4 Tips to Keep in Mind While Looking for a Mastering Professional

A great singer along with a combination of good music can make a great musical composition. Recording a song requires necessary equipment that can capture the voice as well as the music and the result is a great demo. Despite good vocals and music, there are chances of a recording to have disturbances in the background and modulations in the voice throughout the song. Audio mastering is something that allows a professional technician to take up the demonstration. With necessary equipment and software, one can acquire perfection. Before hiring a professional who can perform such mastering, one needs to keep in mind certain merits that the professional should possess.

• A trained ear - The professional who would perform the necessary corrections should be experienced in what they are to do. They should have the ability to distinguish between the actual song and the background noises that are unwanted. A professional who has been in the industry and has the necessary experience will be able to master the demo well and bring out perfection by removing such disturbances and making them sound amazing.

How to Find the Right Concert Venues

Booking a show in your hometown is easy. You know the clubs that are good for your band. However, if you are heading to a new city, you have to do some homework in order to book the best concert venues for your band.

Capacity

When you are looking for a place to play in a new city, you need to have a realistic understanding of your draw. This number is important when it comes to booking concert venues. You always want to book a site that has a capacity for one less than your expected draw. For example, if you know you can get 50 people in the door, book a place that only has a capacity for 49. You want to sell the place out. It's better for your career to sell out a smaller venue than to have a larger one only two-thirds full. If you aren't really well known outside of your hometown, start by teaming up with local acts that will help improve the show's attendance.

Atmosphere

You need to take into account what type of music your band plays and make sure it's in tune with the atmosphere of the place that you are booking. For example, if your band is a hard metal band, don't book a coffee shop. Similarly, adult contemporary singer/songwriters most certainly don't want to be at a club geared towards head-bangers.

What Your Paw Print Tattoo Means

Paw print tattoos are loved by many and whereas some just have them inked for beauty some have them for a reason. They have deeper meanings to some with the most common being a sign of moving forward, hence the paws are designed to represent a moving animal. Such tattoos have a series of paws progressively getting smaller and smaller and the walk continues. The other meaning could be the love for a pet and the pet could be alive or dead. They are also done in memory of children with each paw representing one child. The meaning depends on what the person wearing the tattoo wants to represent.

Apart from the above, paw print tattoos can go to show personal strengths and virtues, depending on the characteristics of the animal whose paws have been selected. There are so many pawed animals apart from your cat and dog and by knowing what each animal paw symbolizes, you can choose the print that best describes you.

The Benefits of Balanced Content

Everything needs to be balanced. Our diets, our lives, the tires on our cars. Although we may overdue it on the pizza on occasion or work more than we should more frequently then we like, we all know and understand this reality. Even when our diets or lives are out of balance we typically notice and make a concerted effort to level back out in a reasonable period of time.

So balancing content?

This may seem like a counterintuitive concept but let me explain. In my global work with leading speakers, authors, and thought leaders, I've noticed that most content is out of balance. Authors and thought leaders have a tendency or a bias. They are either incredibly academic or hyper focused on business, and this makes sense, given that many thought leaders come from either the hallowed halls of academia or the shining towers of the corporate world. Their world view and perspectives are shaped by their experiences.

Balanced Content

Now there's nothing inherently wrong with leaning towards business or academia. The content market admires, appreciates, and consumes content that leans in either direction. That being said, the best content I've seen is balanced. It has hard data to support the theories and it is peppered with stories and anecdotes based on the content's real world business application. All too often I've heard academics snobbishly dismiss a business book written by a world renowned CEO because it doesn't have an academic underpinning or data. I've also heard many C level execs discount the potential value of content that comes from academia as they claim that it wouldn't work in "the real world" of business.

In This Business, Your Reputation Is Everything

It is no secret that that there is often a negative stereotype when it comes to lawyers. Negative lawyer jokes abound and behind those jokes is the reality of the public perception of our profession.

In fact, the American Bar Association issued an all-inclusive report on the public perception of lawyers in America using surveys and focus groups (1). The results showed both positive and negative perceptions.

The positives included Americans sensing that attorneys are knowledgeable about the law and the majority felt they were represented well by lawyers. Many of those surveyed reported that the legal profession is considered a respectable career.

However, the study also revealed many negative perceptions about lawyers including beliefs that lawyers are often greedy, manipulative and corrupt. Those surveyed reported that the lawyers were not upfront about their fees, overcharged for their services, took too long to resolve cases and were unresponsive.

Supply Chain - A Competitive Advantage for EPC Businesses

In the era of globalization and harsh competition, a Projectized Organization like any other business entity, needs to be adaptive, dynamic and always aiming for continuous improvement. This is vital, otherwise, its survival will be tough. In this context, small details prevail; for example, building a strong and optimal Supply Chain System is a main objective for successful companies and today's Business Leaders. And when we say Projectized Organization, one of its core competencies lies in preparing and maintaining a well-established Planning throughout the Project Phases.

An effective planning can be seized by optimizing the supply chain design and collaborating demand and supply. From there, companies will need to execute their plan by properly managing materials supply; in short, to deliver the right product, to the right place, at the right time and in the right quantities. As it is known, the highest cost impact would arise from the corrective actions that we are forced to take at the end of a project. During this stage, time is restricted, resources are limited, budget is narrowed and customer satisfaction need to stay intact. For that, the execution and operation of EPC projects require close and direct collaboration between the Supply Chain Department and all other internal functional Departments (Engineering, Project Management, Quality, Sales, Finance) as well as the external stakeholders (Suppliers, Clients, Financial Institutions, Freight Forwarders, Customs Brokers).

Among those who manage EPC Projects, many believe that the E normally is the most important element, as usually the procurement or supply of material depends on decisions made by Engineering. The common setup states that engineering outlines the project specifications crucial to the successful procurement progress. In other words, if engineering is not properly achieved, then procurement fails. However, this does not entail that the Supply Chain has a secondary role in the effective completion of projects.