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conversations.value: a title for a book about Discover with the genre: Arts & Photography, Music
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Home Recording For Musicians For Dummies'
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Home Recording For Musicians For Dummies
  Regardless of whether you have your own site, you can always sell your CDs on the Internet through other outlets. An advantage to selling your music through other online stores is that you can capitalize on the traffic that the store generates. A number of online retailers are out there, but the following list gives you the lowdown on some of the major players:
  Because the Internet is constantly changing and growing, you may find other sites that allow you to sell your music online. Use your favorite search engine to search for the phrase sell your CD. This gives you a ton of other places to consider when selling your CD online.
  An e-mail newsletter is an inexpensive way to keep your music on people's minds. Try to send newsletters to your subscribers somewhat consistently, but don't just send out the same message on a regular basis. Give your subscribers new information, such as a press release about where you're playing next or a link to a new song that you've just uploaded.
  To build a subscriber list, encourage people to sign up for your mailing list at your gigs and on your website. Or, offer them a free download when they sign up on your website, and put a subscription form on every page. (Check out my day-job website to see this in action at `www.stronginstitute.com`.) Always provide an easy way for users to unsubscribe from your list.
  If you're serious about sending out an e-mail newsletter, an e-mail service provider (ESP) can collect and manage addresses and send out your messages. The advantages of using an e-mail service provider include ease of use, but the most important is that a good ESP will help your messages get to your subscriber. Sending e-mails directly from your e-mail account can get your messages blocked — and if the e-mail host (such as Gmail or Yahoo!) labels you as spam, they will ban your messages. The rules on this get pretty complicated, and trying to keep up with changes and be compliant is a fulltime job.
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conversations.value: Give me three more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: If both beats play at exactly the same time, you're done. If not, just click the Undo button and try again.
  If you don't have a waveform editor, you eliminate the time delay by listening. You can start by picking a time, 20 ms for instance, and deleting it from the front of the tape deck–enhanced tracks. With a little experimenting and a dose of patience, you can find the right amount to cut. Make a note of this amount because this number will be the same the next time you do this procedure.
  If you use a drum machine or an electronic drum set to play your drum rhythms, you can make these rhythms much fatter by layering one sound on top of another. Likewise, you can use this technique to add sampled drum sounds to your acoustic drum tracks to fatten them as well.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Listen.
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conversations.value: If both beats play at exactly the same time, you're done. If not, just click the Undo button and try again. 
  If you don't have a waveform editor, you eliminate the time delay by listening. You can start by picking a time, 20 ms for instance, and deleting it from the front of the tape deck–enhanced tracks. Listen and make any adjustments from there. With a little experimenting and a dose of patience, you can find the right amount to cut. Make a note of this amount because this number will be the same the next time you do this procedure. 
  If you use a drum machine or an electronic drum set to play your drum rhythms, you can make these rhythms much fatter by layering one sound on top of another. Likewise, you can use this technique to add sampled drum sounds to your acoustic drum tracks to fatten them as well.
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: The downside to tapping the inserts on your mixer is that your EQ or fader doesn't affect the signal, so make sure that you get the best sound you can from your instrument and get the levels going into the mixer exactly how you want them going to tape.
  If you're like most home recordists, you record most of your drum tracks with a drum machine or electronic drum set. You may find them thin-sounding or a bit stiff. A good remedy for both the thinness and stiffness can be over-dubbing (adding separate tracks) some real drums or cymbals to add to the electronic ones.
  For example, you can add real hi-hats to a rock song. Eliminate the drum machine hi-hats, keep the electronic kick and snare, and play the hi-hat part to the other drums. In many cases, the variable nature of the hi-hats is what creates the feel of the drumming. I discuss overdubbing in detail in Chapter 11.
  Get your instruments, mics, and levels set before you start to rehearse your part. Then when you start to practice, press the Record button. You may be surprised when you catch the perfect performance before you plan to record a serious take.
  Along the same lines of recording your rehearsals, don't be so hooked on getting every note just right that you miss the feel of a performance. Listen to some of the greatest records ever made and you can hear little mistakes. In fact, it's those little mistakes that often make those records so great. So before you go Autotuning and editing the life out of your music, give it a good listen and see whether that note you want to fix is what gives the part its character.
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conversations.value: Delete the first sentence.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: If you're like most home recordists, you record most of your drum tracks with a drum machine or electronic drum set. You may find them thin-sounding or a bit stiff. A good remedy for both the thinness and stiffness can be over-dubbing (adding separate tracks) some real drums or cymbals to add to the electronic ones.
  For example, you can add real hi-hats to a rock song. Eliminate the drum machine hi-hats, keep the electronic kick and snare, and play the hi-hat part to the other drums. In many cases, the variable nature of the hi-hats is what creates the feel of the drumming. I discuss overdubbing in detail in Chapter 11.
  Get your instruments, mics, and levels set before you start to rehearse your part. Then when you start to practice, press the Record button. You may be surprised when you catch the perfect performance before you plan to record a serious take.
  Along the same lines of recording your rehearsals, don't be so hooked on getting every note just right that you miss the feel of a performance. Listen to some of the greatest records ever made and you can hear little mistakes. In fact, it's those little mistakes that often make those records so great. So before you go Autotuning and editing the life out of your music, give it a good listen and see whether that note you want to fix is what gives the part its character.