DBE aims to help artists like yourself. We provide attention from experienced producer Jordan Tishler to help you develop and refine your songwriting, promotional material, marketing strategy, and, of course, your recordings. Depending on your readiness, style and popularity, DBE may promote your recordings to labels.

This is a complicated question. The short answer is the relationship is whatever is deemed necessary to achieve a great recording. Often producer Jordan Tishler will get involved in a project very early to help with writing and arranging as well as the obvious recording sessions.

At the end of the recording process, again the plans vary from handing a mix to the record company to continuing to do the mastering to helping an artist promote the finished product to record labels. Often times, by the way, it is not necessary and even wasteful to record an entire album before shopping to labels. These are decisions Jordan Tishler can help you make.

Financial issues are always present. DBE and producer Jordan Tishler attempt to help artists with these issues whenever possible. Help is offered both by way of education about the realities of the music industry, and depending on the artists' potential, by way of percentage deals in lieu of (or partly in lieu of) upfront money. There is no free lunch, however, and all artists must be ready to invest in themselves (what record company would invest in anyone who wouldn't invest in themselves?).

Distance is also a detail which needs attention and the solution depends on the scope of the project. DBE has worked with national acts from as far away as Austin Texas and Montana. When a project is to be recorded at DBE's Boston studio, DBE has a referral system to ensure pleasant, affordable lodging for artists. Music Producer Jordan Tishler will also travel to any studio of the artist's choice provided that suitable accomodations can be arranged.

A producer's job is to help you make a killer recording. Any promotion of you or your recording is extra credit. An booking agent will help you go on tour, but will be hard to get until you are generating a sizeable number of ticket sales (they get paid a percentage of the receipts). Often entertainment lawyers are good for shopping to labels, but may require payment upfront. A manager is almost always needed to book gigs, arrange tours, and handle publicity, but they are also paid on percentage, so you have to be selling enough to attract them.

Many, but not all, producers are also engineers. Producer Jordan Tishler is also an audio engineer, and often does his own engineering on projects recorded at DBE's studio in Boston, MA.

Instrumental only music is hard to sell on CD. If you are aiming for a mainstream audience, maybe you should try writing lyrics, or hook up with a lyricist. You can always hire a vocalist for recording. Alternately, you could find a small boutique label which will try to market "your thing" as is.

An important option to be aware of is music publishing. Instrumental music is often needed for commercials, TV, or films. dBE Publishing can help you explore this direction - give us a call or email.