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By George Howard and Jeff Price
(Follow George Howard on Twitter / Follow TuneCore on Twitter)
In order for a business of any kind to succeed you must have metrics. You must, at minimum, be able to calculate both how much the business is spending and how much the business is making. The music industry today, in many respects, requires and rewards the artist who views herself as a business-owner/operator. Artists can (and we’d argue, should) be their own label, songwriter, and publisher. As such, artists can develop multiple revenue streams for their business. Downloads of the artist’s records generate income; usages of the song/master in film/TV generate income. Both of these streams of income are fairly easy to quantify. A download of a song generates roughly $.70, and income from usages in a movie/ad, while negotiated, are clear and precise.
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They say one year on the Net is like five years in the “real world,” in regards to the music industry, one year sure feels like 15.
When we launched TuneCore half a decade ago (sounds more impressive than five years) we built a system to change the music industry and empower and serve artists. Since then, the industry has changed and evolved: new stores have popped up, others have shut down; more music is being released, bought, streamed and shared as major labels downsize, release less music, consolidate, put themselves up for sale or get taken over by banks. Music sales by unit are up another 1.5% in 2010 (around 1.6 billion units). With the rumored forthcoming “cloud” services from Google, Apple and Amazon and Spotify entering the US, the concept of over a trillion units being streamed or bought per year is no longer fantasy. Over the past 28 months alone, TuneCore Artists have sold over 300 million units generating over $150 million in gross music sales. Most of these TuneCore Artists are also the songwriter, the publishing company, and the performer, earning them over $100 million more in additional revenue from each of these additional income streams (more on the six legal copyrights that drive the music business can be found here).
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Guitar Miking 101
By Bobby Owsinski & Rich Tozzoli
Bobby Owsinski is a producer, engineer, and musician who has authored 13 books on recording, music and music business. Check out all his books at bobbyowsinski.com and his production blog at bobbyowsinski.blogspot.com. Rich Tozzoli’s music can be heard on various cable television shows and major sporting events. Discover more about Rich at richtozzoli.com.
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The most common recording process has an engineer EQing, compressing, and adding multiple mics in trying to capture a sound, yet never taking into account what the sound in the room at the source is like. In this excerpt from The Ultimate Guitar Tone Handbook by Bobby Owsinski and Rich Tozzoli, we’ll see why it’s important that every engineer use the following steps during any serious microphone placement:
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