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In response to the many inquires we’ve received about hosting multiple artists on one account, this edition of Tips and Tricks will teach you how to set up your Broadjam account to act as a virtual record Label.
The most effective membership for starting a virtual label is the Primo Mob. The Primo Mob comes with a hosted website that allows you to change the names of your pages and hide pages that may clutter your account.
First, you’ll want to upload all of your artist’s songs as well as a quality picture of the artist. After that, go to your Album Edit page and add a new album. Make the name of the album the artist’s name. Select a genre that best suites your artist’s music, or if they create many types of music, don’t choose one. If the artist is selling their music elsewhere online, enter a Buy CD URL. Next, enter the artist’s short biography in the album description section and click Continue. The next page will ask you to choose an image for the album. Choose the artist’s picture. Once the album/artist has been created, click the Add Songs button, and add all the songs that the artist has uploaded to Broadjam. You have just created an artist for your Artist page.
Next, we suggest adding the artist’s full bio to the Bio page of your Broadjam.com account. Another fun thing to add to the full bio is their picture. Make the picture small, 80 x 80 pixels, so that it doesn’t take up a lot of space and slow the load time of your page. A good example can be seen at www.djsportico.com/bio. You’ll need to learn how to add HTML tags, but it’s pretty easy. Go to the HTML-Images section of www.tizag.com/html to find out how to add pictures and learn other simple HTML tags.
The Bio page on Broadjam.com allows you to post multiple bios, which means every artist on your Artist page can write a full bio.
Once you have completed the Broadjam hosting wizard, Broadjam.com will send you a ‘Welcome to Broadjam Hosting’ e-mail with a new username and password for the administrative features of your website. After you have received your welcome email, go to your Content Editor and choose the Menu Editor. Here you can change the order, name and hide/show pages. We suggest hiding your Songs page, as it can be confusing with different artists and multiple songs in one place. You can also change the name of the Albums page to Artist or any other title. You’ll want to make sure that the name is not excessively long, as it can shift your menu and make it look unprofessional. If you have any questions or suggestions, please send an e-mail to customerservice@broadjam.com.
Posted by Broadjam on Oct 15, 2007 in Broadjam Blog
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Oct 24, 2007/10:55 am…I forgot to mention the name of the song: Seal The Deal. #25
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Oct 24, 2007/10:19 am
I hope this is appropriate. One of my songs has made it to the semi-finals of the IFImusic song of the year contest, and I need folks out there to vote for the winners in each genre. I suppose the best thing to ask is that you all visit ifimusic.org and click the “contest” button in the left margin. Scroll down to the semi-finalists. At that point it is up to you. You can listen to each song in a genre and then vote for it by clicking the e-mail button at the bottom of the page and typing in the corresponding semi-finalist’s number in the body of the e-mail. Hit send and you have voted. Another thing you may want to do is scroll to the bottom and just vote on the “Rock” genre. Ray Labella #25. In any case thanks…
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Oct 19, 2007/9:38 am10.19.07
New Chart Rise
Today at IAC Charts JOANPi’s songs ‘A Day at the Beach’ is on #33 from #37 & ‘Y1′ is on #311 from #333 placed on Monday.
JOANPi’s album ‘this is JOANPi - EP’ includes ‘A Day at the Beach’ & ‘Y1′, OUT NOW!
Do you have any news? Tell us about upcoming shows, CD releases, new websites or anything else you have going on.
Posted by Broadjam on Oct 4, 2007 in Broadjam Blog
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Nov 1, 2007/6:58 pmMy name is Patricia Cubas. The name of my song is “Forever In My Heart” (Patti’s Song). I wrote the song for my former husband. He was one of the NYC Firemen killed on 911. My plan for the song is to donate 5% to the Rescue & Relief workers fund and to for individuals who worked in that area and are now sufferering from health ailments.
For anyone who has lost a loved one, whether it be due to tragedy, illness or natural causes can relate to my song.
The music composition has been created by Cedric Whitehouse. He is an amazing artists from the UK. The female vocalists is Rebecca Owen and the male vocalists is David Saylor.
This is a heartfelt song about love and loss.
You’ll need the kleenex nearby.
Enjoy.
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Oct 22, 2007/8:57 am
Brand New Ranking
It seems JOANPi’s songs ‘A Day at the Beach’ & ‘Y1′ keep rising for good at IAC Charts! Now ‘A Day at the Beach’ is placed seven spots up on #25 while ‘Y1′ is placed twenty six spots up on #285 since last week!
JOANPi’s album ‘this is JOANPi - EP’ includes ‘A Day at the Beach’ & ‘Y1′, BUY NOW!
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Oct 20, 2007/10:16 amHi,
My newest song ‘The Fallen’ is available to download at http://www.broadjam.com/thefallen. It is based on the poem by Laurence Binyon ‘Ode to Remembrance’ - a tribute to those who lost their lives in wars.
I will be donating my share of any money made from the sale of this song to The Poppy Appeal (more info at http://www.poppy.org)
Please have a listen and if you like it please buy a copy.
My song ‘Lost In The Light’ is also available to download at http://www.broadjam.com/eleanorpurcell
Thanks for your support, hope you enjoy the song,
Eleanor Purcell.
(www.myspace.com/eleanorpurcell)
Nowadays there are so many different ways to record, mix, and master your music. Do you prefer hardware or software? Is there any pieces of hardware that you can’t live without? Are there any software plug ins that are your favorite?
Posted by Broadjam on Oct 2, 2007 in Broadjam Blog
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Oct 3, 2007/7:53 amhi peepznrg,
yes real guitar is everything they say it is.
it is fantastic if you can’t play a real guitar but are pretty confident on the piano etc.. its very useful.
if i want a guitar riff in a song i open sonar up and bring in the real guitar vst. record it and save it as a wav file. it saves it as a dry signal and in stereo which is exactly what i want so i then bring it into reason and just trigger it into the song then add fx etc and mix it in that way.
Its the nearest thing to an actual guitar software wise thats out there at the moment.
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Oct 2, 2007/11:27 pmI use Sonar 6 Producer as my main software with lots of Rewire and VST plugins. I love Reason and Dimension (a cakewalk plugin). I still like to use Acid 6 when I make loop-based tracks, but I use it via Rewire so that I can later add some live playing to make the track richer. It’s important to me that loops enhance rather than dominate my music.
On a side note, I find that a truly good song rarely need much in the way of processing. I usually start my creative process by opening Sonar and choosing a keyboard sound that inspires me from one of my virtual instruments. I develop a chord pattern, drum pattern or a musical riff and I take it from there. Songwriting is always my primary focus.
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Oct 2, 2007/9:21 pmI use a mix of 4 packages. Vegas for video and straight out recording of audio tracks for guitar, piano and singing. Sonar Producer Edition for VST plugin Midi composing, using EastWest’s Bosendorfer, Symphonic Choirs, Symphonic Orchestra, Ra, Colussus, Strom Drums and Miriam. Acid, for dance loop composing and construction of basic songs to use as backing tracks for other instrumentation and singing. Kinetic and Reason for dance/electronic music. I love the ease of use of Vegas and Sonar both. Producer Edition of Sonar has so many bells and whistles, that it gets overwhelming at times. But it does the job. I love the EastWest samplers. I use them for composition for music that I write for marketing videos and some short videos that I’ve done. Symphonic Choirs and Orchestra are by far my favorites. Just for fun, I like to take old midi files of choral or symphony pieces and put them through the VST engine. It always amazes me how close to a real live orchestra, it comes to sounding. For keyboards, I use a Fatar Studio 990 controller, Alesis QS6.1 and 7.1 boards for piano and a Korg Karma. If you’ve never played with a Karma or Triton, try it sometime. The sounds are amazing on them. I have two Washburn guitars (acoustic and electric) along with a Yamaha bass and a Ibanez electric guitar. I us an Edirol UA-25 box to record on my computer. I’ve recently purchased a Stealth Plug for my guitar that came with Amplitude. What a great plugin and way to get your guitar recorded on your computer. I also have a Zoom 234 drum machine, but I really love the ProDrum Works disc samples that I picked up through Cakewalk for writing drum tracks now. It comes across sounding like I have a drummer playing on my songs and these drum tracks have a “feel” to them and don’t sound programmed at all.
Stein, if you ever get a chance to pick up the Bosendorfer from EastWest, its worth every penny. And its on sale quite often now.
If anyone has never heard of EastWest, check them out at soundsonline.com to hear their samples. They are amazing.
David
roots reggae and dub music with Skankytone
http://www.broadjam.com/skankytone
Q - Has anyone on Broadjam actually made any money from delivering their songs to any of the listings?
Has anyone actually signed an a contract through delivering to the listings? - This should be interesting!….
I have some news about the Buzzybee video which is on my profile.
The Police here in the UK who i made the song/video for are launching Buzzybee on friday the 1st of feb.
The press will be there and we have two special guests appearing to help with the launch.
David Prowse will be launching the video. If you can’t remember him he is the english actor who played Darth Vader in the Starwars movies.
He also used to be the Green Cross Code man for a national road safety program many years ago in the UK that was broadcast all over the country and some other countries.
Also at the launch will be Jack Straw. ( he is the foreign secretary in the united kingdom) He will also be there in support of the road safety project dvd.
We spoke with David Prowse a few weeks ago and he responded keen to help with the project and he has also waved his appearance fee to do this for us. Which is very generous of him!
So things here are gearing up nicely now for the launch.
We have 3000 dvd’s initially ready for the launch which will be given out to as many schools as we can in the UK by the Police as they visit schools around the united kingdom showcasing the dvd.
Additionally the police are also in talks with large companies over here in the UK for sponsorship to make more dvd’s to hand out to more schools across the country.
Thats my news so far.
If you’d like to check the video out it can be found on my profile.
Bye for now.
Johnny