chillproductions's forum posts 9

Not necessarily the most recent but that's one way to go about it. If users have a Pro or Pro Unlimited account you could pull from the 5 spotlight spots. We use playlists in those. So if users on Equipboard wanted to have more than 6-10 songs on here they could simply put them into a playlist and embed that onto their page. The first spot on our soundcloud is for an album that will be released on November 17, and it has 18 tracks. Sometimes I put single tracks into the spotlight but mostly I just use playlists.

Set it at that limit for website formatting reasons. Our soundcloud has 180 tracks on it. Would you really want us to put all 180 on our Equipboard page? :)

Someone had suggested promoting music via contests or what have you, but I have a simpler, and possibly better idea. You can already link to your Soundcloud page but how about a section on your profile a.k.a. Equipboard page specifically for certain tracks you want to showcase on this site. Enforce a limit of about 6-10 tracks. They can be easily embedded into whatever web code this site is running and the dimensions can be specified.

That's definitely a vintage 335.

Oh, and about the top producers getting videos that was suggested: Payola (pay for plays) rules the day in the music business these days, from soundcloud to pandora / spotify and even iTunes. If you're going to rate the videos do NOT go by the amount of plays on track. You'll need a forum here to coincide with the soundcloud group where people on this site can rate the music. This is the only way to keep this practice fair for everyone, else the people who refuse to use Payola services (Like Chill Productions!) will never have a chance.

I figured we'd join in on your soundcloud group. Just added the "Media Robots" Continuous Mix EP by DeFeX of Chill Productions to the group, which is also a free download. Enjoy!

I find that if it isn't coming then it's bad to try and push it. Do something else for awhile. Play video games, go outside, whatever. Just separate yourself from it and approach it another time. When I try to force a track it just ends bad.

I wouldn't consider using anything else unless it were Pro Tools. Presonus' audio engine is amazing.

For final mixdowns and mastering we use Presonus Studio One exclusively. It has a very robust set of mastering tools and the sound quality is second only to Pro Tools.