Why am I doing this?

Good question 🙂

In my previous post, I mention music is my hobby and not my day job and I thought I would share my ramblings about my creations. I enjoy making music and I have this philosophy : I can have finished items sitting on my hard drive or I can release them on to the general public and one or two people may stream and or buy it.

I’ts not really a social thing either. I have a newly created Facebook page, Instagram and Twitter. My page is dead by the virtue that any post is held hostage until you pay Facebook inc some money to “boost” your page. Twitter is really noisy and the real bizarre thing is Instagram is my most active social site.  How mad is that? a site that was originally about photography is where someone posts about music on it… What string times we live in.  I really respect Dom Kane’s attitude about social media and the music generally, which along side EL Hornet’s posts on twitter about doing stuff for yourself and not for the “likes” sort of got me on this journey.

I also want to share any tips, tricks and secret weapons that I find along the way.  So if you work alone sometimes you think how do I do that? and it would be nice to bounce ideas with someone.  Hit me up and I’ll see if I can help.

 

 

First Contact

The obligatory “Hello World” 🙂

Hi and welcome to the first of many (I hope) blog posts regarding my adventures in music making using just a laptop, set of headphones and an audio interface. The purists out there will reel in horror at that statement, but first some history.

Music is my hobby, my release whilst holding down a day job. I don’t have the space or the justification for a purpose-built acoustically treated room. This is my compromise.

Daw of choice is Bitwig. For the interface, I use an Audient ID4. I have recently purchased a pair of beyerdynamic DT 770 (250 ohm edition). The laptop is a run of the mill Dell i7 laptops. To add some control I have also purchased Sonarworks Reference 4 Headphone edition to try and get as neutral listening experience as possible.

I have released my first track out in streaming stores and BandCamp.

 

 

Links to …
Bitwig
Audient
Sonarworks
beyerdynamic.com