Jason Blume's articles, for example, from "How to Get the Demo You Need": "Advance preparation includes being sure your songs are as strong as they can be, and are indeed worthy and ready to be recorded. For those still honing their songwriting chops this can be achieved by getting professional input prior to scheduling the recording session. You will also need to determine the key in which your song will be recorded. If you are working with a demo service that handles the production responsibilities and provides the vocalist, they will choose the key for you. If you are hiring vocalists, get them a rough recording of your song prior to the session. They should be able to suggest the key that will sound best for them. It’s a good idea to test the suggested key in advance by having the vocalist (or yourself, if you are the vocalist) sing the highest and lowest parts of the song. Try various keys. For example, if you think the song should be in the key of “A,” you might see if it sounds even better in “G#”or “A#.”

Good stuff! Love Jason🙂

That was a cool show very inspiring!

I want to hear that Christmas song!

Fantastic

Ronan’s observations are always ‘spot on”. Always inspires me to remain open to learn more & compose / record simple & biggest best sound on basic tracks. Thx for discussion on panning - level, panning, subtractive EQ. Perhaps a great new Ronan T-shirt logo?

It was great seeing you guys at the PMC

From a newbie, thanks!

Thanks guys! Best! 😎

Thanks Will & Michael ... Will's approach to listings and using smart goals, very interesting. Also I like that "Navy Seal" analogy, even if the Seals might not agree 😉... Looking forward to Part 2

Thank you for the video and thank you for the great work over the years

Thank you for this one! Wonderful!!!

Her energy, enthusiasm, knowledge & personality are wonderful inspiration - Glad she will be at the RR! The new Software also seems very useful , & also encouraging more women to learn the “joy of composing” & freedom of learning your DAW- Creative & business. Phenomenal. Thank You!!

For me, the mastering assistant is for suggestions, not decisions.

i would love a paper book and will pay for it!

Really good info. Some, I've never heard before and never considered and I've been doing audio for 15 years.

Ronan and Michael, this is one of the best TAXI TV shows ever, thank you!

gracias Taxi! mi sueño es tocar el piano y subir los videos a mi canal.

Apologies but I have to take issue with Robina here regarding metadata for Sync. At 1:06:55 she mentions " that info has to be in your metadata. Period" . This statement is simply is not true. I have over 700 tracks in production libraries now and not one of them has ever required one piece of metada embedded within the deliverables. Whilst it's true that Metadata can be stored in the WAV file chunks ( often using the INFO chunk for basic information ), it's not standardised and most common playback clients won't read it. Every production music library I have ever dealt with has other methods for ingesting the metadata that negates the need to have it withiin the file, either via their own portal/platform as part of the online form you have to fill in as part of the upload process. This normally includes genres, moods, keywords etc as well as writers info, splits etc. Or the more old school libraries send you a spreadsheet to fill out. Having it embedded into the audio file is pretty moot as they rarely get read, are often transcoded for sub-publishng which can erase it all anyway and if your music goes into any of the big sub-pubs they add their own metadata that's distinct from what you originally filled in ! I dread to think how much time I would have wasted filling in 700 cues worth of metadata that was uneeded !

Thanks for the great interview, Robina. It's a good reminder for us wonky creatives to put on our business hats... You say you're not cool, but going from making dog collars to becoming a sync music producer is very cool !

Ok, next do a video on how many of his proteges died untimely deaths

Thanks for all this great info!!! Wonderful session, Robina!

Could you have a session on the Disco software??

Excited to learn at the Road Rally!!!

Another great episode! I don’t have to work that much, but I am always scheduled Mondays (bcz I show up?) so I have missed months of Live. So many great points- “a professional cue screening for $5”. Thank U both! Listening to the following Monday next.

Yes, I feel more secure with my songs copyrighted. Thanks, Michael, for all the music business education you provide. Even if my forwards never go anywhere, I'm not the same since Taxi came into my life. The knowledge of you and your team has really matured me.

Pls go listen to Crazy girl by M.c da rhythm

I'm ready

Thanks Marco for having me to collaborate on your songs, I've been sumitting to a lot of Briefs from the Library we worked with.

Thanks Marco for having me to collaborate on your songs, I've been sumitting to a lot of Briefs from the Library we worked with.

Just joined taxi submitted 2 songs in two days great community

I'm going!

Kiss In The Dark

Great insight I am currently aiming to join taxi I've have music on apple tv+ but would like to secure more placements and be part of the taxi community simon fowler south wales uk

Thanks, Michael and Marco!

Went in the Before Times and even as an introvert I found such wonderful sharing, fun conversations, music making and good vibes. I learned so damn much about songwriting and the techy stuff too. Go!

Peace and blessings my name‘s Waynejohnson upcoming R&B soul singer. I have a song on KZbin as well it called Wayne Johnson i wish all souls on Spotify Apple Music Pandora not an Amazon title. Thank you and have a blessed day.

See you guys there 👌

I wish I could have watched yesterday, but my internet server was down (for a couple of days). FINALLY back online! Sending love to my TAXI family!

Looking forward to it! See you all there!

Great stuff Taxi thx. Hoping to be at the Rally again this year. This will be my 3rd Rally. Fingers crossed!🙂

Very exciting

Good stuff as always Robin. THANK YOU ROBIN & MICHAEL.

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