Category: Music

10 USB MICROPHONES THAT YOU CAN USE TO RECORD YOUR OWN VOICEOVERS

Recording a voiceover is no simple task, a lot has to be done in the background in order to ensure that the voiceover is in sync and sounds good as well. Having a good microphone is very helpful for this endeavour. Both XLR and USB microphones are suitable but this article will be focusing on USB microphones.

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THE ORIGIN OF THE DIVERSITY OF MUSIC

We look at music today as a behemoth that has so many different forms, genres and sub-genres than we can count.But have you ever considered where all these forms of music came from?

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HOW TO MAKE MONEY RECORDING AUDIOBOOKS AT HOME

Why Audiobooks?

If someone asked me about two or three years ago,” what is the best form of consuming literature?”, I wouldn’t have hesitated to tell them it was reading books. Books have been a staple of any culture for hundreds  of years and and still remain incredibly popular even today. But there’s just one problem, books are in the decline. It is happening very slowly but surely, and the world dipping further into the depths of technology is mostly to blame.

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THE POWER OF MUSIC AS A DEVICE TO CONVEY A MESSAGE

It’s no secret that music has so many effects on those who hear it. In movies, music conveys a particular feeling or mood that is designed to compliment a scene. Try to imagine some of the iconic scenes in film, like that scene in the matrix where Neo(played by the legendary Keanu Reaves) dodges a barrage of bullets with such flair and grace. Now, imagine how you felt ,indeed, It was the music that set the mood and tone of the whole scene.

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Music: A Tool to Fight Hardship

Here at Silent Media, we believe in the power of music and the innate strength it possesses to heal and induce deep emotion – felt by both the audience and musician alike – through experience or expression.

The Jose Marti Bolivarian School is one such school that also understands the power of music. In the distance a faint bad-ump, bad-ump, bad-umping gradually reveals itself; children haul packages the size of overgrown lunchboxes through the corridors.

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Design Your Home Studio w/ Silent Media

Planning and building a home studio is quite a big task, no? It must take months of research and preparation, right…? Majority of novice artists/musicians seem to think so, often they see it as a gargantuan task. However, initially getting started is a lot simpler than most might imagine. After all, there are only a handful of basic necessities required to start building a robust home studio.

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Limerick and Rhyme, Of Timeless Design – My Little Pony

Hola, fellow jinglers! Here at Silent Media we like to remember the legends, of thematic song crafting, that graced the art before our time.

In our latest series we will be highlighting and critiquing the jingles that accompanied the most influential toys and cartoon characters of all time! Taking a brief look at history and analysing the composers behind the genius we’ll gain insight of what went into cooking these jingles.

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How to cook a jingle by Silent Media

What is the formula of Coca Cola? This and other answers are one of the best kept secrets of humanity together with the formula of eternal youth and travel in time, is not so easily revealed.

Do not worry, in Silent Media we like to talk about what we do. The recipe is simple to cook a jingle you will need these ingredients:

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Jingle Bells: Christmas Songs.

The best thing about Christmas is Christmas music. No, not really.

Every year the stores put on the same CD  with those angelic voices that hit notes with exactly the same frequency as Satan himself. All when your brain is blocked and longs for peace, tranquility and above all silence.

Maybe Christmas carols induce us to buy compulsively, who knows. Joking aside, we could not miss the opportunity to dedicate a post to Christmas songs, couldn’t we?

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