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.

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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

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.

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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

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THIS: Kim Lajoie

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Originally posted by Nightshift THIS: Kim Lajoie

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

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.

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?

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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?

Do it.

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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.

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Originally posted by david.michael Do it.

+1

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

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