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Working Band #6: From Mix to Master

Somehow or other — in a process that combines love, luck, and a lot of hard work — you got some of your songs recorded (we’ll say three) for your band demo. Now, it will matter somewhat in the marketing...

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Working Band #5: Sound Decisions on Studio Recording

Now that you've had a general introduction to recording, specifically for tracking a live show, this article will give you an overview of studio recording, from the usual rent-a-pro approach to setting up your...

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Working Band #4: Sound Decisions on Live Recording

Okay, so you’ve decided what three tunes you want for your demo, but you can’t decide whether to just record a gig or go into the studio. In this article, we will look at how to set up some low-cost...

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Working Band #8: Internet Overview

It’s a funny thing. Not “ha ha” funny, not really Twilight Zone weird-funny, but somewhere in the middle. As recently as ten years ago, a “Web site” was still a novelty, and something no...

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Working Band #10: The Coming Digital Convergence

In case you haven’t noticed, your computer’s turning into a TV and your TV is turning into a computer. Some technology observers think it could be as little as five years from now that the...

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Money Matters General Overview

Money Matters, a General Overview For some people, one of the most difficult transitions to make from childhood to an adult life involves finances. The various money matters that seem to plague some upwardly...

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Working Band #12: What's Your Message?

As opposed to his teacher Plato, Aristotle believed there were worthwhile roles for artists in society. In case you didn’t know — or care, although more knowledge is always better than less, right? —...

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Working Band #11: Exercising Creative Muscles

If you’ve been a regular reader of my columns, then you know we’ve covered a lot of territory together. Frankly, it’s hard to remember how this all started and what the first (or third or fifth) "Working...

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Practical Personal Finance

Credit cards Few financial products have changed as much over the past decade as credit cards. Everything, of course, changed with the advent of the Internet, but credit cards started an accelerated evolution...

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Do Manners Matter?

I got an e-mail message recently that read thus: "TAKE ME OFF YOUR **** MAILING LIST NOW, NEXT SPAM **** I GET FROM YOU IS BEING REPORTED... STOP IT NOW. **** YOU AND THE HORSE UP YOUR ***." I'm trying to...

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