Tag: home studio
Articles Update! (recent articles published by Butler Productions)
by claybutlermusic on Nov.13, 2009, under Band Management, Career Building, Marketing & Promotion, Recording, Uncategorized
Greetings!
I wanted to make you all aware of some new articles that we’ve published elsewhere on the ‘net. Here’s a list of the most recent ones:
- How to use Acoustic Treatment to Improve the Learning Environment in your Classroom
- How to Build a Home Recording Studio
- How to Get Started with Computer Audio
- How to Earn Passive Income during a Recession
- How to Adjust a Bowed Neck on a Guitar
- How to Set the Intonation on an Electric Guitar
- How to Boost Traffic to your Website
- How to Get Paid for your Music
- How to Boost Band Revenue with a Merchandise Table
- How to Start Your Own Music Publishing Company
- How to Take your Worship Band to the Next Level
- How to Improve your Songwriting Skills
- How to Record Electric Guitar in the Home Studio
- How to Prepare your Band for a Recording Session
- How to Generate More Interest in Your Band with SEO
Other non-music related stuff:
- How to Cut Grocery Expenses during the Recession
- How to Compose a Professional Email
- How to Make an Insulated Cat House for the Winter
- How to Apply the Lord’s Prayer to your Daily Life
- How to Winterize your Home and Save Money
- How to Maintain Communication with Your Child’s Teacher
Don’t forget to tell your friends and bookmark! As always, comments are welcome. Happy reading!
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Making the Home Studio More Productive
by claybutlermusic on Aug.08, 2009, under For Businesses, Recording, Uncategorized
I’m writing this after taking a break from re-organizing my studio. It’s been driving me nuts for months, and the cleaning/re-organizing part has been driving me nuts for weeks. Yeah, it was that bad.
Prior to about a month or so ago, the most strenuous work I’d been doing in the studio was doing voicovers, jingle sings, and midi-based music cues. Those jobs consisted of not much more than one channel at a time that I could leave in a ready-to-record state. Here lately, though, I’d been noticing myself not being as productive as I wanted to be. I had the desire to work, but every time I started a project, I’d get discouraged and frustrated. It then became clear to me that it was my lack of organization and poor ergonomics that killed my productivity.
My family always jokes with me, saying, “Your studio is never the way you want it,” or, “You’re never happy with it.” This is true not just because I’m a perfectionist, but there’s also another underlying cause. When I began building my home studio in 2006 (three years ago at the time of this writing), in my eagerness to get to work recording, I began to set myself up for my future frustration early on. As soon as the studio would get functional enough to do a little work, I would get focused on projects and put studio organization and ergonomics by the wayside. I was so fired up about being able to work in the studio that I became shortsighted and forgot about being ready for when bigger projects came along. Inevitably, when those bigger projects did come along, I would spend so much time and energy prepping the studio that I would lose my creative drive. I would then either not do as well on the project, or I would end up passing on the opportunity entirely–not what you want to happen when you record music for a living!
That brings me to my current juncture. The frustration has gotten too much to bear, so I’m overhauling it all. Here are some of the things that I’m doing to help improve my home studio:
- Purging junk and organizing storage space
- Re-wiring equipment and patch bays to make more logical sense
- Labeling all cables and snakes
- Making a notebook containing wiring diagrams, patch bay input/output lists, and midi routing
- Pre-mic’ing guitar amps in the isolation booth to have instant access
- Putting the most frequently used items, cables, modules, and processors at arm’s length
- Networking computers for easier file transfer and printing
- Creating a “workshop” area for guitar repairs and cable soldering
- Improving the “office” area to more comfortably do the “business stuff”
- Organize client information and contracts
All of these tasks help me to not only be more productive with recording and composing, but it also helps me to be able to readily accept more work without the preparation headaches. Hopefully, it will help me to gain more work, produce more output, and produce a higher quality product. All of these factors will help me “feel better” about working in the space, which, I’ve learned, tremendously impacts success with any business.
If you’re finding yourself frustrated and unproductive, try these little tweaks for yourself and see if they help. Comment with your ideas!
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