Wednesday, March 14, 2007

More (somewhat) Useful Articles

Record-producer.com has a bunch of articles on producing, a lot of which are interesting even if you're not a producer. My only problem with the articles is that they tend to tell you what to do, but not how to do it. Here's a tip from a particularly un-useful article. Want to know how to soundproof a door? Buy a soundproof door. Seriously - that's what it says. Here's the whole article:
The best solution to access is simply to buy a sound proofed door.

This will be expensive, but it will be worth it. It will probably have magnetic seals around the top and sides, and a compression seal at the bottom.

It will also be very heavy, meaning that the wall it fits into will have to be strong enough to support it.

A reasonable alternative is a heavy fire door, with the jamb fitted with rubber compression seals and extended all the way around the door, including the bottom.

To gain better insulation than a single door can achieve, a 'sound lobby' is sometimes constructed so there are two doors between one side of the wall and the other.

I know it's hard to come up with things to write about, but c'mon. Why not just include that in another article about soundproofing a room or something?
Here's an article for them that I wrote titled "How to Be a Record Producer":
Find someone who would like to be recorded - perhaps a musician or band, or maybe a poet. It could even be an author who wants to make an audio version of his book. Then produce a record for him or her.
I wonder if they pay for submissions?

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