MasteringThis process helps normalise your recorded audio. In the old days, it stopped the needle jumping off the vinyl with heavy bass notes whilst simultaneously enabling a good sound on AM and FM radio. There are plenty of online solutions for mastering - a google search is maybe a good place to start. Another benefit of mastering is making sure the tracks all have uniform volume levels - re
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Being able to say a created work is yours is important if you want to assert your rights and receive royalties. The problem has always been providing satisfactory proof. Let's look at 3 methods of handling your created works.1 - doing nothingFor most people, this is what they do and it may be fine for them. This is, however, very short sighted. If you create a work that exists in the public ...
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Copyright is the system in place to allow you, as the creator of something, to retain your rights in how that work is used. In a piece of recorded music, there can be many copyrights. For example:Composer/Songwriter - the person that creates the music in the first placeThis lasts for 70 years after your death (in the UK)Lyrics - the person that writer the words or librettoThis also last for 7...
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I really like the Beach Boys album 'Pet Sounds'. I like Jazz. Imagine my deep joy on discovering this track from the Leviathan Brothers.Spooky, jazz, funky and still retaining the innocence of the original.Their other tracks are also fine, be sure to enjoy Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day' - very smooth.
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I have been into the music of Steve Reich, Philip Glass and others classed as minimalists for quite some time. This piece is one of my early attempts at writing in this style. It owes more to Glass but the spirit is definitely from Reich.
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At last, the album project which was 'Fancy Goods' nears fruition.From the rehearsal and recordings in the Summer of 2005, to the obtaining of correct licences to the running out of money, this project threatened to stall.Thanks to a family bequest, the Jazz Fusion Behemoth that is the ADJQ, will shortly be reborn.The website is already going - www.adjq.co.ukThe album is going through the myria...
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Check it out, the long super funky Mongrel from my album, Fancy Goods
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