The Concept Method: The Tools: The Concept Method, #1

By Antoine Tramble

With literally thousands of music placements on over sixty television shows including, America’s Next Top Model, Washington Heights, Big Bang Theory, Last Comic Standing, Bring it, and TV Networks, CW, OWN, Bravo, Lifetime, MTV, VH1, CBS, and Nickelodeon. I've also worked with a variety of artist, musicians, labels and companies. Through this book you will avoid the mistake I made piecing together my first personal music production studio. You'll learn how inexpensive it actually is to have professional grade gear that produces commercial quality music. And more importantly, you'll learn the tools that are not necessary and that you don't need to waste your money on.

This book will take the mystery and anxiety out of purchasing music recording equipment. No more wondering if that awkward sales man really knows what he is talking about. You'll move forward with confidence, knowing you made the right purchases.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Antoine Tramble
• Release date: Dec 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9781519984418

Antoine Tramble

Antoine Ronel Tramble, also known as, The Concept Man is an artist, producer, composer, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and audio engineer. He currently lives in Sacramento, California raising his wonderful daughters and making a living creating music for Television, Film. His greatest passions are, teaching, parenting and creating music. Over the years he has had literally thousands of cues featured on successful tv shows including, nearly 400 episodes of America’s Next Top Model alone, Washington Heights, Big Bang Theory, Last Comic Standing, Bring it, and TV Networks, CW, OWN, Bravo, Lifetime, MTV, VH1, CBS, and Nickelodeon. Antoine has also work with a variety of talented artist, musicians, and labels. He has an amazing range of style, limitless creativity, and an exceptional skill and love for combining the technical with creative and anyone who has worked with him has experienced his charming personality, strong belief in excellence and integrity, and almost magical way of motivating others to trust their hearts, find their purpose and pursue their dreams. Beyond his world of music, he is committed to his family, a proud father and a loving husband. When not lost in his world of music, he enjoys, reading books, playing Halo and Fifa, watching movies, technology and coaching youth soccer with his wife. Throughout his life, he has demonstrated perseverance and an incredible drive to overcome obstacles to achieve his goals. His personal style is the original composition of a life lived through rich experiences and the true love of music and knowledge. He is full of determination, positive energy and the willpower to accomplish and overcome anything he locks his focus on to, and even as an underdog he is not daunted and strives for excellence and integrity in anything thing he is passionate about. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why” - Mark Twain

Book preview

Introduction

This book is a guide to building your own recording studio, which is the first step to becoming a self-reliant music creator. It contains the absolute essentials that you need to build a recording studio to create high quality music without going into debt. You will learn what equipment is and is not needed for your style of music, what to look for when you are deciding on everything from your computers operating system to what kind of microphone you will need. You will also learn how to build a professional recording studio on a small budget, as well as how to set up your studio equipment.

I Love Music

I love the process of creating music, and the happy accidents, failures and discoveries along the way. I love that I am able to make a living and support my family with one of my greatest passions. I love the artist, publishers, media companies, TV shows and filmmakers who have, for more than a decade used my music in their projects.

And then there is you. I love your ambition and passion to make your music. But I have to say, I’m tired of you wasting money on that producer that pretends he cares about the future of your music so that he can keep you spending money, or settling for beats that don’t quite fit what you hear in your head just because you are afraid to start all over building a relationship with someone new.

I’m tired of you having to wait for a spot at the studio to open up before you are able to record an idea that has been buzzing all day in your head. I’m tired of you having to deal with people that don’t take your music career seriously. And I hate that your music has to take a back seat to other artist’s on your label because there is only enough budget for a few artist at a time.

What I want is to see you have an idea for a song in the middle of the night and be able walk to the next room and start recording it. I want you to be able to practice as many times as you want in a day. I want you to be able to write, record, mix and master your own songs. I want you to have your own personal studio. It is time for you to become a self-reliant music creator. A beat maker that does not need to send his beats to someone else to track them out or get them mixed or mastered before he can send them in for a placement. I want you to be able to support your family and have the options to send your children to public school or pay for the best private schools. Time is money and its time you stop wasting both and start your journey to a self-reliant artist.

Why Listen to Me?

I’ve been making a living and supporting my family doing music for more than a decade. I made a decision in 2002 to take my music seriously and never looked back. I’ve had literally thousands of my songs and instrumentals used in television shows, films, and other media campaigns, and have worked with many artists helping them discover and take control of their passions for music. The truth is, I know what it takes to create music that not only I love, but others consider the best selection to use in their projects. The coolest part of all this is I’ve accomplished this with both a small low budget studio setup, and a high-end industry recording studio setup. 

I used to make music with whatever equipment I could get my hands on. Whether it was at a friend’s house or a keyboard I borrowed. I was hungry to make my music. But soon it got hard to borrow equipment or make my music at a friend’s house, and this frustrated me because I had so much music I wanted to make.

I was in the same position as you are right now. People can be flaky, especially if it is not clearly defined what’s in it for them. I had enough of the sessions I was looking forward to for weeks being canceled or flat out forgotten about. Yes, I could have just looked for more business-minded/professional studios, however, there was just too much pain and frustration associated with counting on someone else to make my music.

I started my own recording studio where I started off with about ten clients and made nearly $2,000 a week selling beats, mixing, mastering, recording local talent and photography, and designing album graphics. I pretty much did everything needed to help the artist get their projects done.

Because I wanted to be able to help my clients with whatever they needed for their projects, I had to learn many music software applications and music equipment to solve problems, this made my services even more valuable. During this time I made every mistake possible. I bought equipment and software I did not need. But through this I was also able to understand what equipment and software worked for which types of genres, which equipment was actually needed, and how much I actually needed to spend to get the quality I was looking for.

You will make mistakes too, if not the same ones I did. The truth is, getting things wrong and making mistakes is part of getting it right. It is in the mistakes and poor decisions that we actually grow and get better at what we are passionate about. This book is a guide to help you avoid making the same mistakes I did when I was figuring out how to build a studio that was ideal for my needs.

Why This Book for You

Music is powerful. It is one of the only things in the world that can both explain and influence emotion. And this music is in all of us. I believe everyone has the capacity to create music in some form, it just needs to be activated. The sad thing is that many people go their whole lives never hearing the music that is inside of them, never being able to truly express their emotions.

Since you are reading this book, I’m going to assume you have discovered that there is music in you, congratulations. However, the real beauty of the music inside of you comes from being able to play your music back for yourself and others. And in order to do that, you will need to be able to capture it first. That is where this book comes in. This book is about the tools you need to capture your music.

If you are a professional or aspiring beat maker, recording engineer, singer-songwriter, musician, or maybe you are a record label owner or manager looking to build a studio for your artist, you will learn something from this book. Heck, you don’t even have to make music to get something from this book. Whether you are a podcaster, radio host, or even a pastor looking to get some equipment to record your services, there is something in this book that will make you better at what you are trying to do.

You will finally be equipped to take control of creating your music. No more will you have to ask permission to make your music. It’s time to get serious about your music. This book holds the knowledge to help you build your own personal studio, and by the time you’re done reading it, you will hold this knowledge too.

Sometimes when you can’t find what you want to hear it’s just because you haven’t made it yet. Now it’s your turn.

Your Own Studio

Reviews for The Concept Method

[Chris · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Seriously, there are spelling errors and unfinished sentences on literally every page, and also some of the information in this book is plain wrong.
Also, it might be a good idea to check out the actual names of devices you intend to describe before writing about them.