Your Demos Need to Sound Excellent

...and they can! The bar has been raised for how good your home recordings need to sound to have the right impact. It is possible to make money from your own recordings through various ways, like licensing for TV, Movies & Games, selling your songs online and selling your songwriting skills to publishers. My experience with these avenues of monetizing my own music has taught me that the quality benchmark for recordings you submit, even on a home system has risen considerably in the last few years. A good recording is no longer good enough. Your product needs to be excellent. Nearly all companies looking for music, no matter what the genre or application are looking for something that is finished and ready to use without any further treatment or re-working. The term broadly used by companies looking for music is "Broadcast quality"

Even those that submit demos to publishers in order to just get their songs used by their artists are expected to submit a recording that is broadcast quality or close to it, even if it is a simple vocal & piano or acoustic guitar, so it is essential that your lovingly crafted music be presented in all it's glory and shining as great as it possibly can.

You have recorded your masterpiece, but there is still something missing. You have tried everything you know with your recording setup, but it just doesn't sound the way you know it can and should, so you start to doubt whether it is good enough at all. What a tragedy, when you are so close to having a killer track out there, working for you. What is wrong?

You need a quality mix. You're happy with your recorded material and a quality mix will provide the finishing touch it needs to shine. You don't have the budget to pay for a pro-studio mix and after having already tried mixing it your own DAW system you are searching for a solution.
Does this sound familiar to you?

powerBook Studio Mix Philosophy

I am a musician and songwriter as well as a producer and mix engineer, so I know where you're at. I also have a specific mixing process, which is a little different to most and I have it down so effectively that I can work extremely quickly with amazing results.

I can also improve the sound of individual recorded tracks with various processing techniques if necessary.

I am here to tell you that it is possible to create excellent results without a large mixing console and all the latest toys (Although it's always nice to have them), which is why this service is so cost effective.

Having a natural ear for music and sonic detail has led me, through a passion for creating sounds and music to hone my listening skills, but that's not all. Any sound engineer, no matter how good needs to instictively be involved with the music he/she is working with and be able to listen to the big picture and the small details simultaneously, which comes with experience.

My working practice has become an instinct and this is why I work very quickly, along with the fact that my system is uncluttered and intuitive, making it very easy to put all focus on what is important. Your recorded material: Creating a killer mix!

Examples of my work

Make a cup of tea, sit back and enjoy some audio clips. Some songs were tracked & mixed using the PowerBook Studio, 8-track solution, whilst others were recorded elsewhere and transferred to PowerBook Studio for mixing.

Sound clips follow on from each other in each category, but you can skip through them too if you wish.

Boy @ Heart: All in a Life's Work Album Project

Ongoing Project: The Weekly Songcast

Studio Services

Maybe you need some music to fit with your lyrics, a song or instrumental track for your independent movie (or Hollywood blockbuster, I'm not fussy!). Perhaps you need some guitar or vocal harmony overdubs to embellish your track. You might even want an orchestral string arrangement to add some real class to your masterpiece.

Services PRovided

• Mixing
• Composition & Songwriting
• Guitar & Bass Tracks
• Vocal performance tracks & Harmonies
• Real-sounding Drums & String Programming
• Production & Arrangement
• Music Production Tuition

Dynamic Content & Updates

PowerBook Producer Podcast
A podcast at my sister website PowerBook Producer, which will include audio and video tutorials, recording and mixing tips and anything else I can think of that will be of value to those who love recording audio.

News & Updates
...will appear here as and when they happen.

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