Trailer Tools Vol. 1 contains a wide selection of sound styles that’ll help you maximize your music’s ambiance at your comfort. Sound designs range from refined booms to spine-chilling atmospherics; as well as tenacious whooshes and of course… the ever-famous impactful braams! All sounds are live-recorded and post-produced using the latest gear by the talented Maks Piszczek – who has also provided these very same sound samples to renowned and professional composers in the cinematic... -- read post

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SynthMaster 50% OFF 2 Days Only

KV331 Audio's awesome wavetable and virtual synths, SynthMaster One and SynthMaster 2.8 are available for 50% (with extra discounts available if you subscribe to their email newsletter and try their demo). So for around $60 you can have two gargantuan sonic tools at your disposal. Includes 1800 or so presets too. And if you're a glutton for presets, you can double that number by purchasing their Everything Bundle which packs all available affiliated 3rd Party sound packs, plus the two synths... -- read post

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Sell Your Music Online with TuneCore

Sell Your Album Online with TuneCore TuneCore is a low, flat fee service that distributes anyone's music or videos to iTunes, eMusic, AmazonMP3, and many other major download sites, while taking no rights and no revenue from the sale of the music. Artists are building careers, selling significant volumes of music and generating revenue while keeping their rights utilizing the new model created by TuneCore.TuneCore has distributed hundreds of thousands of songs to iTunes and other digital... -- read post

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GAJOOB Magazine's Archive

I published GAJOOB in print from 1987 to 1994 and then online from around 1990 onwards. Yes, 1990. GAJOOB first went digital as a Mac Docmaker-format zine, complete with sound samples in Unix AU format. -- read post

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Top 10 Must Have Instrument Plugins For Producers

I've been doing a lot of weeding out VSTs and arriving at a solid arsenal and Sean Divine's video about his top 10 really helped me. He's using Logic like me, but this should be helpful whatever the DAW you're using. Top 10 Must Have Instrument Plugins For Producers -- read post

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Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 (2nd Gen) USB Audio Interface

So I'm considering this audio interface. I hear good things about it. It has 2 headphone outs. I'm coming from sort of an old school setup; a MOTU rack firewire interface which served me very well, even recording into a very old iBook with OS 9 and Bias Deck II as the DAW. Now I'm on a MacBook Pro with Logic Pro X. I've purchased a couple entry level audio interfaces since moving to the new computer. An IK Multimedia Solo and a Behringer Onyx. I got the Onyx because I used to run a Mackie... -- read post

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About Homemade Music

Homemade Music was started by GAJOOB Magazine's Bryan Baker (that's me) in 1999. At that time I wanted to have a niche site filled with albums by the home recording artists I was featuring in GAJOOB. It was fun for a while, but real life took a turn and I took a few years away from music to pick up the pieces. At least as many as I could. I'm still trying to do that, to be honest. Now I've picked up this piece and I'm spending more time here. To me, Homemade Music is just something I love... -- read post

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Featured Artist Blogs

Loopers and Songwriting

I find working with loopers can be a helpful tool for songwriting. Check it out on Amazon. -- read post

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Finding Old Lyric Scraps

This morning I was looking for my clipboard so I could fill out a jury notice I received in the mail yesterday. It was on top of a stack of old mail which is sitting on a table in my bedroom which holds a rack of old outboard effects and whatnot. Clipped to the clipboard is roughly 25 sheets of ruled paper, the top paper consisting of the start of a song; one verse (pictured). The lyric reads: So sad, so sadI'm so sadDon't know if ICan be the same againOh, please, Lord, send him back... -- read post

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Crystal VST Instrument

Crystal is a semi-modular software synthesizer featuring both subtractive synthesis and frequency modulation (FM) synthesis. It offers abundant modulation control with over 90 parameters which may be modulated, multi-stage envelopes with graphical editors, extensive tempo sync of envelopes/lforates/delay times, built-in effects for chorus/flanging/comb filtering/echoes, and a band splitter for effects processing by frequency band. Not only that, Crystal has wave sequencing, granular... -- read post

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New Track Discussions

Here we list the latest tracks where featured artists discuss the details of their craft, inspiration and stories behind the making of their art.

Blind Mime Ensemble
Self Reflections
reflections vol. 1

This began life while playing around with a newly download freeware synth plugin called Podolski which is made by the folks at u-he. After coming up with the initial pad track I tried a couple acoustic guitars mostly split left and right......

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Bryan Baker
Change Your Space
Change Your Space

Words by Bryan Baker, music by Bryan Baker and Joe Maki.
© Bryan Baker, published by Blind Mime Music, ASCAP. All rights reserved.
Bryan Baker: guitars, bass, synthesizers, drum programming, vocals

This song started when Joe Maki was visiting from Connecticut and we were trying to get back into recording like the old days. I'd just started playing around with recording apps on iPad and we probably spent more time messing than playing,...

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Baby Fred
All Day Long
Homemade Music Vol. 4

Words and music by Bryan Baker.
Published by Blind Mime Music, ASCAP. All rights reserved.
Bryan Baker: guitar, vocal; Joe Maki: guitar.

This is a song I originally created on 4-track on my own. One of those things you come up with that sounds like it might have some promise so you file it away for a later day. I don't do that often, but that was one of those times. Later, I was...

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Bryan Baker
If I Fell Off This Earth Tonight
Homemade Music Vol. 4

Words and music by Bev Stanton, Lisa Moscatiello and Bryan Baker.
© and Published by Blind Mime Music, ASCAP. All rights reserved.
Bryan Baker: electric piano, synthesizer, guitar, percussion, vocal.

This is one of several remakes I've done of this song which was originally created in collaboration with Bev Stanton who provided source files by Lisa Moscatiello on tapegerm.com. This version adds a new bridge. It was recorded using ACID on a...

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Prior Squirm
Elementary Penguins

Bryan Baker: acoustic guitar, toy xylophone, toy saxophone

I have a collection of instrument odds and ends in a little cubicle below my recording desk. Egg shakers, various toy instruments, etc. I threw this together one day, quickly, starting with the acoustic guitar. Playing around with harmonics....

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Featured Home Studio Artists

Featured home studio artists have access to many rich media tools to build a robust profile and document their create work. If want to join me go HERE for more information.

Bryan Baker

Instrument Profiles

As time allows we'll add instruments, effects and things that apply here to this list. The idea is that with a HMM account you can can tag your music uploads with instruments and track the usage as well as see what others are doing with your favorite synth, etc.

AudioKit Synth One

Serum

Zebra

Sylenth1

Synthmaster

Triple Cheese

Podolski

Crystal

Newest Publisher Profiles

We add publishers to this list who produce content related to home recording. Youtube channels, blogs, etc. If you'd like to be added to the list let us know.