Q and A

Thru my research and friends, the answers will be short to some of the questions I always run into.
How to succeed in recording in 5 easy steps!

1-No one start out a producer or audio engineer without going thru some sort of basic skills or understanding of audio basic and music. You can side step all you want with new expensive gears, forum advices, hip new DAW, and tricks from your friendly neighborhood engineers, but all will collapse on your head one day or hit the wall, it will come. When it comes, you will look like a "midget". Learn your audio basic, signal routing, and the most important...Stage gain.

2-Get yourself a "solid" studio set up within your financial mean, if engineering is what you are you dream or goal.

So you need a studio setup that consists of a good vocal mic, a decent preamp or audio interface, versatile recording and mixing software (or standalone DAW), equalizers, compressors and reverb units or plug-ins. Software to burn CDs. And of course instruments

3-Learn to listen and train yourself to listen to the nuances in music. It is right in front of you in the music Cd you are listen everyday of the best producer and engineer...oh yeah, the song writers too. No it is not an easy task to do but learn it. Basically learn what you "can't hear" in a record. Eventually you will listen to music with an acute ears and determine your own sound or color of your strength.

4-Let your work out of the cage. Let professionals listen your music or work and listen to what they have to say. Let's say you have achieve the commercial sound and somewhat the work are comparable with the commercial sound. GET IT OUT!

5-Let's say the god are smiling on you and you are now successful. Work work and work harder than before.

these are giant steps but they are not easy. I hate to be vague but it is basic and personal. DO IT!