Making a DIY music marketing plan as an independent artist requires utilizing music submission services. These are essential to get your music heard. Also, they ensure that listeners and curators everywhere can listen to your latest release. With a seemingly endless variety of available playlisting options, it can be difficult to determine the best option when limited in budget. Hence, it is worthwhile to understand how these different platforms work to help pick the perfect fit for your musical career. This article will guide you through the basics behind some of the most popular music submission platforms. It’s also helping ensures that you use the best resource for releasing your tracks to the world.

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If you’re just getting started with music production, you will have heard terms like gain, level and volume used to explain signal strength.

However are they all the same? What does each mean exactly and the way do they affect your workflow?

The answer isn’t always easy if you don’t know the concepts behind them. Fortunately, there’s nothing complicated about audio gain once you break it down.

In this article, I’ll clarify the exact meaning of the term. Then we will explain the different ways gain, level, and volume are used in music production.

Let’s get started.

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