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	<description>Tips on Songwriting, Home Recording and Live Sound from the Cheap Advice Guy</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Q&#038;A: Achieving Stereo &#8220;Fullness&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2010/07/22/qa-achieving-stereo-fullness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheCheapAdviceGuy</dc:creator>
		
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Dear Cheap Advice Guy,
I&#8217;m trying to do a simple pan. I laid out 3 tracks with the entire song on each track.  I put one track to the left, one to the right, and one in the center. When I listened to it on my home receiver it sounded no different than before. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use Your Laptop As A Synthesizer - Live!</title>
		<link>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2010/06/22/use-your-laptop-as-a-synthesizer-live/</link>
		<comments>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2010/06/22/use-your-laptop-as-a-synthesizer-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheCheapAdviceGuy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you use your laptop and your favorite recording software as the basis for your home studio (like I do), you are accustomed to the idea of playing your studio keyboard and recording the part as a MIDI track, giving you the flexibility of assigning a new voice to the already-played part right up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use Velcro To Keep Your Gear In Place</title>
		<link>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2010/05/22/use-velcro-to-keep-your-gear-in-place/</link>
		<comments>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2010/05/22/use-velcro-to-keep-your-gear-in-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 10:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheCheapAdviceGuy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Home Recording]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/?p=115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, I admit it: I tend to be compulsively neat. Not to the point of mania, mind you, but I do like to tie up my cables in a harness, arrange my gear neatly, and replace my guitar strings in alphabetical order. (OK, I was kidding about that last one.)
Just as duct tape is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mini-Tip: Use Dynamic Mics Onstage</title>
		<link>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2010/01/22/mini-tip-use-dynamic-mics-onstage/</link>
		<comments>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2010/01/22/mini-tip-use-dynamic-mics-onstage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheCheapAdviceGuy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Live Sound]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[equipment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[microphones]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When your band starts looking into microphones to use onstage, one thing you will notice right away is that there are two kinds of mics in wide use: dynamic mics and condenser mics. Condenser mics tend to be more expensive (sometimes much more expensive), and their sensitivity and frequency-response specs tend to be better than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mini-Tip: Immerse Yourself, Then Write Your Song</title>
		<link>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2009/12/18/mini-tip-immerse-yourself-then-write-your-song/</link>
		<comments>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2009/12/18/mini-tip-immerse-yourself-then-write-your-song/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheCheapAdviceGuy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Songwriting]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/?p=112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In language learning, there is a technique called immersion, in which the student spends her time surrounded only by people speaking the new language.  The idea is to force the brain to quickly burn all kinds of new neural pathways as necessity becomes the mother of quick learning. Over time, the new language begins to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Recorder! It&#8217;s an Interface! It&#8217;s the Zoom R16!</title>
		<link>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2009/11/20/its-a-recorder-its-an-interface-its-the-zoom-r16/</link>
		<comments>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2009/11/20/its-a-recorder-its-an-interface-its-the-zoom-r16/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheCheapAdviceGuy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I got into computerized recording fairly recently, finally scrapping my trusty (or more accurately, dying) Yamaha MD8 (an 8-track MiniDisc recorder) and substituting a MacBook laptop running GarageBand, Logic Express, and Cubase. A quick rainy weekend spent rewiring the whole studio and I was ready to go!
To get audio in and out of the laptop, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use Sound Effects In Your Live Shows!</title>
		<link>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2009/10/23/use-sound-effects-in-your-live-shows/</link>
		<comments>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2009/10/23/use-sound-effects-in-your-live-shows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheCheapAdviceGuy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Live Sound]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an easy way to put some &#8220;zing&#8221; into your live shows and to make your band stand out from the crowd.  Liven things up and create a cool mood with sound effects! All you need is a spare mixer input, a portable mp3 player loaded with sound-effect files, and a sound man (or at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Try Writing the Lyrics First</title>
		<link>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2009/09/25/try-writing-the-lyrics-first/</link>
		<comments>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2009/09/25/try-writing-the-lyrics-first/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheCheapAdviceGuy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Songwriting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[chords]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lyrics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/?p=109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written hundreds of songs during my career as an amateur songwriter, some good, some bad, some really good, some really bad, but there is one thing that almost all of these songs have in common: I wrote the chords first, then I came up with lyrics and a melody to go with them. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give Your Sound Man A Proper Set List!</title>
		<link>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2009/08/28/give-your-sound-man-a-proper-set-list/</link>
		<comments>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2009/08/28/give-your-sound-man-a-proper-set-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheCheapAdviceGuy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Live Sound]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/?p=106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the band I run sound for, Rusty Strings, there are three singers and two lead instruments, namely guitar and keyboard (the keyboard player also plays flute on some songs). Each different combination of lead vocalist, harmony vocalist, backup singers, and lead part(s) calls for a slightly different mixer setup: turn Singer 1 up and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuck For Lyrics? Use A Poem!</title>
		<link>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2009/08/14/stuck-for-lyrics-use-a-poem/</link>
		<comments>http://cheapadviceonmusic.com/2009/08/14/stuck-for-lyrics-use-a-poem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheCheapAdviceGuy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;d really like to record a shiny new song but you just don&#8217;t have any decent lyrics on hand, I say don&#8217;t let that stop you. Try borrowing ready-made lyrics from a poem, the more obscure the better. You don&#8217;t want people recognizing your source - unless of course you do!
I have recorded a [...]]]></description>
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