EP#69: {Student Success} Producing A Bigger Sound (+ falling back in love with music) with Penny White

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It’s not uncommon for musicians to feel disheartened by recording and releasing their music when they don’t receive the recognition or respect they’d like. But inside this episode, Penny White (AKA Jenny Welch) shares how this all changed once she became more involved in the process of recording and production.

This is a journey that has resulted in Jenny recording and releasing two EPs, being made track of the week on BBC Introducing: Midlands and feeling more fulfilled than ever before in the process. Penny shares her past experiences recording and releasing, how learning to record and produce helped her fall back in love with her music and how she produced a bigger sound on her new EP, TWO.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
{0:00} Intro
{04:08} How Jenny got into music
{13:42} Why Jenny fell out of love with music and had to take a break
{24:20} How she regained control of her music again
{33:24} Recording and releasing her music for the first time
{37:21} Her experience of learning about recording and production in a women-only space
{43:55} What success looks like now for Jenny
{48:09} The process of recording her second EP, TWO.
{01:05:07} Jenny’s advice for getting started with recording
{01:09:03} Episode Summary

Penny Music Artist Website >>

Listen to TWO on Spotify >>

Watch the video for ‘Better Than This’ >>

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