How to Set Up a Home Recording Studio in 7 Days Flat - Day 7

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Having your own home recording studio is one of the biggest advantages you can provide for yourself as a musician. In this 7 part report on setting up your own home recording studio, we are discussing the necessary recording equipment and software that your home recording studio will need. As we arrive at the last section of this series, it is time to discuss the options for putting your music into the hands of the public.

How to Set Up a Home Recording Studio in 7 Days Flat - Day 7

Years ago, music was recorded on cassette tape, 8-track tape and vinyl records. The most popular choice for many beginning bands was the cassette tape and so we have the term "mix tape" as part of our vernacular today. Modern music produced in home recording studios has been made possible by our advances in technology that have brought us the CD burner and the ability to store music in mp3 files.

Since most of us who are recording music in a home recording studio intend to use it for CD production, we will primarily be focusing on CD burners. The new home recording studio can use:

The CD burner that is built into your computer. The upside: It is equipment you already own so it isn't going to cost you extra.The downside: You can only burn one CD at a time. This option will work for a new start up but when you start to get orders for hundreds of CD's, you won't have time to burn them all one at a time.

A professional CD burning tower. Like a computer tower with two or more CD burning drives, the CD burning tower gives you the ability to burn more than one CD at a time. In some cases, the professional CD burner is also capable of duplicating CD's by loading the individual slave drives with blank CD's and putting the Master copy in the primary drive. When the drive is closed, it automatically begins the process of copying the Master copy CD's contents to all of the other CD's.

Features you need to look for in professional CD burning tower:

Drive Speed - Get the fastest recording speeds possible to make recording multiple CD recording faster.

Number of CD Drives - More is better. If you can afford an 8 bay CD burner, go for it. When the orders start rolling in, you can focus on your band and not constantly reloading your CD burner.

Duplication Function - Does the CD burner you are looking at have the auto duplication function we discussed earlier? This function can be a wonderful thing because it frees up your computer to do other tasks, like recording new music.

We have now reached the end of our discussion on setting up your own home recording studios. Hopefully, you have learned some useful information that will enable you to begin the process of recording, editing and producing your own music, bypassing the greedy corporate recording companies and keeping the profits in your own pocket.

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The Wackness DVD Review

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Before there was coastal beef, when Biggie was just getting started, before Tupac got got and just after Kurt Cobain popped a hole in his head is where the coming-of-age film, The Wackness takes place.

The Wackness DVD Review

The Wackness paints a mural of New York City in 1994, the year when hip hop was golden and a heat wave hit the city. Written and directed by Jonathan Levine, who earned an Audience Award during the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, expectations of The Wackness are that it's a goofy comedy about partying. Instead, it takes us on a raw graffiti soaked morality tale through the streets of the Rotten Apple.

The film is set in the summer that the newly inaugurated Mayor Rudy Giuliani vowed to clean up the city. But in the meantime, Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) is getting by the best he can. It's his last summer before college and he's spending it selling weed around the city and even trading it to his shrink, Dr. Squires (Ben Kingsley), to get free psychoanalysis. From here the film takes its course.

One of the most refreshing things about The Wackness is that it doesn't try to be bigger than it really is. One of the things that killed the indie film movement was every director's desire to make the biggest movie they could, usually with bloated casting. The Wackness, wisely, avoids this. It has no bankable stars (Kingsley and Janssen are as close as it gets) and the direction is no-nonsense, hand-held simplicity.

The only special effects are the graffiti-style title cards that introduce each month of the summer. Though they have next to nothing in common, I was reminded of Fresh, a fantastic streets-of-New-York drug dealer drama that was released in...1994. How about that! Levine's direction is hip, off-beat and meant to capture that time and place while demonstrating some attitude in the process.

Levine pulls it all off while not forgetting that amid the more personal and serious things in the story, there's some space for crazy bits of humour and visual panache. This might be the only movie you'll ever see where a Spike Lee-inspired fast-speed-first-person sprint around the city streets is led by a middle finger.

Even though the movie is set in '94, the tracks are all over the map. It's all good though because it's Golden Era. The selections range from the obvious Fresh Prince's Summertime, and Biz' Just a Friend to Wu Tang, Nas and Tribe. It's always nice to hear Craig Mack and Illmatic era Nas again and the sound of Total's Cant Ya See.

The Wackness has some new faces and some old faces, and what they have in common is that all of the actors are really good, really good at telling a simple but heartfelt story about how life can drag you down if you let it. However, there is always room for hope, and sometimes, we just make it so hard on ourselves that we might just choose the wrong option.

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