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We’re happy to announce that we have new things coming for the YellYo.com website.  We are working hard on our EZ Gigger, which will allow venues to post open slots.  Then our members will be able to search open gigs based on genre, compensation, opener vs. headliner, lighting and sound availability, location, date, etc.  This tool will streamline the booking process and will hopefully keep bands from having to call fifty bars before finding out that only two of them are right for their band.  Look for the EZ Gigger later this fall.

Secondly, we will be streamlining the entire site to eliminate multiple areas of the site (public, member, venues, etc.).  We will begin making certain tools and features available to the public with our more valuable services still requiring a member login.  However, there will no longer be a “member area” that one has to enter to even view and select these tools.

As always, we welcome your feedback and ideas.  Don’t be shy either here on the blog or on our forums.  If you have a recommendation or suggestion for new articles, tools, etc., let us know and if it’s something we feel would be beneficial to our purpose, we will work hard to include it.

With advances in technology and the subsequent lower prices associated with recording equipment/software, many of us have moved into the realm of home recording. However, owning the latest and greatest software and equipment does not qualify us as professional engineers by any stretch of the imagination. When I first started doing home recording, I could get great sounds coming in using only a mediocre setup. But when attempting to engineer and produce the songs, I had a hard time getting the instruments to properly separate in the mix, sometimes resulting in one or more tracks becoming virtually inaudible. My first inclination when this happened would be to increase the volume on those inaudible tracks. However, this resulted in tracks that were previously fine now getting buried in the mix. Eventually, everything was inched up more and more until the final result sounded like muddy noise. This is the Clash of the Frequencies. (more…)