What is the Purpose of a Record Label?
The Traditional Role of the Record Label Don’t let anyone fool you, the purpose of a record label is to make money. Traditionally, to achieve that goal, record labels found music artists, developed them,...
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What (Today’s) Sound Engineers Really Do
Traditionally speaking, sound engineers record, edit and mix audio during recording sessions or live sound performances. Indeed, all sound engineers do this and more. In fact, it’s the “more” part of this job that...
How to be a Music Creator in Ableton
Turn to Ableton’s Get Started Making Music Guide Some of the best advice for becoming a music creator in Ableton comes from Ableton itself. To get started, you need to be familiar with the...
How do DJs Make Beats?
At the most basic level, a beat is what keeps the time of a song. Repeated over and over again, the rest of instruments, vocals, and harmonies follow its lead. When listening to a...
What is a Record Label Responsible For?
It used to be that record labels were responsible for just about anything and everything to do with getting music to the consumer. From discovering the artist, to nurturing and developing the artist, to...
How to use Ableton Live in a Live Setting
Part of the thrill of being a live DJ is seeing how the crowd reacts to your music, whether you’re bringing them up or dropping them down. It could be a small underground club...
How to Succeed in Our Programs: Jake Johnson
It’s an overused, tired adage: Those who can’t do, teach. And it certainly couldn’t be further from the truth when you consider Recording Connection mentor Jake Johnson. As a co-founder of Paradyme Productions in...
Hip Hop Producers Who Use Logic
As the predominant music form of the last decade, hip hop has found its way into almost every form of music. Pop, Rock, even Western music has been tinged with hip hop in recent...
How to use Fruity Loops
Now referred to as FL Studio, Fruity Loops was one of the first widely used digital audio workstations (DAW). Originally, it was created as a simple – by today’s standards – four-channel drum machine...
I Want to Learn Logic Pro X
Logic Pro X occupies the DAW space between Ableton Live and Pro Tools. Compared to Ableton Live, it’s got a steeper learning curve and is not as user friendly for Live DJ performances but...
