grateful/disorder ships for pressing

Posted on | November 14, 2009 | Comments Off on grateful/disorder ships for pressing

I’ve shipped a master of my first album, grateful/disorder, for duplication. 100 CDs will come back to me, and once I have them, I can ship them off to CDBaby and the fun begins.

It is remarkable that I produced this entire album for almost nothing. The whole thing was recorded in my apartment on a BOSS digital 4-track recorder which I got off eBay for $90 two years ago. boss_BR-532_main Every track was mixed down and mastered (I’m being generous with that word here) into Audacity, a free sound editing package. Every sound you hear ran through cables my cat chewed on.

No wonder so few people can make money in the music business anymore. The same advance in technology that allows us to make quality recordings on the cheap allows people to gain access to recordings on the cheap, or even for free. As long as there are thousands and thousands of people willing to use their evenings and weekends to make their music, the market will be awash in just enough quality material that our social bookmarks can sort through it all. We almost don’t need full-time musicians anymore. We just need a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters, and the technology to sort their output.

I suck as a producer, by the way, but I’m learning.