Managing Recording Projects - Freddie Feldman  Freddie Feldman has been producing a cappella albums for eight years and he's seen groups running into the same problems over and over again. He's not talking about out of tune singers or boring arrangements. He's talking about money problems, scheduling, legal issues, CD replication, marketing, and more.
All the cool studio tricks and effects are just part of the story. Freddie's blog will help you make sure that your recording project happens on time, on budget, and looking & sounding great! Freddie oftens gives presentations/discussions on Managing Your Recording Project at Summits and workshops
around the country. Get even more details from him here in his blog and view his casa.org profile here.
Freddie is one of the co-founders of acaTunes.com, the digital a cappella music store. You should also read his acaTunes blog for more info about the music business and digital music distribution.
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Written by Freddie Feldman
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Wednesday, 09 May 2007 |
A Little History
Pitch correction has come a long way from the days of manually dialing in micro-pitchshifts on an Eventide Ultra-harmonizer, while the vocal is playing back live. This is truly the golden age of pitch correction, if there ever was one. When Antares Audio Technologies released their ground-breaking plug-in for ProTools recording systems back in 1997, it was really something quite amazing.
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Written by Freddie Feldman
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Tuesday, 09 May 2006 |
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Recording, mixing, mastering, licensing, manufacturing, and distribution. Wow, making a CD costs a lot of money! Also, most of this money needs to be paid before you get the CDs in your hands. Groups ask me all the time how to fund their album projects...well, I’ve got a few suggestions that will help you out. There are actually tons of ways to raise money, you just need to get creative. Obviously, doing gigs and selling previous CDs is a great way to finance your project. Here are some others... Be first to comment this article | Add as favorites (47) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 2227 |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 May 2006 )
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Written by Freddie Feldman
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Sunday, 16 April 2006 |
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There's a story about Rolling Stones and the recording of their song "Angie" (their only ballad that hit #1 in the US). The backing parts of the song were all recorded without Mick being in the studio. He comes in to record the lead vocals and realizes that the song is out of his range. Bad key for Mick. Bad timing for this little detail! What did they do? The producer, Jimmy Miller, decided to slow the tape down enough to drop the key of the song to where Mick could sing it. Then he recorded the lead vocals over that, and they sped the whole thing back up. Of course, Mick sounds like a little boy on the track, but hey...
I was reminded of this story earlier this month when a client in my studio ran into a similar problem (I won’t say who, but you know who you are!) They had the whole group come in and lay down their parts for a song. The soloist wasn’t able to come in until the very end of this one. When she arrived, the Music Director mentioned to the soloist, "Oh yeah, we changed the key of this one for the CD." This was a big problem, since the key she was used to singing in was already very low in her range. Three half-steps down would not be possible for her. Be first to comment this article | Add as favorites (44) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 2256 |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 24 April 2006 )
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Written by Freddie Feldman
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Friday, 15 July 2005 |
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First question you should ask yourself: Why record an album in the first place? This sounds like a simple and pretty useless question, but it's actually quite important. If you don't know what your goal is, you don't know how to plan for it. Here are a couple of examples of reasons to record an album:
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Last Updated ( Friday, 29 July 2005 )
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In December 2005, I produced and released the album 
