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Audio Engineering Schools
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Audio Search Engines
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Music Associations
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Music Management
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Music Resources
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Recording Studios
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The Muse's Muse: A web page devoted to Discussion & links about songwriting including regularly changing surveys, songwriting articles, a huge list of links & songwriting organizations, a book store, chat rooms, sample songs, and much more.
The Mode: The Mode is a database of free classifieds for musicians to get gigs, buy and sell equipment, and network with other musicians in your local area. The musician's classified listings are sorted by area code (or country code outside the USA and Canadian area). There is no cost to place a listing up to 75 words long (200 words long for equipment listings).
Musicians.com: The musician's ultimate cyber-world destination. With thousands of links to record labels, music reference sites, online music magazines, other musicians and more, MLC is the best place to start your Internet journey into music on the web!
SingerCity.com: Singer City has a huge selection of voice lesson and singing guides to help any level of vocalist.
HearAndPlay.com: Hear and play has several courses available on teaching yourself to play keyboards in a variety of styles.

TheMusicRoom.com: The Music Room has a huge selection of sheet music and resources for artists of all types.
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| Assistant Engineers Handbook: The definitive guide to working as an assistant recording engineer in today's modern sound studio. |
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Recording Connection: No experience required at the Recording & Radio Connection, where you receive On-The-Job Training in local major Recording Studios, Record Companies, and Radio-TV Stations. Call (800) 295-4433 for FREE video or CD-ROM. Recording & Radio Connection has a training network of over 15,000 industry members, all who own and operate major Recording Studios, Record Companies, and Radio/TV Stations.
RecordingSchool.com: "The Best source for the Home/Recording Studio Novice!" On line technical help - free tips Also featuring "Recording School 101" Video and Handbook.
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Audio Recording Center: Your resource for analog, digital, home demo, sound software, studios and other recording information.

Top 100 Music Sites: Listings of the Top 100 CDs, Instruments, mp3s, Studios with links to all!
World Wide Pro Audio Directory: On this page you find the World Wide Pro Audio Directory with Links, Addresses and Pro Audio News of all major Pro Audio Manufacturers and related websites.
Audio World: Daily news about all aspects of audio, including professional audio, home recording, high-end and consumer hi-fi, home theater, car sound and the audio/music industries. The "Yahoo!" of Audio!

1212.com: The largest data base of music industry related web information in over 50 countries. To consult our directory, simply click on a category link in the menu, then a country and access a complete list of details in alphabetical order.
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Mackie Designs: Mackie Designs audio products: Amplifiers, Compact Mixers, Digital Products, Powered Mixers, Studio Consoles, Studio Monitors, Sound Reinforcement Consoles, and Sound Reinforcement Loudspeakers.
SpiritDrums.com: We are Australian custom Drum makers with the highest quality studio snares and Kits.Our clients include Baron and Baron Productions in New York as well as many top studio players here in Australia.
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Sam Ash: Musical instruments at the Nation's Guaranteed Lowest Prices. The online musical instrument mega store.
Discount Music Center: Discount Music Center is one of the largest musical instrument and equipment dealers in the United States, with over 10,000 square feet of showroom space throughout Central Florida and thousands of instruments on this web site! We invite you to browse our searchable on-line catalog, and always welcome you to call us toll-free. Our experienced staff is here to serve you.
The Mode-Equipment listing: The MODE is a database of free classifieds for musicians to get gigs, buy and sell equipment, and network with other musicians in YOUR local area.
Guitar Center: The musician's connecting point. Musicians nationwide recognize Guitar Center as the source for quality musical equipment. Thanks to their support, Guitar Center has grown to become the Nation's largest retailer of musical instruments.
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Sheet Music Selections for Teachers and Classrooms: Teachers can find great sheet music selections for their students at Music Forte.
Mix Magazine: Mix is the world's leading magazine for the professional recording and sound production technology industry. Mix covers a wide range of topics including: recording, live sound and production, broadcast production, audio for film and video, and music technology.

The Independent Musicians Contact Bible: The Indie Contact Bible shows you where to get your music REVIEWED, your songs PLAYED and your CDs SOLD!
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ASCAP: Welcome to ASCAP ... the world's most visited professional music website.
BMI: BMI is an American performing rights organization which represents more than 140,000 U.S. songwriters and composers and over 60,000 U.S. publishers.
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The Wink Winks: The vision of The Wink Winks is to manage and promote talented artists and producers, with the focus of making a positive impact on society. The Wink Winks accepts artist considerations from Skyelab Studios. |
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TAXI: Get Your Music To The Right People with TAXI: the Independent A&R Vehicle that connects unsigned artists, bands and songwriters with major record labels, publishers, and film & TV music supervisors.
MP3.com: Thanks to new computer and networking technologies, MP3.com can now provide access to music instantly. For free, artists can promote and distribute their music through MP3.com and, for free, audiences can play and download music from MP3.com.
Hip Hop Radio: Listen to Hip hop, rap and R&B music at WorldCastRadio.com - a free internet radio station. Find Profiles of all your favourite DJs, presenters and hosts.
Sounds2Buy - The New Home for Independent Music - Sounds2buy is an Unsigned and Independent Music download store. Download FREE loops and music samples.
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Skyelab Sound Studios: Conveniently located in New York City, in the beautiful Times Square District. Music production and more for singers and songwriters. Career guidance, Platinum credits.
StudioFinder.com: With over 5350 recording studios, StudioFinder is the most comprehensive online recording studio search engine.
Quad Recording Studios: For 20 years QUAD has been NEW YORK'S premiere spot for recording some of the world's greatest music. We invite you to explore our studios and meet some of the people who make it great.
Horizon Recording Studios: Horizon Music Group exists to provide the best environment possible for the creation of music and multimedia content. Mixing new digital and classic analogue technologies with years of knowledge and experience, Horizon's mission is to guide and develop all artists to the next plateau of their careers, and to record the best music the universe has to offer.
Chaffee Sound Productions: With more than a decade in pro audio and several hundred recording credits, the Chaffee Sound can be heard from coast to coast and even worldwide.
Where2Record.com: Where2Record is a free international recording studio directory. Where2Record is for everyone: Unsigned bands who wish to record a demo; Signed bands who wish to find the ideal studio location; Record labels who wish to find the best recording studios in their local area; Producers/Engineers looking to find out information on recording studios.
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| Dreamhire: Around the clock - around the world the best in pro audio rental -both sides of the atlantic (UK and USA) |
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What They Say...
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Songwriter: Akinori Nakamura
"I'm very excited that one of my song was recorded by a well funded artist. I believe my songs wouldn't been accepted by music industry people
without your supports. I'd been sending out my songs to the music
industry over the years, but none of them paid attention to my music
until I met you. I was one of the guy who believes the myth that if the
song was great, production doesn't matter. Now I have to admit I was
wrong. the production really does matter. You proved it to me and this
is the proof! My only regret is that I should have known you earlier. And I'd like to say thank you for providing me excellent services over
the last months. I'm sure that you are the best producer I've ever
worked with. And you have one of the most talented" ...CONTINUED...
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Useful Tips
10 Pitfalls You Must Avoid When Doing Your Music Demo!
Music Demos are NOT
like McDonalds hamburgers. They are not massed produced and they are
certainly not all alike. While cost is a concern when doing a music
demo, you must realize that a bad music demo is worse than no demo at all. A
bad music demo will close doors for you that you may never be able to open
again. Like anything in life, garbage is cheap and you pay extra for
superior quality. Do you want to be viewed like a cheap Hyundai or a
Top of the line Mercedes Benz? For an experienced music professional,
you may end up paying more than with a bargain basement dirt cheap
producer. But if you're really serious about pursuing a record deal
you must present yourself in a professional light if you have any hopes
of being signed.
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