The top three elements of a commercial song:

1) Good recording
2) Good production
3) Good mix

Don’t skip over these three items, because if you underestimate them; then you deny yourself a great deal of power that you have at your disposal. When you go to industry conferences, they spend a lot of time talking about the business side of things contracts, how to get your music in the hands of executives, copyrights, how to sell your music, how to use the internet properly, but before you can do that– you need to do this.

Step #1 more…

It will wind up sounding like garbage…

No one will listen to it — and if it isn’t worth listening to again, they might use a permanent marker and mark all over the back of your CD so it will never play again!

This is what could happen if your music sounds bad or sounds good, but is mixed horribly.

You don’t have to be an expert mix-engineer to get a good quality mix out of your home-recording, or out of the studio. Sometimes the engineers behind the controls don’t even know what they’re doing, because they don’t know one simple thing… and this is the thing that a countless number of artists tell me time and time again. more…