How to Make Music in Your Bedroom
By (Author) Nicola Slade
Ebury Publishing
Virgin Books
3rd December 2007
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Digital music: professional
Music industry
781.49
Paperback
224
Width 109mm, Height 178mm, Spine 14mm
119g
Become a DIY music artist Gone are the days when recording an album required a large, expensive recording studio and piles of ultra hi-tech equipment. Lily Allen's myspace video netted her no.1 in the UK singles chart and an NME nomination, folk singer Seth Lakeman made an album in his kitchen for e300 and has been nominated for a Mercury Prize. And of course, there's the Arctic Monkeys - winners of a Mercury Prize, a Brit Award and two NME awards, who marketed their album through demo tapes and file sharing. Nicola Slade shows how anyone can record and mix killer music from the comfort of their bedroom. The author explains what hardware, software and mixing equipment is required, and includes a history of the digitisation of music, advice on marketing and promoting your music and contributions from DIY music artists who have made it big.
Nicola Slade is a music journalist who started her career at The Fly magazine and has worked as web editor on a number of music sites including Mean Fiddler. She currently writes for Music Week. She is co-author of Download- The Lowdown.