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Everything You Need to Know About Pressing Your Music on Vinyl

September 18, 2024

Photo Credit: Pexels In 2023, vinyl sales experienced their 17th consecutive year of growth, reaching an impressive revenue of $1.4 billion. With 43 million vinyl albums sold in the United States alone, surpa... Read More...

Why You Should Make More Short Songs

Caleb J. Murphy

February 19, 2024

Photo credit: BandLab Let me start by saying, you can do whatever the heck you want as a musician. But this post is about the growing trend of short songs, why you may or may not want to make more short song... Read More...

A Case for Recording Your Songs Live (or Close To It)

Caleb J. Murphy

November 29, 2023

Photo credit: Ben Collins Theo Katzman is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, solo artist, and member of the funk band Vulfpeck. And he recorded the songs on his album Be The Wheel live, all one takes, wit... Read More...

Splash Pro Gen-2 AI Lets You Craft Licensable Music and Vocals from a Text Prompt — Here’s How

Paul Resnikoff

October 11, 2023

Users can quickly sign up for the Splash Pro free tier, reveals Splash General Manager Tarika Wickremeratne. Generative AI platform Splash just released its Gen-2 feature, allowing users to generate new music... Read More...

5 Methods That Will Improve Your Recordings

Caleb J. Murphy

October 3, 2023

Photo credit: Tim Toomey A recording can have many problems. Bad timing. Thinness. Blandness. So I want to share five methods that will improve your recordings. These are things I do as an indie songwriter ... Read More...

A Deep Dive Into the World of AI Voice Cloning

Virginie Berger

August 31, 2023

Photo Credit: s2dungnguyen AI voice cloning, or voice synthesis, leverages sophisticated machine learning algorithms to recreate a specific human voice. To accomplish this voice recreation, algorithms are tra... Read More...

How To Steal From Other Artists

Caleb J. Murphy

July 28, 2023

Photo credit: Markus Winkler You should be stealing stuff from other songwriters and musicians. It’s one of my favorite ways to create music, or to get unstuck. Let’s talk about it. What I Mean by “Stealin... Read More...

4 Tools To Make Remote Collaboration Easier

Caleb J. Murphy

July 7, 2023

Photo credit: Gabriel Benois I do a lot of remote collaboration. I’ve co-written songs remotely and I produce artists from around the world. So I’d like to share some tools that can make your next remote co... Read More...

How To Treat Your Home Recording Studio

Caleb J. Murphy

June 30, 2023

Photo credit: Techivation I just set up my recording stuff in one of my bedrooms at my new place. So setting up and treating my home recording studio has been on my mind. This post will show you all the ste... Read More...

AirGigs Music professionals for remote collaboration

AirGigs Creates a Community of High-Level Music Professionals for Remote Collaboration

Mathilde Neu

June 22, 2023

AirGigs Music professionals for remote collaboration AirGigs is the premier destination for remote collaboration, quietly innovating and attracting a growing roster of talent. The bootstrapped company’s roste... Read More...

4 of My Favorite Piano Plugins

Caleb J. Murphy

June 8, 2023

Photo credit: Westwood Instruments I work out of a small bedroom recording studio. But if I want a grand piano in my song, I can have one. If I want an 80s-style electric piano, I can have that too. And if ... Read More...

What’s the Deal With Sped-Up Songs?

Caleb J. Murphy

May 20, 2023

Sped-up songs are a trend right now. People love fast songs so much that Spotify has a playlist devoted solely to “150%” fast songs. Why though? Who knows – trends come and go because something in the zeitg... Read More...