Canadian Musician - January / February 2020 | Page 74

TECH
TOOLS
SoundBetter by Spotify for Artists is a recently-launched music
talent marketplace meant to help musicians and music professionals
from around the world to connect. A comprehensive database of
creative professionals allows musicians to directly hire producers,
singers, songwriters, mixing and mastering engineers, and session
musicians. At the same time, it enables creative professionals to
market their services outside their local networks, reach new clients,
and get work. SoundBetter offers tools for talent discovery, project
management, payment facilitation, and a review system.
www.soundbetter.com.
Amuse Music Distribution, a music distribution company and
record label founded in Sweden in 2015, has an app that allows
artists to upload their own music and get it distributed to all major
streaming platforms and music stores for free. With the app, the
artist can keep track of their daily streams, downloads, and audience
interactions and have access to real-time data. Artists keep 100 per
cent of their royalties and as soon as the music stores pay out the
royalties, artists can withdraw their money with one tap.
amuse.io.
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Audio Test Kitchen bills itself as the first unbiased online
virtual microphone showroom. By partnering with many of
the top microphone manufacturers, the free website allows
consumers to audition equipment remotely by hearing and
comparing the sound of hundreds of different large-diaphragm
condenser microphones with no bias. Users can hear what
one microphone sounds like on multiple sources in a full
mix, which is ideal for hearing the different characteristics of
a mic and as a means of highlighting its character without
any additional processing to colour the actual sound.
www.audiotestkitchen.com.
SoundCloud has introduced Promote on SoundCloud,
a self-service promotional tool for SoundCloud Premier
creators to boost their original tracks to the top of listeners’
feeds and mobile homepages. Promote is the latest addition
to SoundCloud’s Premier program, which offers independent
creators full-stack capabilities to share and promote tracks
directly to fans in real-time, distribute releases to their audi-
ence across all major music services worldwide, and get paid
for plays both on SoundCloud and on other services, all from
their SoundCloud accounts.
creators.soundcloud.com/premier.