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New Site Enhancement!

Posted: 07.25.2009

Moonlight Multimedia's Web site is constantly evolving and incorporating new features and enhancements. Most recently an e-mail subscription form was added to the Contact page. Users who supply their e-mails will receive a notification when new content ... Read More

Great Falling Sky

Posted: 07.15.2009

Finally, after years of experimentation and obsessive nit-picking, Eric has finished mixing his self-produced album, Great Falling Sky. It's in the process of being mastered and it even has a cover (see below)! If you're interested in receiving an announcement when the album becomes available, Read More

Cover art by Robb Stout, © 2009

The Seldon Plan

Posted: 06.11.2009

The Seldon Plan is a band out of Baltimore, MD, featuring Mobtown's Mat Schulman on drums. Eric was on hand as an engineer for the production of half of their new album, Lost and Found and Lost, which was released this month. Get a copy tod... Read More

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Prepping Your Songs for the Studio (Part II)

Posted: 11.10.2009

by Eric Fuller
Originally posted on mobtownstudios.com
Continued from Part I

Adapting Your Song Structure for the Studio
Your band has just finished listening to a studio mix of the song that is most requested by live audiences. As silence descends, everyone looks kind of confused. It’s just not happening. Everything is played “correctly”, but it doesn’t really pop and snap like it does on stage.

Maybe that long build between the verse and the hook sounds repetitive. The volume increases, but there’s no crowd egging you on, no wave breaking into the chorus. Maybe the abrupt halt between the end of the chorus and the instrumental breakdown sounds forced and kills the momentum; the wowed audience – waiting breathlessly to hear you come back in right on beat – is not there to cheer when you do.

Whatever the specific problem may be, it’s only a matter of time before you realize an old favorite needs to be reworked if it’s going to sound good on an album. Of course, rarely do you have unlimited time in the studio and as such it’s rarely worth sitting around in the studio addressing a problem of this magnitude. If you get stuck on a song that is integral to the album you’re producing, it’s often best to move on to something else for that session. It will save... Read More