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Pop Quiz: Who Is The Largest Employer Of Full-Time Musicians In The U.S.?

Whether you’re home all day enjoying the holiday with family and friends or your organization is putting on an event today, try to take a few moments to remember the reason for the holiday. Furthermore, take a moment to remember that the single largest employer of full-time professional musicians is the United States Armed Forces. And that doesn’t even include the multitude of administrative and support personnel! Band Facts [fivecol_one][/fivecol_one] [fivecol_four_last] The United States Air …

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More Changes Coming To Your Twitter Timeline

In a blog post on May 24th, Twitter announced a number of new changes to what will count towards your 140 character limit when tweeting. These changes aren’t live yet, but according to the post, “will be available in the coming months.” The changes to counts affect: Replies When you reply to a tweet, the usernames you’re replying to will no longer count toward the 140-character limit. Note that this is ONLY for replies, as …

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Let’s Talk About Lighting

With 4k video now a common feature in most current generation smartphones, traditional impediments to making quality videos (like expensive digital cameras) are rapidly disappearing. But just becasue you have 4k video at your fingertips doesn’t mean they are going to look great and one of the most common areas where videos fall short is lighting. Simply put, lighting can make or break the quality of your video. Good lighting can make a video go from “who …

Podcasting Distribution

ArtsHacker’s Guide to Podcasting: Distribution

We covered hardware and software in the previous two installments of this podcasting series. Today we dive into distribution for your podcast, which is perhaps the most complicated of the three topics. This is an in-depth post with a lot of technical terminology.  I have hyperlinked many terms for further reading, but feel free to email me at doublebassblog@mac.com if you’d like any further clarification about any of the steps described here. Part I: Publishing Podcast …