Home Recording Resources
* = sf.net recommends especially
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Magazines
Sometimes they are hard to find, and Google doesn't show a lot of them when you search.
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Gear
Places online from which to buy music gear.
| * BPM music |
They don't list a lot of their prices, but email them if you need something specific. They're usually a *lot* cheaper than everybody else. They'll price-match too if you find a better deal. |
| Musician's Friend |
Not the cheapest, but they pretty much have everything you'd want. |
| Zzounds |
Also with a large inventory, and they'll also price-match. |
| 8th Street Music |
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Forums
For songwriting, recording, playing, whatever.
| Songfight.net |
The Song Fight Forums are the place to go to talk about many things, including home recording, songwriting, live performance, etc. Friendly-ish group, always willing to show off their knowledge. |
| Harmony Central |
Gear reviews from "normal" people. Take with a grain of salt. |
| Home Recording |
Extensive archives, pretty decent signal/noise ratio. |
| Singer-songwriter.com |
Sparsely populated. |
| K - v - R's forums |
The big ol' software site's got some good forums on it. All about using software to make and record music. |
| musicianforums.com |
All things to all people. *shrug* |
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Artists
People who draw and paint real well and might help you out with album covers/t-shirt designs.
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Musician Collectives
Groups of musicians that have banded together to form some kind of community.
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Online Distributors
Places where you can sign up to sell MP3s and CDs.
| * CDBaby |
They'll sell your cd's for a reasonable price, and get you on itunes and other digital distribution places too! |
| Magnatune |
Kind of an online record-label sort of deal. The owner has to like your stuff. |
| Dollar CD |
Send them an album of MP3s or WAV files and they'll burn CDs and sell them online for you, for $1 plus shipping. You can buy your own CDs as sort of an easy super-short-run CD replication service. I hear they're not terribly responsive though. |
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Promotional Sites
Web sites where you can set up a page for a band, with a bio and some mp3s. Mostly horrible slut sites.
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CD Duplication/Packaging
Companies that will make your CDs, jewel cases and booklets and such.
| Sleeve City |
Jewel cases and sleeves. Decent prices, and they have stuff like slimline 3-CD cases for a decent price. |
| Disk Faktory |
Offer short runs, like 50 CDs, fairly cheap. |
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Merchandise
Businesses that can print up t-shirts, stickers, and other stuff with your logo.
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Industry
| Taxi |
Pay them to listen to your songs and send them on to A&R people, if they think the songs are good enough. |
| RIAA |
Pretty much the Devil right now to most of the public. |
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Industry Watch
Sites that keep tabs on the music industry.
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Articles
Specific information that has proven useful to somebody in the past.
| Microphone FAQs |
A compendium of information taken from the homerecording.com forums, 'cause people got sick of answering the same questions over and over-- the true purpose of a FAQ list after all. |
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Miscellaneous
Links that kind of look useful but which we haven't examined thoroughly yet, or which were highly recommended to us by somebody of moderate trustworthiness.
| Chord House |
Find out how to play any chord, on piano or guitar. Pretty nifty. You do need to know what chord you're looking for. |
| K - v - R |
An index of music-related software. Only lists stuff that either is a plugin or is capable of using plugins. But that's a lot. Stand-alone software, plugins, banks, patches you name it. |
| Rhymezone |
For finding words that end with the same letters. |
| lyricist.com |
Lots of links to articles and faqs and such. Looks good, but I haven't checked it out really yet. Could be full of crap. |
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