Creating Your Next Hit Song at Bad Racket with Engineer and Music Producer Creating your first song together with me the producer can be fun. My name is James Kananen, I’m a producer and songwriter, and artist with a hands on approach, I’ve written and produced tracks for countless artists, some you probably have heard…
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 From Everyone At Bad Racket Recording Studio, Cleveland, OH Not gonna lie. It’s been a rough year. It seems like 5 years worth of events have occured in less than a years time, but we’re really hoping for the good times to come back where we can enjoy more of…
Writing, Recording, Mixing, and Mastering a Song from Scratch Writing a great song can be fun. You might think you can easily write a great song and make a million topping the billboard charts, but you’d be wrong. It takes a lot of effort, trial and error, and time and money to make a…
Free ACX Validation Plugin: Checking File Specifications Audio Books in Audacity Getting Audiobooks to pass ACX standards for amazon and Audible can be tricky without this automated checker tool. Recently I stumbled uponthis excellent article showing how to use a plugin in Audacity to validate files for ACX Audible standards before you submit, or…
Monoculture – Let the Seasons Breathe (Live From Bad Racket) Check out this song from Monoculture’s album Blueprint for Dysfunction. Performed Live at Bad Racket Recording Studio in Cleveland, Ohio. https://open.spotify.com/album/2U324O… https://www.monocultureband.com/ Filmed by: Black Valve Media Edited by: Evan Prunty https://blackvalvemedia.com
The Musicians Guide to Making Great Recordings Audio Interfaces, Analog to Digital, and other Recording Gear Audio Interface is the standard modern way of recording. While other options like tape machines do exist, the cost and availability of such systems is growing more and more expensive. Unless you have a ton of money or some…
A guitar recording will sound different almost anything you do. From instrument setup, to the equipment and how its used, to how the audio is mixed and mastered in the track will affect how the sound is perceived by the listener. Getting the right sounds in the Studio Getting sounds right at the source…
Musicians and beginner songwriters can benefit a lot from some basic music theory. In today’s increasingly competitive world, music theory is the difference from successful rehearsals, performances, and recording studio sessions for composers. Use music theory to drive your creative performance. You can develop using time tested techniques, step by step, using the same terminology…
Mixing and Mastering in the Recording Studio: Essentials and Fundamentals of Music Mixing, Mastering, and Music Production Mixing and Mastering is an art form, and while many of these basic ideas may be matters of opinion, many are time tested methods used on tons of great sounding and critically acclaimed work. They aren’t a comprehensive…
2019 at Bad Racket Recording Studio Its Lit Fam, we keepin it on 100, posted on the corner, east 23rd and Superior Ave Cleveland Ohio. We had a great time recording video for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and an awesome time with many audio recording, mixing, and mastering work. We have all…