
musicFIRST
I recently came across the musicFIRST web site. They claim that for over 80 years corporate radio has not paid artists when they play their songs over the air.
The site also goes on to say that a bill was introduced in Congress which would close this loophole in the copyright and ensure that AM and [...]
Shark Attack
ZenMastering client Shark Attack featured in the latest issue of San Diego CityBeat magazine.
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