In case anyone wants a copy of our fine Mentor's work to listen to. I put the audio capture up during the playback final listen thru.

If you have new music you want to share to get some exposure, post it below! If you want feedback or have a specific conversation about the song, you can do a dedicated post. But if you just want to share something you've release to help get streams, post it below (and make sure you stream other peoples music too!)

Heads Up: Schedule Change This Week + New Weekly Time Quick heads up, gotta cancel this week's sound design and plugin breakdown call. Personal stuff keeps coming up at this time that I can't move. Sorry for the short notice. Good news, I'm gonna use this as the moment to fix something that's been on my mind for a while. Our time slot has been too late for a lot of you, especially anyone in different time zones. So starting next week, the call permanently moves to Thursdays at 12pm EST (noon). That puts it midday for most of you, way easier to jump on live, ask questions, and cook with the group. Thanks for being patient. Catch you next Thursday at noon for the breakdown

I use Logic Pro, Lets say I just finished recording a song. I have mono tracks for bass and each drum and vocal, But I also have stereo tracks for guitar and keyboards. What is the best way to export these out for another person to mix. How many bars should I put before the click track begins, Should there be any empty space before the click begins? What about bit rate and 44.1hz. vs 48 hz. If I bounce each track seperatley it makes the mono tracks stereo - is that a problem? Should I export instead of bounce? what about loudness of each track - should they all be at some certain loudness? many times I do a level mix then bounce the tracks so they are close to the volume they will be in the track? What else should I be thinking of? If I have effects on a track I usually send a wet track and a dry track. Then I also send a demo mix. Konfused in Kansas.

If you never resonated with it yourself, when you were creating it? Find a way to breathe human life into your music. Do vocal takes with intention. Create a mood in the room. Capture samples from your outside world with a crappy tape recorder and splice them in the track. Capture moods you are truly in at that moment. Capture moments with people grooving together in the same room, never underestimate the power of humans grooving together in the same room. Move real air. Capture memorable moments - good bad ugly sad angry and all in between. Make lyrics that mean something to you, remind you of moments in time, or of people, specific things, does not matter if the listener knows what you are even talking about, they will paint their own picture. Scrapbook your life in your song. This is the stuff that will breathe life into your music and make it unique - not copy / pasting one guitar line to repeat 32 other times, not using AI to write your entire song. I get it, not every piece of music is meant to be from the heart or meant to matter that much - sometimes its just business and thats what it is that day, and thats fun too, and even then this is relevant to some degree. But if you are trying to make music that resonates with people, make it resonate with yourself first. Make it hold memories of your life, of interactions with other people, like a photo album would. Record unique moments and relationships and human errors and vulnerability that cannot be replicated by a machine. That's what will set your song apart and make it translate. That's what will help your song mean something to you. This doesn't have to be done dramatically either, it can be done to varying degrees. Even just sprinkling a bit of this in goes a long way.