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Recommended Providers
The following is a list of providers for the independent musician. Scroll through this list to
get or find anything you need to help you get your music out in the hands of people.
CD Manufacturers & Mastering Services
11th Records Mastering
Releasing an album is an investment. Getting the best possible sound means
selling more CDs, thereby getting the best return on that investment.
Major labels have all their releases mastered professionally, because mastering
can make a mediocre recording sound good, and a good recording sound
excellent. 11th Records offers major-label quality CD mastering at an
affordable price. Don't let anyone master your project on faith alone.
Allow us to master a sample track of your music free of charge.
American Pro Digital
American Pro Digital, Inc. (APD) provides the ultimate
in personalized service and superior product quality to the worldwide
CD & DVD Replication market. We are a one-stop professional service
for all of your replication needs.
Armadillo Digital Audio
We have the highest quality and best service available,
along with the most competitive pricing. That elevates us above all
others. We also offer many services including Digital Mastering and
direct COLOR printing on discs, labels, inserts and tray cards.
BCT Studio & Graphics
Provides high quality services with professional results while keeping prices affordable.
BCT Studio & Graphics offers all services related to the CD manufacturing process from
studio recording, CD mastering, and highly commercial graphic designs to a retail-ready finished
product. BCT Studio & Graphics will BEAT ALL advertised prices anywhere, GUARANTEED!
CD Solutions
Let the experts at CD Solutions, Inc. be your solution for CD Replication, Duplication, and Duplication hardware.
Digital Sunspot
Professional Audio CD Mastering and CD Replication at project studio prices. All projects
custom mastered at high bit rates to exacting standards - Yours! 300 (or more) CDs manufactured at the best
rates available. Mastering and replication discount packages too!
DiscMasters
Complete media production solutions. Why wait 6-8 weeks for the CD manufacturing plant to turnaround your order when 24
hours from now you can have full color CD's in your hands.
Lonely Records
Complete multimedia solutions for audio, video and software. From concept to completion they offer cd, dvd, cassette and vinyl packages. They also have in-house graphic design, web services, digital mastering and printing. Their prices are guaranteed to be the lowest in the nation on most cd packages. For a free catalog, contact Lonely Records toll free at 800-409-8513.
Marble Eye Studios
Complete solutions for your recording, mixing, and mastering needs. Get a discount on mastering services if you register
your CD with Independent Records.
MasterTrack
Specialize in professional small run cd packages for independent releases. Their 24 hour duplication service includes Cd,
duplication, and black thermal printing at prices you won't believe! If you're shopping around for the best possible quality, price, and service for
your next release you should definitely check them out.
Max Mastering
Think getting your CD mastered will destroy your bank account?
Think again. Try MaxMastering.com for your mastering needs. If you don't
like it. Don't pay!
MusicBootCamp.Com
Provides information, tools and training on how to develop your professional music career.
National Tape & Disc Corporation
Audio Cassette & Compact Disc manufacturing services. Handling premastering, graphic design, filmwork, printing
& packaging for retail-ready project. Supplier of blank cassettes, R-Dats and CD-Recordables. Short runs of Cassette & CD
Copies available with SAME DAY SERVICE!
Contact 1-800-874-4174 or email: [email protected].
Nerve Center
Nerve Center provides personalized CD and DVD manufacturing services – definitely not a “cookie
cutter” operation. They’ll give you as much (or as little) help as you need to get you exactly the end result you’re
looking for. Very friendly, very knowledgeable, and very cheap!
Raintree
Specializing in CD duplication, cassette duplication, digital audio editing, pre-mastering, remote recording, website design,
graphic design and more.
S & J CD Duplication
Offers CD replication, burning, mastering and thermal imaging services. XG Media
XG Media is a full-service optical disk media manufacturer. Offering Multimedia Development, CD ROM / DVD / Business Card CD Replication / Duplication & Packaging Design.
Graphic Design & Photography Duplication Services
Layne Strickler Design
LSD is a graphic design studio specializing in CD Package Art, Illustration and Communication Design. Reasonable rates with plenty
of experience.
The Mad Hand Arts, Graphics & Design, NY
Awesome CD cover design, exceptional graphics, first class service.
MusicBootCamp.Com
Provides information, tools and training on how to develop your professional music career.
Non-Stop Graphics
Non-Stop Graphics specializing in creating eye-catching special effects on all types of artwork used on album cover design projects.
Promotional Photo Design
Wholesale publicity & promo photo reproduction, poster copies, 8x10 glossy duplication, photo business
cards, cassette inserts, for bands, musicians, actors, models, celebrities, and manufacturers. As low as 22 cents per copy.
Sound-n-Visions Design
The premiere web and graphic design company specializing in the performing and visual arts communities.
If you're looking for an affordable way to promote yourself and your music, look no further. With an
extremely talented team of designers, artists, programmers, developers, and flash guru's, we deliver high
quality, eye-catching, and original websites, whether it be a simple one page layout or a complex flash or
e-commerce site. Visit www.snvdesigns.com and get found.
Promotional & Distribution Services
Broken Records
Broken Records is home to 286 excellent independent Christian music groups and solo artists. Independent Christian music
is produced by groups and artists who self fund and self distribute
their music and are not signed by a record company. Every artist and
band on Broken Records has a unique vision and calling. You'll also
find a diverse cross section of styles and talents on the site. Please
support the music group of your choice, when you do, you are helping
change the Christian music industry. Its time for a change!!
CafePress
You design your own line of gear - upload any logo or picture you want! You set the prices for the things you sell. We
create an online store for you and handle all orders, manufacturing,
shipping, and billing. You make money every time someone buys something
from your store. It's 100% free to create your own store. No setup.
No inventory. Great for bands, businesses, churches, schools, little-league
teams... even your favorite pet!
CDStreet.Com
CDstreet.com is your secure source for credit card music ordering in your own website. We serve the independent music industry
exclusively. Independent record labels, bands, music schools, music
stores and publishers in the US and Canada can all use CDstreet.com
to e-Commerce enable their own website.
Digital Underdog Production
Digital Underdog Productions feeds artists to record labels. We provide artist rep contracts to secure deals while
liasing with other promo companies. We also produce artists and bands and can offer support in these and other areas.
EarBuzz.Com
earBuzz is a FREE ecommerce site for music artists who are distributing their own CDs - earBuzz.com distributes music worldwide
accepting Visa, MC, checks, and money orders. As musicians and artists
we wanted to start a site where independent musicians could find a home
for their works without up front fees and still make the majority of
the proceeds. We want artists, as we want ourselves, to be able to help
feed the ability to continue creating music.
Local Yokels Radio Show
NYC's #1 hit underground FM show, Check out the site for getting your music
aired in no time!
Flipswitch
We are an MP3 digital distribution site for independent artists. We know how hard it is for independent artists to get their music heard, and for you, the customer, to hear them - there are millions of great bands out there, but you can't go to every show in every country and state to hear them!
Promotional Photo Duplication
Discount publicity & promo photo reproduction, poster copies, 8x10 glossy duplication, photo business cards, cassette
inserts, for bands, musicians, actors, models, celebrities, and manufacturers. As low as 22 cents per copy!
Rainmaker Publicity
Top indie publicity agency serves unsigned bands, indie labels, and tours across the U.S.A. Founded in 1996 by Rhonda Kelley (ex-ABC Radio executive) to specifically develop young bands. Toll free # 1-888-965-5556.
Sheheshe Music Services
SheheShe Music Services provides radio promotion for the independent artist. They submit to stations working in your genre, make individual phone calls to each station on your behalf, send giveaway copies to any station which requests it for no extra charge, set up on-air interviews for many artists, and can even do mastering using their Goliath mastering technique. In fact, they have done radio promotion for the Grammy Award winner and platinum seller, Doodlebug of Digable Planets with their new release under Cee Knowledge & Cosmic Funk Orchestra. Whether it's regional or national promotions, they keep their prices in the range that indie artists can afford. Come check out Sheheshe Music Services.
Publishing and Licensing
ASCAP
ASCAP is the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers,
a membership association of over 110,000 composers, songwriters,
lyricists and music publishers. ASCAP's function is to protect the
rights of its members by licensing and paying royalties for the public
performances of their copyrighted works.
BMI
BMI is an American performing rights organization which represents
more than 250,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers. The
company collects license fees on behalf of those American creators it
represents, as well as for the thousands of creators from around the
world who have chosen BMI for U.S. representation. The fees for the
"public performances" of its repertoire of more than 4.5 million
compositions - including radio airplay, broadcast and cable television
carriage, Internet and live and recorded performances by all other
users of music - are then distributed as royalties to the writers and
copyright holders it represents.
Harry Fox Agency
The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA) was established in 1927 by NMPA to
provide an information source, clearinghouse and monitoring service
for licensing musical copyrights. For seventy years, HFA has provided
efficient and convenient service for publisher clients (who need not
be members of NMPA) and for a broad spectrum of music users.
Web Design and Web Hosting Services
Sound-n-Visions Design
The premiere web and graphic design company specializing in the performing and visual arts communities.
If you're looking for an affordable way to promote yourself and your music, look no further. With an
extremely talented team of designers, artists, programmers, developers, and flash guru's, we deliver high
quality, eye-catching, and original websites, whether it be a simple one page layout or a complex flash or
e-commerce site. Visit www.snvdesigns.com and get found.
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