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7 steps to find a blogger who talks about your music

1. Make sure to look for supporters who are really interested in listening to your type of music or who have musical tastes that align with the characteristics of your genre. (In point five you will find something more about it)

2.Find the email of that specific person and not an email that refers to a generic association or mention the person you are interested in on Twitter to find out which email address you can write to.

3. Don’t exaggerate the amount of words in writing the email: the shorter the better.

4.Many artists or those for them , write very full-bodied emails pausing to tell the story of the group or each member: remember that however interesting or funny it may be, the blogger will have to write about your music and not about you or you . So before you start telling your story in detail, let your music be the first to speak for you.

5. What is good for reading: writing what kind it is. A preventive description of the sound that you are about to listen can be useful to the blogger, who thus if he does not deal with that genre or if simply interested will save time to himself and to you.

6. The pleasure to click for listening: Soundcloud, You Tube and Bandcamp are the best custodians of music listening, but don’t forget how much the image also counts. So any link that leads to a website, a social page or press releases, is welcome.

7. Don’t forget a photo or two and a personalized paragraph. What is it about? It is a real statement about why you think that blogger may be the right person to write about your music: it is a sign of respect, which will make the person concerned understand that you went to view his work, dedicating that time he will have to devote to you.

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5 TIPS FOR LISTENING TO MUSIC AT HOME

It seems obvious, but the first thing to watch out for is the support you are listening to. Since most of the music you listen to daily probably comes from a “virtual” medium – ie internet streaming like Spotify or YouTube, or digital download -, know that the highest quality of audio you can get is already limited to ‘origin.

Usually a digital download of iTunes is an AAC file (Advanced Audio Coding, an audio compression format similar to MP3 and generally considered better) at 256 kbps. YouTube uses 128 kbps AAC for videos in standard quality up to 480p. AAC and MP3 are called “lossy” because compression eliminates part of the information contained in music (based on “perceptual” algorithms): the low bitrate allows us to download content very quickly, but at the cost of depleting the audio quality ( for example, the nuances are lost and the sounds seem more “flat” and with less dynamics).

So improve your digital files! MP3 or AAC at 320 kpbs are an excellent compromise (for example, set the “iTunes import settings” customized: choose the AAC encoding at 320 kbps). Otherwise, if you can choose “lossless” formats, such as FLAC (very popular open-source format, also used by Bandcamp and many other services, you can read with VLC), WAV or Apple Lossless, which maintain the original quality of the music unchanged.

To listen to the best music, if you mainly use the laptop consider purchasing an external sound card, since the quality of the DAC converters (digital-to-analog converter, necessary to transform the digital file into an electrical signal reproducible from the speakers) it’s not always good – to the point of “undoing” the advantages of a WAV file over an AAC / MP3.

For similar reasons, if you use headphones, also consider buying a small gadget that will make the difference: DAC and USB headphone amplifier. would risk not making the best use of them. By the way, if you want to buy a pair and don’t know what to choose, remember that low impedance headphones (16 – 32 ohm) with a minimum sensitivity of 100 dB / mW are the ones that go best with battery-powered devices such as iPods and laptops.