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Posted by cryophonik on Sep-09-2009 18:03:

Producer blogs - worthwhile?

Just curious to know if any you guys read or write music production blogs. I read them very seldomly, but I'm wondering if it's something worth adding to my website. Occasionally, I get an idea for something to write about, but I just wonder if it would be worth my time, if anyone would actually read it, etc. For those of you who do write blogs, how do you gauge the traffic? How do you get people to come read it? Do you allow comments/responses?

Also, feel free to post examples of blogs that you find interesting.

Posted by owien on Sep-09-2009 21:35:

i think blogs have their place it just depends on weather or not people choose to read it.

most people dont thoe and will just embark on the web page and move on

i will say if you're short on content and need to fill out the web page then go for it just keep it short and interesting

Posted by PutBoy on Sep-10-2009 10:16:

Me and a few other people just started a blog, it's mostly on DJing but it's on music production as well. So far, we've been kind of slow starters, although we do write in it pretty much every 2 days.

It's in my sig if you want to check it out.

Posted by Richard Butler on Sep-10-2009 12:12:

Something to consider is proliferation. Don't know about others here, but I find my mind gets overloaded as there is just sooo much on the net now, so many new tunes to check, articles, blogs, emails to wade thorugh, no time to find out about the best MP3 convertors, best way to share files - everyone is crying out for my attention it seems, and I just can't take it, arghhhhhhhhhh

Looking at a couple of production bases sites, one by Sandervandoorn and the other by Thrillseekers - they have hardly any traffic, and they are big producers.

Cryo - of course if you get satisfaction from writing a blog, then why not, but IMHO unless it's super good and carries strong sense of value - added and a 'busy traffic' feel, then I don't think it will have much readership - no reflection of you, just the way it is now.

Take Producer Cafe by Luke Desire - that's one superb site, so easy to navigate - something very very few sites achieve, very easy on the eye and informative, but little 'obvious' traffic.

IF YOU DO IT:

Some input for you. I don't get much at all from those tweakhead type tutorials - they are way to vague. Good for a noob for about 5 minutes, but really tell you very little of use. It can't be easy writing those and trying to satisfy varrying skill sets, but I have this feeling what people really want are those 'black art' tips.

For example a typical tutorial will say bland generic things like always mono the bass and never reverb it - well that's just total shite, as some real top producers do experiment with these taboos.
By all means say that in the past it was typical to mono / centre bass but go on to say there are those that verb and widely pan it to great sonic effect.

Don't know if any of that helps

Lucks

Posted by Stef on Sep-11-2009 07:49:

I used to love the J00f blog on myspace, he always had good insight.

Posted by Nightshift on Sep-11-2009 12:32:

THIS: Kim Lajoie

Posted by david.michael on Sep-11-2009 16:54:

quote:
Originally posted by Nightshift
THIS: Kim Lajoie

Wow, that's great...thanks for sharing. Subscribed to the RSS feed with Firefox's Live Bookmarks

Posted by DjStephenWiley on Sep-11-2009 18:04:

I would read it for sure. I'm more interested in production techniques though as opposed to the never ending synthesizers that are available. I'd like to see something that squeezes a lot of information out of a few products.

Posted by cryophonik on Sep-11-2009 18:20:

Good responses so far and I'm definitely leaning toward doing this, but not to fill up space on my website (it's fine the way it is IMO) and not to cover production techniques - those are covered adequately by people that are much better at it than I am.

I'm thinking more along the lines of something that seems to be grossly under-represented and misunderstood in the electronica world: music theory. But, not just the standard music theory concepts that one could look up on Wikipedia. I'm thinking more applied concepts specifically for EDM, analysis of melodic/harmonic content of well-known EDM tracks, writing melodies, bass lines, counterpoint, etc. all done in the context of EDM and related genres.

What do you guys think?

Posted by david.michael on Sep-11-2009 18:21:

Posted by static234 on Sep-11-2009 18:36:

quote:
Originally posted by cryophonik
Good responses so far and I'm definitely leaning toward doing this, but not to fill up space on my website (it's fine the way it is IMO) and not to cover production techniques - those are covered adequately by people that are much better at it than I am.

I'm thinking more along the lines of something that seems to be grossly under-represented and misunderstood in the electronica world: music theory. But, not just the standard music theory concepts that one could look up on Wikipedia. I'm thinking more applied concepts specifically for EDM, analysis of melodic/harmonic content of well-known EDM tracks, writing melodies, bass lines, counterpoint, etc. all done in the context of EDM and related genres.

What do you guys think?

Yea that would be sweet. I doubt anybody is or has done anything
even remotely like that.

quote:
Originally posted by david.michael
Do it.

+1

Posted by Energy_3 on Sep-12-2009 15:45:

well im keen to this idea. always looking for some good information particularly from this area of music production!

Posted by lay on Sep-12-2009 18:02:

quote:
Originally posted by cryophonik
I'm thinking more along the lines of something that seems to be grossly under-represented and misunderstood in the electronica world: music theory. But, not just the standard music theory concepts that one could look up on Wikipedia. I'm thinking more applied concepts specifically for EDM, analysis of melodic/harmonic content of well-known EDM tracks, writing melodies, bass lines, counterpoint, etc. all done in the context of EDM and related genres.

What do you guys think?

It does sound very good to me. What you mentioned is definitely interesting and an under-represented area. I would love to read more about those topics, so do it. please

Posted by DjStephenWiley on Sep-13-2009 22:53:

quote:
Originally posted by cryophonik
Good responses so far and I'm definitely leaning toward doing this, but not to fill up space on my website (it's fine the way it is IMO) and not to cover production techniques - those are covered adequately by people that are much better at it than I am.

I'm thinking more along the lines of something that seems to be grossly under-represented and misunderstood in the electronica world: music theory. But, not just the standard music theory concepts that one could look up on Wikipedia. I'm thinking more applied concepts specifically for EDM, analysis of melodic/harmonic content of well-known EDM tracks, writing melodies, bass lines, counterpoint, etc. all done in the context of EDM and related genres.

What do you guys think?

Good idea but try to make it as simplistic as possible. I know in your emails you did your best to dumb down the theory of chord inversions but I still really didn't understand what you were trying to say. I think a short (and effective) description is almost always the best way to describe something. When you start doing into details, you will *accidently* start using terms and talking about things that you think people understand but they really don't, and you lose them from that point forward.