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If you ever had a project that required sound effects, you could either wait for it to start raining or your baby to start crying and then whip out your tape recorder. Or you can visit Songle. Songle is a massive database of sound effects, that you can use to help give your song writing projects that little bit of extra.

Rockseter+Pro Born promises to turn dead tracks in to big live sounding mixes deliver professional studio sounding

The midrange and tweeter cabinets on B&W Nautilus speakers are shaped like teardrops for reasons other than fashion. In fact containing the driver inside a sphere that is pulled back to a point rather than a typical wide baffle box provides significant sound quality benefits. READ MORE

Demands have changed in the last decade, too. Volume levels have increased in concerts, although the key to good sound is not volume, according to Wyland. What is important is the dynamic range, or being able to hear the softer and detailed sounds just as clearly as the louder riffs. - A good piece for our is music getting too loud segment.

Looking for some new USB speakers for recording on the go? Then these new LaCie Sound2 speakers seem like your new best friend.

4 popular sites where you can get sounds and loops, to enhance image and make your productions much more professional and entertaining. Flas

Rolce-Royce and Mecedes-Benz extend commitment to HD Radio Get your autotune ready to cover up any imperfections in your voice. Rolce-Royce and Meredes-Benz USA are extending availability of its premium HD Radio feature packages to more of its newest automobiles, with the goal to bring superior sound quality and clarity to all of their 210 models. That includes the E & the E-Class coupe, the CL, CLS, S and the SLK. If your particular about sound quality this may be a blessing and a curse.

Suspend Vocal Technique Momentarily Have You heard those songs when it sounds like the vocalist is whisper-singing and wondered "man how do they do that". It's not quite singing and its definitely not a full blown whisper, its actually a track that a lot of Pop vocalists keep in their bag of tricks. Vocal Coach Judy Rodman has some bad news for you wannabes, the trick can either be executed expertly or poorly. I'm guessing the poor one sounds like somebody choking on a rice grain. To find out more about delivering vocals with authentic emotion rather than just "singing" head over Judy's blog and check out a couple videos.

Explore music has recently published the results of a poll determining the scariest theme songs in film. As a songwriter i find this list as an invaluable tool that you can use to compare songs in your library that you have deemed scary. Take a listen to each song in the list, most can be found on Youtube, and listen carefully to what instruments are being used and how they are being used, then mimmic these styles and sounds in your productions. Music supervisors are constantly basing their selections off of similar sounding songs, so having songs that mimmic the top 5 should definitely help with increased placements. Remember good artists copy, great artists steal. Landing at number 1 by the way, Psycho Theme (Psycho) by Bernard Hermann.

Tick Tock, The Copyright Act of 1976 is About to Expire. It's always entertaining to me to watch the money traps that the labels set for artists, back before information was freely available, EXPLODE! Welp, that's exactly what's about to go down. The Copyright Act states that an artist or author who sold a copyright before 1978 can take it back 56 years later and If it was sold during or after 1978 they can take it back 35 years later. Assuming a correct and prompt filing of paper work, the record labels could lose sound recording copyrights they bought in 1978 starting in 2013. How does this affect you? If the labels don't wanna lose the contents of their entire library you can make a for sure bet that the new copyright law will be negotiated in your favor. Higher royalties anyone?

Do you have an affinity for synthesizers? Synthgear has an incredible video display of vintage synthesizers that will make you blow your top. Each synth is given it's own solo so you can actually see the sounds that correspond with each synth. Coool... I know it's cheating but i think imma try and grab the software versions of my favorite.

1000 true fans. Even 500 sounds like a good number.

Polk provides surround sound capabilities from a wireless system.

How nice of Alicia Keys to lend Alicia's Keys to the rest of humanity. Grammy winning award winner Alicia keys has teamed up with KONTAKT to release new software that recreates Alicia Keys' personal grand piano with outstanding authenticity and playability. Now musicians can use Alicia's acclaimed signature piano sound in their own music production, live performance and recreational playing. Using vintage microphones, high-end outboard studio gear and two years worth of meticulously recorded key sampling, Alicia's custom Yamah "C3 Neo" can now be passed down through the community instead of selfishly being hoarded away in some fancy million dollar studio.

As more musicians become producers with the help of their oh so advanced audio software sound quality is actually steadily improving with each update to pro-tools. Pro-tools or no Pro-tools did you know that there is no real correlation between audio quality and music sales. At least this is what this chart is supposed to prove.

Tired of creating songs that sound too much alike? Add a partner to the group. The ideas that a partner can bring to the table and they way that they work through and create songs can bring you all of the orginal flava that your new music has been craving.

Money owed that noone knowed. Are you a member of SoundExchange? Actually, let me rephrase, do you have songs on myspace? If you do then head over to SoundExchange and grab yourself a free membership. SoundExchange is a non-profit performance rights organization that collects statutory royalties from satellite radio (such as SIRIUS XM), internet radio and other streaming platforms. Myspace recently teamed up with SoundExchange to help identify the more than 25,000 major, indie and unsigned artists who are registered with myspace but not with SoundExchange. Collectively there's $14 mill in royalties sitting in a SoundExchange bank account, waiting to be paid to you.

MXL ASS KICKER the "A-55 Kicker" which is also a visual reference to the phrase "ass kicker" is a dynamic mic intended for use on kick drums. The mic has been making a lot of noise (or should i say picking up a lot of noise) since its last year release. The recordinghacks website has a little break down on the mic, which boasts features such as the lowest mic sensitivity ever seen and tailored EQ. READ MORE.