Tag: recording

Explore everything that goes into making a successful recording, including preparing for sessions, gear, software, mixing, mastering, and so much more with all our our recording articles. For more help getting set up to record your own music, check out Soundfly’s free course Demo Recording 101.

  • The Ins and Outs of Recording Your Guitar “Direct In”

    The Ins and Outs of Recording Your Guitar “Direct In”

    Cranky neighbors. A dearth of suitable space to stack amps. A shortage of cash. There are any number of obvious and legitimate reasons for learning to record your electric guitar tracks direct in. When you get this skill down pat, you’ll find the approach delivers a great deal of speed and flexibility without compromising too much on…

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  • 4 Tips for DIY Drum Recording

    4 Tips for DIY Drum Recording

    For many musicians, the idea of recording a demo can seem a bit daunting, especially when taking a do-it-yourself approach. Fortunately for those of us who need a bit of guidance, Black Lodge Recording’s Vishal Nayak has helped the Soundfly team create a brand new course, full of tips for efficient, effective, and stress-free demo production. For many musicians, the idea…

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  • 5 Simple but Effective Arrangement Tricks That’ll Bring a Track to Life

    5 Simple but Effective Arrangement Tricks That’ll Bring a Track to Life

    Sometimes what makes a song really stand out isn’t so much the writing, per se — it’s the arrangement of the instruments on the recording or performance. The different combinations of sounds and varied dynamic ranges of certain instruments can change a cliché chord progression or melody line into a stand-out moment. When used as a…

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  • Mastering Band Promotion with a Step-by-Step Daily Routine

    Mastering Band Promotion with a Step-by-Step Daily Routine

    One of the worst things about being an independent musician is the feeling of stasis: when you have no shows coming up, or you just put out an album, but you still feel like you’re going nowhere. You feel powerless against the forces of the music industry and the insane number of other people just…

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  • How to Record an Album in an Abandoned Grain Silo (Plus a World Premiere!)

    How to Record an Album in an Abandoned Grain Silo (Plus a World Premiere!)

    + Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. Earlier this year, I was delighted by a dynamic new solo piano album called The Moving Decade. Of all the types of albums to make sound original, surely solo…

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  • 3 Things Bands Usually Overpack for Their First Tour

    3 Things Bands Usually Overpack for Their First Tour

    A couple of weeks ago, I spoke with a group of musicians to discuss the essentials that first-time touring bands often forget. During those conversations, another topic came up: the things they used to bring on tour that just ended up taking up space. If it’s your first tour, your mind is racing at a…

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  • Entrepreneurship in Music: LANDR

    Entrepreneurship in Music: LANDR

           Entrepreneurship in Music Series: 004        LANDR Founder, Justin Evans Landr is computerized track-by-track mastering. The team that built MixGenius years ago is back with a new identity and a bold new take on audio with a self-learning algorithmic program that works off of an enormous bank of references, and is trained to…

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  • Post-Album Rollout: 5 Tactics for Ensuring Your Music Has a Long-Term Impact

    With months and sometimes even years going into the creation of a new body of work, it’s an understood expectation that artists put together some sort of marketing plan in anticipation of their album release. And once your music is available, it feels like the weight of the world is officially off your shoulders. However,…

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  • Jay A. Winn and the Mysterious, Ephemeral World of Railfans

    Jay A. Winn and the Mysterious, Ephemeral World of Railfans

    Exploring the nostalgic secret world of railfans and the universal lessons to be found in a life spent recording the sounds of passing trains.

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  • The 4 Elements That Separate a Good Mix From a Great Mix

    The 4 Elements That Separate a Good Mix From a Great Mix

    The first thing to understand about music is that it’s completely subjective. You might make music for yourself, you might make music for an audience, but the audience will always form their own opinions about your labor of love. The same is true for me: some people love my work, some people hate my work.…

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