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5 Fun Facts You Don’t Know About the Home Studio Musician at Music Gateway

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5 Fun Facts You Don’t Know About the Home Studio Musician



"With the explosion in music technology, social media, and the Internet in the last decade, every musician today has access to top notch equipment, great computers, and an entire network of talented artists just a tweet away. There has been a massive shift in the music industry away from high cost studio production to literally millions of artists creating music in their own homes. And this is not just a world for amateurs."

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