Hey everyone, for ages I am looking for a solution to compensate hearing loss. My hearing loss in my right ear is pretty severe and I always had the idea of coming up with a plugin solution to compensate the hearing loss - at least in the DAW. I never found a good solution and never had time to develop something similar but now HEARS Perfection has been released. When you open the plugin you can start a hearing test and based on the results, it creates a frequency compensation curve for you. It obviously does not replace a full blown scientifically done hearing test but it gets sort of close. If you are interested, I attached the video here. If you are a subscriber of the Plugin Alliance subscription, you get it for free.

Hey everyone, If you’re still struggling to find work, to get positive replies from companies and clients, or just to be heard and seen, here’s a little list to run your demo reel through. It’s always WHO, not HOW. Meaning: make yourself visible. Use a profile picture. People don’t like working with invisible ghosts. Showing your face is important—no matter how you think you look, visibility matters. Your demo reel is not only about YOU, it’s about the benefits you bring to the table for your potential customers. Nobody likes an ego bash-fest and nobody cares when you started playing piano or what your first word was. Instead of a bible-long biography, point out exactly how you can help a client reach their goals. If you try to serve everyone, you address no one—it’s that simple. Use ONE demo reel to address ONE target group. You want work in the video games industry? Let ONE reel speak to them directly. You want to work in the trailer and production music industry? Make ONE reel for them. Why should a game audio director be interested in your corporate jingles? Why should a children’s book author care about your horror zombie splatter credits? If you want to work in multiple industries, create separate demo reels for each one. Trying to impress everyone ends up addressing no one directly. More tracks don’t mean more impressive—five well-chosen tracks are plenty. For games, maybe a main theme, two in-game tracks (wandering, dungeon exploring), one battle track, and a boss battle or cutscene cue. For trailers, three epic, polished 2:30 tracks. Make sure every track is fully polished and finalized—never rush, and never include work-in-progress material in your reel. You are not the center of the solar system. If you think it’s impressive to put 5-minute movies or 10-minute medleys in your reel, you’ll lose people fast. No one will dig through unrelated content to find what they want. It’s not just the audio that matters—the visuals count too. Use consistent colors and design elements that feel familiar to your target audience. Pitching to medical science research companies? A quick Google search will show you most of their sites are white with blue text. Match their visual language and you’ll instantly feel more relevant. Adapt and win!

Dear everyone, first, thank you so much to everyone for signing up! This community is growing so fast, I am amazed. So in case you like the free courses and this place in general, feel free to forward the Audio Artist Community to everyone you know who might be interested! 🤗 Now, feel free to put your music, projects, demo reels, or portfolios in THIS post. Feel free to self-promote and enjoy each other's music! However, please keep in mind to keep it spam-free, ok? If you want to post several demo reels or links, please use your own post out of respect for everyone else 👍 Thank you, and there will be more content very soon! Alex

*Disclaimer: I know there are layers and likely no simple answers* Hopefully this is in the right place 😅 I have shared the below track with a handful of trailer houses and music supervisors with nothing back. Of course this leads to the ever so loverly "I suck at this". I imagine its partially due to my pitch and having not previously built much of a relationship with any of these people. It seems like it depends on who you follow but I like Alex's approach the most and will use that going forward. For me, this also leads to the next part of the "I suck" conundrum; how do you know when a track is ready for the big screen? I would love to hear from folks who have made even a single dollar from getting a placement. I know its easy to play with a track for ever and ever and ever so at what point would you call it done? Very curious to hear people thoughts on this and any feedback on the track as well. DAW - REAPER (Yea I'm one of those guys) Thank you everyone!

I have a question that I know is not easy to answer, but if anyone has any advice, I would be grateful. Namely, I am interested in how you would generally approach mixing a "hybrid" track (not in the form of a trailer) that consists of different types of pads, atmospheric instruments, hybrid vocals and possibly some synthesizer serving as a low end (in fact, there are almost no standard sampled instruments like pianos, guitars, strings, brass, etc.). I know that the question is unusual and I know that it is impossible to answer specifically and in detail, but as I said... I will be grateful for any advice and tips, or a good video tutorial.