Home Studio Tour

Since last time you guys got a tour of the studio I work at I decided to give you a tour of the studio I live in!

Using Social Media

Using social media to benefit you and your artistry is an art within itself. Many of us engage in social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram on a daily bases weather it is just for entertainment or to promote your artistry. However a question that commonly comes into play is weather you should keep your personal and artist profiles separate. Many argue that your personal business should remain just that personal, while others argue that letting your personality shine through you artist profiles helps it become uniquely yours. Social media helps you interact with your fans in a much more personal, direct, and intimate way so it is interesting to see what artists choose to post on social media platforms weather it be just for personal enjoyment or to promote certain items. However one thing is undoubtedly for sure, social media is essentially a tool and how artists choose to utilize and implement that tool in their careers is left to their own accord. Personally I consider myself as an artist in every aspect in my life so I Choose to keep my personal and my artist page as one to expand my presence on social media because at the end of the day I promote who I am and what I am is an artist. But what do you think???

Avid Cloud Collaboration

As you all know Avid will introduce Cloud Collaboration in Protools 12. This new feature will allow Avid users to upload their works and share them with other Protools 12 users around the world. The idea behind the cloud is to take global networking to a new level never seen before. However although exciting some cons can come with the new Avid Cloud, for example exactly how secure is your work on this new cloud? As well as how can works created by different artists around the world be sorted out in terms of copyrights and royalty rights? Pros to the cloud however is that now that the vast Avid community is now connected through a platform of social media that allows the user to fully emerge him or herself not only in their own Protools sessions but the sessions of others who they otherwise wouldn't really communication or exposure to each other. Also another positive feature about the cloud is that now your own work can be heard by an audience not normally in your demographic giving you more exposure as an artist world wide. Without a doubt many factors will contribute to the future of Avid Cloud Collaboration but ultimately time itself will tell weather the new Avid Cloud Collaboration will be a success or failure. What do you think?!

Talking Business/Studio Tour

Just another doing what I do trying to make this money!

Lack of Talent, Saturation of "Artists"

Whats Up guys. As we move further into the future it is quite apparent that media and art itself is evolving. This evolution of media can be seen as either a positive or negative thing depending on how you choose to look at it. Media itself and the tools used to create it has never been more easy to get ahold of than it is now, this could be seen as a good thing because now it doesn't take thousands of dollars to create films, music, and many other types of digital media. However this leaves us with a saturation or creations that lack quality or just aren't up to par. The advance in technology has without a doubt changed the way we as human beings view, perceive, and create art. Never in our history has it been so easy for us to create something and then share it with a mass audience. Now I feel that we are conditioned to not only accept but enjoy art that is mediocre. Although the saying "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" pertains very heavily to art, I think it is safe to say that the bar for real talented art work has dropped significantly within the last 20 years. Another negative to the saturation of work that is being released is that artists with actual vision and talent our now less likely to be noticed and filtered through the garbage. However this is just my opinion let ne know what you guys think!

Social Media and Artists

Shout out my guys StoryTeller, Chilla, and CrazyV for laying down some knowledge in the lab the other day on the importance of social media.

ChiRaq

Here's an audio file that I mixed a while ago. Although I feel that my mixing techniques are far advanced then they were when I first recorded the song,I feel satisfied with the way it sounds. Check it out and let me know what you think!

A day of tracking

Just another day of tracking, a few artists came to the studio last week to lay out some tracks so I could mix them later. Tracking is a long and tedious process but it is necessary, I mean how are you going to mix vocals if you don't track them right??!