An Indie Musician's Diary Vol...

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It's very complex, difficult, expensive, interesting and fun to be an independent music producer. Volume thre... More

Intro/Before an Album Release
The Change My Mind Album Release Checklist
Album Cover Art Tips
Doing Music Faster & Celebrating The Small Wins
Branding
Paying the Bills W/O Selling Out
Preparing for Collecting Royalties
The Fear of Bouncing a Wav
TuneRegistry
Some Growth Tips on Instagram
Mixing Backwards is Key
Fixing "The Vine" Clutter & Effective Static Mixing
Submitting Your New Track to Playlist Gurus
Get Heard on Songtrader
1/3 of the Album Ready for Mastering! & Music Promotion Machine
Headaches
Getting Heard Using Testing & Secondary Advantage
Believing in Yourself
CDBaby & Show.co Promotion
Scheduled Music Video Promo on Youtube
Tips: Looking Back I've Learned
Instagram Stories Funnel
Week #46:Swedish Site, Rushing & More
Slowing Down on Wattpad etc.
Getting Placed (Synch) Tricks
Music Makes You Stronger
Jan 2nd, Social Media Stats/A Plan for 2019 & History (of my Music so far)
Promo with Gateways (ex.: Hypeddit.com)
Wavve & Buffer
Free Backgrounds for Projected Presentations
About Templates & CromaVerb Rooms in Logic Pro
Free Pix and Vids for Music Videos
How I Do Basic Drum Programming
The Rush to Release (April 8, 2019)
Getting a Static Mix Right
1M plays on Spotify?
Instagram Testing
Instagram is growing! (slowly)
ElisabethKitzing.com*
Free & Powerful Spotify Promotion Tools!*
Instagram/FB Ads
Making Your Music About Them
A Patch After Summer Vacation
Five Songs to go!
"Is it Really Worth it?" & The Hope That Keeps Me Going
Indie Songwriters & STRESS
Vocal Compression & Gain Staging AGAIN!
Mastering My Own Tracks; Pensado Tips & The 24 Track Rule
Grrr....The music industry!
Mixing Inspiration from Shawn Everett
Overhaul of My Youtube Channel
Confidence is Key
Rob Mayzes and His Amazing Free Training
Change My Mind Book Tips
The Sad Truth About Making Music
How to Wrap Up The Change My Mind Project
Dissing Missed Deadlines + A Genius Preset for Loudness (While Mastering)
October 28, 2019: Planning Releases
Download Gateways
Dec 2nd, 2019 My first Press Release
Social Media Stats Dec 2019
Mastering Stress
First Single Mastered as I Sleep & Graphics for the Promo
Uploading The Change My Mind Album
Last Minute Hustle and Bustle
The Music Making Hoax
Three Days Until The Album Release
April 1st: What This Fool Learned About Releasing Music
How Did the Promo Go?

Backups & MEGA

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By ElisabethKitzing

If you don't usually use a seatbelt when you drive, everything seems o.k. until the day you hit a tree. Indie musicians are almost always having trouble making ends meet and it is tempting to ignore the need for safety backups of all your music files but the day your computer dies you'll be glad if "your seatbelt was on before you hit the tree".

I have a Time Machine backup discs (one with a mirror and one time based), and two manual backup plus stems and projects in the cloud. I have a routine I try to follow that I copy all my recently changed Logic files manually to a red backup (2T) on uneven days and a black backup (2T) on even days, AND every Friday I do a week long backup of everything through my Time Machine. I add things to the cloud when then are totally completed. 

Now, you might have some opinions on how I do things, but the thing is this has worked pretty well for me.The main thing is to have some sort of routine so that you can salvage your files if you "hit a tree". 

There are many ways to backup and I can't/won't get into all of them here but I will name a few and give some important links to get you going.

Get a MEGA account. MEGA.nz is an encrypted cloud service that makes it easy to save whole projects.

Dropbox is a must if you are sending files to publicists or for someone else to master, for example. It is free if you don't have much but

I found this article particularly helpful:
https://ask.audio/articles/backup-logic-system-find

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