Limited Gear Challenge
There are many hidden costs in music, from gear and gear maintenance to recording hardware and software to web and releasing fees and more. But I want to address the fear of not having the right equipment and how to not let that stifle your creativity. I started with a $40 Radio Shack mic, Audacity, a laptop, cheap earbuds, and music partners across the world helping me. I had my piano at home and blank staff paper for writing. I had no tablet, no smart phone, so no quick capture apps. But I was creating. I was recording. I was releasing very basic scratch tracks. It was not ideal of course given the kind of music I would eventually create. There’s a song on a collab site that was released in 2012 that sits comfortably at number 1 in their chart at the time of me writing this. So what’s the point of this story? I made do with what I had at the time and didn’t let it stop me from writing, recording, collaborating, and releasing. My next step involved some gear and software upgrades ...