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[nsmadsen]

Very good point Jaap! Thanks for sharing this!

Nate

[metorsummoner7]

What would you suggest as good digital portfolio for music?

[nsmadsen]

 metorsummoner7, on 04 June 2011 - 07:36 AM, said:

What would you suggest as good digital portfolio for music?

What do you mean exactly? What is the best content? Or what are the best tools to make it easily accessible? I use Soundcloud to post and stream my content and choose to use samplers to show highlights as opposed to posting full songs. This serves as an introduction to my work.

Thanks,

Nate

[Tom Sloper]

 nsmadsen, on 17 January 2012 - 03:00 PM, said:

 metorsummoner7, on 04 June 2011 - 07:36 AM, said:

What would you suggest as good digital portfolio for music?

What do you mean exactly?

He asked that question seven months ago. Surely he isn't still looking for people to answer it now.

[Moritz P.G. Katz]

Feeling like digging up graves, Nate? ;)

I'm sure metosummoner7 isn't the only one asking himself this, though, so it's vaild to answer that question. I'm using SoundCloud too, you can organize your tracks in sets and you get a good feedback on how many people have listened to your music, plus they can leave comments and share the music easily.

Cheers,
Moritz

[nsmadsen]

Tom - I realize that but as Mortiz pointed out, others might be wondering/asking the same thing and since his post somehow went unanswered I thought later was better than never. Since this topic is pinned (or a sticky) I view it as a long-term resource for the forum.

Moritz - Should I play Dave Matthews' Grave Digger while responding to these old posts?

[Moritz P.G. Katz]

 nsmadsen, on 17 January 2012 - 10:19 PM, said:

Moritz - Should I play Dave Matthews' Grave Digger while responding to these old posts?

Hehe - I was thinking of something more dramatic:
;)

[metorsummoner7]

I forgot that I had made this post. I create pretty much instrumental and I created a few video game related tracks. Shortly after I asked that question I started using SoundCloud.

[Jinksi]

Great resource thanks to everyone who posted!

[BradyHearn]

Thanks Nathan, thats all great advice, Im glad we have people like you on this board. I've been working on the 'getting my stuff out there' part lately to good success, if you have a sec, let me know what you think of my presentation www.bradyhearn.com

Thanks again!

Brady

[nsmadsen]

 BradyHearn, on 22 February 2012 - 03:18 PM, said:

Thanks Nathan, thats all great advice, Im glad we have people like you on this board. I've been working on the 'getting my stuff out there' part lately to good success, if you have a sec, let me know what you think of my presentation www.bradyhearn.com

Your music is quite good! I enjoyed it! A tip though - turn off the autoplay. It can make clients and browsers upset if their speakers are turned up then suddenly music blasts at them. Another helpful tip would be to set the starting volume to around 70%. This way the user can turn it up if they so wish. Nice gallery - perhaps add some captions? Looks like you got to work with live musicians - awesome!

Other than that - your website is clean and simple to use. That's a good thing!

Cheers,

Nate

[BradyHearn]

Thanks so much Nate, I took care of the autoplay issue and went over to a Soundcloud widget, which is nice because it isnt flash, so people can play my reels with ipads and iphones. Im not sure if they have a volume control on soundcloud, but thats a good idea too, since Ive been limiting my music to -0.1 dB, so it does come off as fairly loud. Also, over the past 2 weeks Ive had access to Lawrence Manchester's (howard shore's mixer) studio, so Ive taken the opportunity to to bounce every stem from my reel and remix in his studio after-hours, its made a big difference because I could actually hear clearly, both the high and low ends.

Thanks again Nate!

Regards,

Brady