Re: Music From a Closet

So, I happened across this Washington Times article written by Scott Galupo called Music From a Closet. Very interesting read and some pretty good points. This article makes good coverage of the overall impact that technological advance has had upon the recording industry, but I feel the author left out another very important issue.

There is always a trade off in production quality and musicianship once the general public begins to start making their own home recordings. I have no argument with that side of the coin. But I see a huge upside to that trade off that the author fails to touch on.

For years, the potential for many talented artists and songwriters to get their material heard has been all but out of reach financially. But technology is cheap and that has leveled the playing field considerably. A whole new world of possibilities is now open to the array of sonic creativity and talent that might have remained undiscovered without such technology. It's revolutionary to see how artists are no longer hostage to the status quo set by big corporate record companies.

I also have one quick rebuttal to a point the author makes about chance collaborations that only occur when artists are working at the same time down the hall from one another in these vanishing big studios. What about the collaborations now possible among artists worldwide via the internet? I've done a bit of collaboration with another artist by shooting mp3 or wav files back and fourth and importing them into Pro Tools sessions. Now, if I could only get Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway to respond to my emails.

One of these days, I am actually going to make this blog somewhat of a congruent endeavor. For now, it's just sort of a random collection of musings and thoughts. It's taking me some time to get into some sort of organizational approach to the blog, but maybe I'll hit my stride soon.

With that in mind, I actually do have plans of continuing this guitar instruction thing as some sort of loose series that some of you might actually enjoy and find useful. So, keep checking back often. I hope to have a few vids and tabs up to expand on the first lick by the end of the month.

Other than being busy with the rest of my life, my only other excuse is that I've been fighting with this friggin' Pro Tools LE again. Took me about two weeks of troubleshooting and discussion on the Digidesign User Conference, but I'm actually back to working with my recording sessions. I've been working on a few demo songs for my little solo project that I hope to complete someday. My perfect world scenario would be to release 3-5 songs through a website launch and build a little band to play out locally a little bit. I'd like to see that happen by summertime, but we'll see how it goes.

Maybe I'll post some clips of a few of the demos that I've been working on just for kicks and feedback. I'll have to think about that one.

Anyway, in my pursuit of better home recording skills, I've come across a few cool sites and blogs on the subject. This one is really cool with helpful hints and other interesting nuggets of info about recording and sound production...http://www.hometracked.com/.