Sunday, December 30, 2012

Digital Recording Magic - Make Professional Sounding Music at Home on Your Computer!

I’m a producer just like you. I totally get off on writing dope lyrics, creating beats, and mixing RnB and Rap vocals. I also play rock guitar, so I like to crank my amp up and record tracks onto my computer using a microphone. Sometimes, I’ll just buy beats online and record my own rap or RnB vocals on top of it, mix it down and put out the song.

When I started out, I used to get the most lame sound quality when I did my final mixdown. I couldn’t figure out how to make it sound good to save my life!

In fact, you’ll probably even hear that in some of my real early tracks, you might find some online if you look hard enough… I have a ton of stuff out there.

I mean in a good way — my grooves sound like they’re coming from outer space now! Sometimes I can’t even believe how good my tracks sound.

After a lot of trial and error, I discovered the secret that makes my mixdowns sound crystal clear, even more than realistic – larger than life!

I remember spending days and days which turned into weeks and weeks on the same song, trying this, trying that, never being satisfied with the final mixdown for mastering.

My name is Hugh J. Hitchcock and I’ve been a working musician, performer, writer and producer for over 40 years. I have had songs I’ve written recorded and released on some big record companies, for some big name stars and producers, on some pretty big record labels, including United Artists, for one. I have worked with some big names in the industry. I can’t disclose their names here, because I don’t assume they would appreciate being associated with a commercial product without royalty agreements! A search on the internet would probably uncover the information if you really need to look it up. You can take my word for it – I’ve been around in this industry.

My close musician friends call me “the Doctor” because they view me as some kind of musical “mad scientist”! (Although ‘Super Producer’ is probably a more accurate name, it doesn’t sound quite as cool as the Doctor!)

I’ve even been able to get a song in the top 100 international charts, topping at #75 in the adult contemporary genre – a song I wrote, produced and promoted myself, 100% right from my own home, back in 2010! True it wasn’t a number one, but hey, I’ll take #75 over # nothing. Especially for something I cooked up right in my own room.

I’m a musician at heart, through and through, but my “real” job for years was as a software engineer, and I’ve worked for some big fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft. But that was after I’d worked the club circuits for a lot of years in my teens and twenties.

Those days were...

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