http://www.davidkershenbaum.com Davids Music Pro Opinion Fri, 14 May 2010 16:37:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A great mix is like eating rich vanilla ice cream added to a warm triple fudge brownie. It’s the perfect combination of elements and textures, almost everybody loves it and it delivers incredible taste. A great mix can turn a great vocal performance into a “star vocal performance” and pull ... http://www.davidkershenbaum.com/2010/05/14/6-common-mistakes-to-avoid-when-mixing/ You’re ready to make a record. You got the songs, the lyrics, and the arrangements. It’s time to get started, so what should you be considering… how, when and where you are going to record your songs? First, no matter how basic it may seem, you need to ask yourself the ... http://www.davidkershenbaum.com/2010/05/14/7-tips-for-deciding-how-and-where-to-record-your-next-project/ Today, Can You Be A Recording Artist After 30? One of the most difficult things I had to do as an A&R executive pass on a great artist that I knew could be huge just because they were past the age of 30. It was heartbreaking for them and for me ... http://www.davidkershenbaum.com/2010/05/14/can-you-be-a-recording-artist-after-30/ You can actually smell the fear permeating the hallowed halls and boardrooms of the major record companies today. Their once formidable generals seem confused and without direction. Put simply, they are frozen, stuck if you may, forced to sail a large sinking ship in a much smaller pond. They will ... http://www.davidkershenbaum.com/2010/05/14/31/ Ok, so you got a deal. You got a budget. Sure it’s not the budget of yesteryear but it’s enough to make a record. Now you have a decision to make…how and where are you going to record your record? Friends in other bands say that you can get a ... http://www.davidkershenbaum.com/2010/05/14/8-reasons-why-to-consider-a-commecial-recording-studio-for-your-next-project/ Everywhere you look the story is the same…gloom and doom of not only the major labels shrinking grasp of the record business, but for the whole economy. We hear there is massive unemployment, we watch industrial icons like the “big three” automakers fall into financial collapse, blah, blah, blah…. the ... http://www.davidkershenbaum.com/2008/12/14/your-time-is-right-now/ I'm not much of a political guy. In the past, I paid little attention to the candidates and their platforms thinking one was going to be about the same as the next with minor differences.  How wrong I have been. As you know, I am all about emotion and touching ... http://www.davidkershenbaum.com/2008/08/26/obama-and-our-future/ I was clicking around Napster and came across Duffy's new track "Mercy". Wow...it got to me! It didn't have any of the sameness of the hit music of today. It was FRESH and BELIEVABLE. It hit me the way music used to capture me before the sample/ MIDI tracks ... http://www.davidkershenbaum.com/2008/05/20/duffy-pop-music-with-an-attitude/ The process of breaking new artists hasn’t changed in a few decades but now with a new “”e-era” the old models are no longer working, radio isn’t the primary way to break those artists and the majors are in serious trouble with the new game for exposing new music shifting ... http://www.davidkershenbaum.com/2008/02/05/the-ten-most-common-mistakes-new-unsigned-artist-make/ The first step in making a hit record is not to try to hard to make one. You see, I have found that some of the biggest hits have not been predictable, stiff, forced or sometimes even planned. In the heyday when Radio was breaking artists, a 3:30 minute track ... http://www.davidkershenbaum.com/2008/01/06/how-to-make-a-hit-record/