If you’re anything like my students, your music and productions are in one of these three stages:
Stage 1 - The Zombie Stage
You can find your way around your DAW and enjoy tinkering with your plug-ins, but you’re more like a mad scientist than a musician. You use your studio like an illegal lab you don't want anyone to know about, experimenting with your tracks, hoping to invent the next Frankenstein's Monster.
But...you never finish any of your experiments because you’re not sure your songs are good enough. All of your songs are like zombies stuck in your hard drive graveyard and you don’t know how to revive them to release them into the real world.
You don’t know which song to keep working on. You don’t know which one sounds the best. Your songs are technically finished, but you’re not sure whether they’re good enough to compete with the professional music you compare your mixes to.
Every time you try to mix a song that sounds like the records you love so much, the experiment blows up in your face with boominess, muddiness, and harshness everywhere!
Stage 2 - The Shadow Stage
Your songs are out of the hard drive graveyard, but they only exist in the shadow plane. You’ve shared some of your music with your friends by using private Soundcloud links, but you don’t know if you can trust their feedback so you’re still too scared to properly release them into the world.
The real world can’t hear them because you can’t bring yourself to release your records. Now, not only do your songs haunt you in their unfinished state, but they’re also haunting your friends and family, who wonder when they are ever going to be able to hear your songs on their streaming services.
Your songs are like ghosts that haunt you every time you enter your studio. They stay in the shadows never to be seen or heard from, like a harmless version of those budget-rate shadow creatures in the movie Ghost with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore.
You keep tinkering with your music in the shadows of your studio but you never send them into the light of what they could become.
Stage 3 - The Salvation Stage
You’ve left the graveyard behind!
You’ve sought out the guidance of saviors who have gone through the nightmare before you and they’ve slain your uncertainty and self-doubt. You’ve learned to confidently finish your mixes and now you’re proud to release your songs because you know they sound professional compared to what you hear on Spotify or iTunes.
You’re ready to share your songs with the real-world because you know you’re creating great music you love.
You know how to navigate the self-release ecosystem and you have a system in place to help you succeed. You have a long-term strategy with your songs, and you’ve put thought into promoting them to your growing audience so you can continue to succeed with your music.
Not only that, but you’ve started helping others navigate their song shadows out of the hard drive graveyard and into the land of the living.
You share your knowledge by helping others get through the trials and tribulations you've already overcome.
Get to the Final Stage With Audio Issues Insiders
I've been paying it forward for over ten years now, sharing my knowledge about audio production to help thousands of home studio musicians and bedroom producers make a bigger impact with their music.
I'm not only familiar with the three stages above because I've lived it myself, but I've also personally coached others through each stage until they're confident and proud of the music they make.
In the last year I've been doing it effectively through my materials, coaching, and mix feedback inside my Audio Issues Insiders community and today I'm proud to announce that the doors are open to new members!
If you want to confidently finish your mixes and release your music, whether it's a single, EP, or an album, in the next 30-60 days, my Insiders community is where you get the support you need to make that happen.
Regardless of which stage you're in, you'll find a place with us in the Insiders community.
People are already joining, like Joby from Norway who just posted this in the community: