Home recording is more accessible thanks to the latest kits and gadgets currently available. Now that you can record your own tunes and create a song from scratch in your home recording studio, you can start publishing great work for listeners to enjoy.

Producing your tracks is only half the battle. To get your songs or covers out to the listeners, you need to promote them. Fortunately, you now have a lot of different ways to promote your music to a wider audience, including these simple strategies you can implement immediately.

Make Music Videos

While SoundCloud and other audio sharing platforms are great, you can connect with even more people by venturing out to video sharing platforms. Yes, I’m talking about YouTube.

Making music videos for your tracks isn’t as difficult as you think. For starters, you already have a great video camera in your pocket – that camera on the back of your smartphone can make great videos that could help promote your music.

You can also try other tactics such as making lyrics videos for the audience to follow. Instead of shooting video clips, you use animations and other visual elements to create an interesting video that promotes both your music and the lyrics.

Engage the Audience

We really can’t talk about promoting music without talking about social media. Social media is a big part of both mainstream and indie music scenes today; not utilizing your social media profiles to get your music out is a big mistake.

Instead of blasting info about your latest tracks, try engaging in fun conversations with other social media users instead. While the main goal is promoting your music, you don’t have to be talking about your new tracks or asking people to listen to them all the time.

Turn to Your Inner Circle

You may not realize that you already have a loyal audience ready to promote your music to more listeners. The friends you have in your address book and messaging apps (including Snapchat) are also potential listeners to reach out to.

The best and easiest way to let them know about your new tracks is through the status message of your favorite messaging apps. You can, for example, use WhatsApp to share the URL to your latest song. Set your own unique WhatsApp status to make people look twice at your profile.

Go Offline

Last but not least, try some offline promotional tactics to help you gain the traction and exposure you need, especially when you are just getting started. Asking the local coffee shop to add your song the regular playlist is a good example of how offline promotion can boost your exposure greatly.

Another thing you can do offline is collaborating with other creators. Reach out to fellow music lovers who are also creating songs and covers at home. Work on a project together and combine forces to promote each other.

These are all simple ways to really push your music to the right listeners. As mentioned before, knowing how to promote your music is a part of the equation that you cannot neglect. Start small, take it one step at a time, and you’ll have thousands – millions – of listeners before you know it.

Sound recording is a fun, energizing and rewarding task. Also, the present reasonable innovation implies that anybody can have in their home the instruments required to have a professional sound recording setting. Gone are the days when this was just conceivable in a multi-million dollar studio.

Here is a list of things that are essential for your studio.

1. Computer- If you are starting a studio from the scratch, the computer is one of the biggest investments to be made. However, these days everybody has a computer of some sort which they can work on for the recording studio.
2. A DAW/Audio Interface combo- A DAW is a Digital Audio Workstation and this is the software that is used to record and edit audio recorded in the studio. You need an audio interface, which is the hardware that is used to connect the computer and the rest of your equipment.
3. Microphones- It is always wise to have different collections of microphones in a studio and this usually occurs as a studio matures over time. You just need 1 or 2 microphones to get started, but if you want to expand your base, you must start collecting the different types of microphones available in the market. Each microphone is suitable  for different kinds of genres, tones and pitches, do your research and buy the right kind of microphones for you recording studio.
4. Headphones- If you are starting afresh, it is highly likely that you spend time recording yourself or your band. This is the reason why in the beginning you only need one-two pairs of headphones. While buying headphones, make sure to buy the correct ones, the ones with close back headphones for efficient noise cancellation for tracking and the ones with open back headphones for mixing.
5. Studio monitors- In the past, mixing was always done on the speakers, and slowly today that has evolved into mixing using open back headphones. Studio monitors have a flatter frequency, which provides a more clear, uncoloured and neutral sound, so that you can change your mix objectively. Usually monitors are pretty expensive, but with the right amount of research, one can always buy discounted or a little lower priced one for beginners.
6. XLR Cables- When you first start a studio, you basically need three cables- one very long XLR Cable for your microphone and two short ones for the monitors. Before buying thee cables, double check the quality of these cables and also double-check that the stereo output of the audio interface has XLR connectors as some people use TRS cables.
7. Microphone stands- A solid microphone stand is believed to be one of the most worthwhile investments in a studio despite its high rates. For beginners who find the cost of microphone too expensive, look up for refurbished or used microphone stands which come for a much cheaper rate.