I’m a producer just like you. I totally get off on writing dope lyrics, creating beats, and mixing RnB and Rap vocals. I also play rock guitar, so I like to crank my amp up and record tracks onto my computer using a microphone. Sometimes, I’ll just buy beats online and record my own rap or RnB vocals on top of it, mix it down and put out the song.
When I started out, I used to get the most lame sound quality when I did my final mixdown. I couldn’t figure out how to make it sound good to save my life!
In fact, you’ll probably even hear that in some of my real early tracks, you might find some online if you look hard enough… I have a ton of stuff out there.
I mean in a good way — my grooves sound like they’re coming from outer space now! Sometimes I can’t even believe how good my tracks sound.
After a lot of trial and error, I discovered the secret that makes my mixdowns sound crystal clear, even more than realistic – larger than life!
I remember spending days and days which turned into weeks and weeks on the same song, trying this, trying that, never being satisfied with the final mixdown for mastering.
My name is Hugh J. Hitchcock and I’ve been a working musician, performer, writer and producer for over 40 years. I have had songs I’ve written recorded and released on some big record companies, for some big name stars and producers, on some pretty big record labels, including United Artists, for one. I have worked with some big names in the industry. I can’t disclose their names here, because I don’t assume they would appreciate being associated with a commercial product without royalty agreements! A search on the internet would probably uncover the information if you really need to look it up. You can take my word for it – I’ve been around in this industry.
My close musician friends call me “the Doctor” because they view me as some kind of musical “mad scientist”! (Although ‘Super Producer’ is probably a more accurate name, it doesn’t sound quite as cool as the Doctor!)
I’ve even been able to get a song in the top 100 international charts, topping at #75 in the adult contemporary genre – a song I wrote, produced and promoted myself, 100% right from my own home, back in 2010! True it wasn’t a number one, but hey, I’ll take #75 over # nothing. Especially for something I cooked up right in my own room.
I’m a musician at heart, through and through, but my “real” job for years was as a software engineer, and I’ve worked for some big fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft. But that was after I’d worked the club circuits for a lot of years in my teens and twenties.
Those days were before you could just plug into a computer and record music – to get a decent recording of one song, you’d either have to invest in a ton of analog tape recording and mixing equipment, or invest a small fortune in studio time by the hour.
Take your pick — as a working musician, you had to make a choice between eating and recording, unless you had a backer. Let’s just say that I did put out some nice tracks in those days, but I ate a lot of peanut butter sandwiches, too.
But not anymore! Digital recording on your computer has been available to producers like you and me for quite some time, making music production almost free! I started learning it around 2000. My computer background really came in handy! There was a bit of a learning curve, but now some 12 years later, I know for sure the right way to make competitive, professional sounding music right from your computer, with very little, if any, extra expense. The secret is all in the know-how of setting up your hardware and software for the most optimum, crystal clear mixes, ones that will blow you away. Anyone can read and follow these tips to set up your system for an amazing result.
Like I said, I worked as a programmer for a lot of years. But since the economy crashed, believe it or not, there’s more work in the music production industry than there ever has been before – more work than in programming these days! And it pays about the same or even better. So it’s definitely worth your while to do whatever it takes to advance your knowledge in the music production industry.
My e-book will allow you to advance your career as a music producer about three years in one week’s time, if you learn this material.
I own a website where I provide music production services for the public, mainly mastering and mixing online, but I’ve also done a ton of productions from the ground up including a number of CD releases that I produced personally.
Over my years helping people with their music, I’ve heard it all… From world-class artists bringing me expensive mixes that knocked my socks off, and are a complete pleasure to master, and go on to become hits — to school kids, recording rap songs about their girlfriends in their bedrooms, with a $10 cassette deck and a tiny plastic microphone, hoping that I’ll master their joint till it’s ready to compete with the high-end rappers’ releases of today.
In this industry it’s all about producing not just really good, competitive sounding music, but with the technology that’s available today, you’ve got to make music that elevates itself way beyond the rest of the crowd.
There is one sure, hidden path to achieve this — no matter what equipment you record with on your computer –
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