A comprehensive guide covering the basics of what all engineers should understand of the perception of sound and how that knowledge to better their craft.
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The sound company’s job is to advance the show with the artist and show up with a rig. Not so when the full production falls into your lap.
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2nd September 2010: AudioSpillage has updated its DrumSpillage percussion synth plug-in to version 1.1. New Features: Improved support for automation recording and editing. Choke groups (12 groups available). Solo bu...
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2nd September 2010: Nassen has updated RaX'n'TraX to version 1.4.9. Changes since v1.4.1: Drag "Key"-event to MONO panel. Extended window to draw Notes/Velocities in MONO panel (double-click on Note/Vel row). Piano-...
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Computer, controller and groovebox in one!
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Lucky winner announced!
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MP3: MP3 Reader from Apple ...
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Guitar: effects processor ...
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Jon Hopkins performs live at the ICA. Photo (CC-BY-SA) Matt Biddulph. Classically trained as a pianist, musician and producer Jon Hopkins has one of the richest resumes in electronic music. He’s a frequent collaborator with Brian Eno, wand has worked with artists like Coldplay (who featured his music on their last album), Tunng, David Holmes, and Imogen Heap. He worked with director Peter Jackson, and has a sci-fi score on the way. He also has a rich set of solo releases. And we’ve s ...
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Pocket Piano from Critter and Guitari on Vimeo. Apologies to the immense powers of lumbering studio gear, but a new lifestyle may be forming around unique, mobile, small, simple synths. The latest entry comes from none other than Critter and Gitari, some of our favorite electronics designers, based in Philadelphia. This time, they’re touting a pocket synth. No MIDI, no control voltage – just wooden keys, some knobs, an audio out jack, and a speaker. But the killer feature is, it runs ...
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YouTube via theraywilsonshow | September 02, 2010"If you've been wanting to get started in synth-diy by building a cool sound effect box you can't do better than this project. You will have a veritable plethora of sound generating devices in the palm of your hand although I recommend some kind of case (last joke I promise). This board is packed with simple circuits that sound cool. You'll be ...
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As a musician the word to describe how I feel about the new Apple Ping social network is: exhausted. Musicians have become the tech industries guinea pigs. Why not? We try anything and work cheap right? After creating and curating profiles on MySpace, Last.fm, Imeem, Facebook and then Facebook Fan Pages and on and on now it’s time for Ping. Of course most musicians I know won’t be able to create and artist page yet will they? At this point in time indie artists will have to create no ...
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Here are screenshots of the two pages of music creation Apps I currently have installed on my iPad. The apps are: Aeolian Harp, audio palette, bleep!BOX, Beat Counter, Bebot, DopplerPad, Dropophone, Everyday Looper, FunkBox, iElectribe, ImproVox, iSample, iStylophone, iVoxel, Loopseque, Jasuto, Magic Piano, Melodica, MorphWiz, nanoloop, NanoStudio, NESynth, NNN MONO, Radarhead, sampletoy, SongMaker, SoundPrism, Soundrop, SoundyThingy, synthPond, Tiction AV, technoBox, TOPLAPapp, TweakyBeat and V ...
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Okay, now that the release excitement of Axon has died down, we're on to the Next Phase in our Big Plan. We're actually working on several things at once, and I'll attempt to boil them down to the essence. 1. Discord3 OS X update. There will be a minor update on the OS X side of Discord3 shortly; we've got some internal re-working, plus a minor bug fix. We have decided to not release 64-bit versions of OS X at this time, as the 64-bit port of AU is essentially impossible with our current workin ...
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Here's the second video in my 6-part "How To Run This Little Fucker" series. In this one, I show a little more in-depth about how to make connections, and the rhythms that result. I changed the format a bit to make it less wordy than the last one, which was apparently causing some problems.
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BOSS Pedal Sketch app for iPhone is here! The easy-to-use applets you save the connection order and knob positions of your BOSS compact effect pedals. You can also import pertinent sounds and photos from your iPhone mic and camera as Memo data. BOSS...
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Dangerous Music announced today that it has begun shipping its new stereo \'Dangerous BAX EQ\' to international distributors and US dealers in quantities. The new one-rack space unit is ideal for use in mastering and as a final mix buss shelving EQ.
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UK Music has today announced further details of its Leadership Development Network. Supported and funded by the Cultural Leadership Programme, the Network brings together 10 senior leaders from across the music industry, drawn from different companies, sectors, regions and groupings. Its overall aims are to promote greater cohesion and strategic collaboration across the music business, and to foster the development of individual leadership skills. ...
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UK Music statement on BBC 6 Music July 5th 2010 Feargal Sharkey, CEO UK Music, said: “UK Music is delighted by today’s announcement by the BBC Trust, that the case has not been made for the closure of BBC 6 Music. However it does not represent a total reprieve - the Sword of Damocles has only been put on ice. We would still urge Mark Thompson and the BBC Executive to acknowledge the Trust’s conclusions, to recognise 6 Music’s unique role in supporting this country’s ...
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Amazon.com, of course, doesn't represent the entire book market. Yet Monday's Amazon press release, which revealed that the company now sells 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books sold, makes it clear that consumers are embracing digital books at a much faster rate than digital music. So why has a book format introduced years after commercial digital music downloads already gained greater commercial acceptance? Some quick thoughts about the possible reasons why: 1. Existing Content If ...
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My band the Layaways has never released a video, but thanks to Rumble Fish music licensing, which provides content for YouTube's AudioSwap functionality, there are currently several dozen videos with our music on YouTube. We receive a fraction of a cent for each play, though it hasn't been much of a moneymaker so far. Our quarterly royalty checks have all been for less than $10, but you never know... This is my favorite of the lot: Someone edited together a bunch of scenes from The Man From U.N ...
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A scanty selection of artists to follow and missed opportunities to encourage user interaction are among the early problems.
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The Ping social-music feature in iTunes 10 is what Microsoft imagined when it launched the Zune with one critical difference: an addressable user base of more than 100 million.
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Who in the world is Gordon Paddison? Do you remember the movie Wedding Crashers when that viral video made the rounds where you paste your own face over the face of one of the stars of the movie and you send it to your friends? That was the work of Gordon Paddison. What about the social hubbub surrounding Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, one of the most popular movie franchises of all time? That, too, was the work of Gordon Paddison. Gordon is the head of a company called Stradella Road, ...
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I was reading a post on “what every blog needs to be great,” and was struck with the results of this poll: Why was this so striking? Because these results don’t simply answer the question for blogs. I would argue they answer the question for any brand – even a radio brand. How much effort does your radio brand invest in its distinctive voice? How distinctive is your voice, in fact? It’s almost impossible to imagine a distinctive voice that doesn’t in some ...
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Say what you will about iTune's new social network Ping, but it's going to be a great place to market music. So imagine the frustration of the many indie artists - many of who are selling music on iTunes - when they learned that there was no obvious way to create an an artist profile in Ping. Apple Responds: "By Invitation Only" We asked Apple to explain and just heard back from a spokesperson that "artist profiles were launched by invitation, but we'll keep adding more and more." ...
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It will take some time to digest eaxctly what the announcements that Steve Jobs made yesterday mean to artists and the music industry, but here are a few initial reactions: It amazes me just how far in front of the curve Apple always is. And yet on closer examination, what they announce as revolutionary is almost always simply at the front edge of evolutionary. The music industry could learn from this. With its new Ping social network Apple is continuing to expand its closed e ...
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Chris Brown returns to the top of the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for the first time since 2006 as "Deuces" jumps from No. 2 to No. 1 this week.
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After an arrest Wednesday in California, there are questions about whether T.I.'s returning to the music charts — or prison.
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60% September discount on TDM plug-in recreation of the Ursa Major Space Station multi-tap delay ...
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The Lower Rhythm release Signals 2 for Windows ...
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Legendary drummer, Clinn Rippy, was in the Music Business Radio studios today for a rare radio appearace. He was joined by film director Shance Ryan Brentham, who has been documenting his story for the last four years. Also in the studio was Dr. Darren Hicks, who has been studying Clinn for the last several years, looking at what makes him the amazing musician he is. Clinn has played with a multi-genre list of musicians ranging from Elvis Presley, to Snoop Dogg, to Celine Dion. His music h ...
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Daisy Dern and Dave Gibson of Savannah Music Group were in the Music Business Radio studios today. Daisy came to Nashville from San Francisco and got a deal with Mercury Records in 2001. We talked about getting the deal...and losing it. Dave is a songwriter with cuts by artists including Joe Diffie, Confederate Railroad, Tanya Tucker, Alabama, Pam Tillis, and Montgomery Gentry. We talked about his move from Chicago to Nashville and what it took for him to break in. The two came together to f ...
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Guns N' Roses encountered more drama on their European tour last night, with Axl Rose storming off stage at Dublin's O2 Arena after he was pelted with bottles from the crowd. Fans had been forced, as at many recent GNR shows, to wait over 90 minutes for the band to ...
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Big Boi Featuring Yelawolf: "You Ain't No DJ" Video Atlanta's finest hooks up with Alabama's up-and-coming as Big Boi and Yelawolf present their new video for "You Ain't No DJ," the latest clip from Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. Watch it above before George Lucas has ...
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In order to bring that sound, feel and look to a group of players and collectors today, Gibson Custom has introduced the Don Felder "Hotel California" 1959 Les Paul, an instrument created in the image of Felder's original 1959 'Burst in limited quantities.
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Korg unveiled its new microKEY USB Powered Keyboard and MIDI Controller.
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First of all, let’s get this out of the way – yes, I watch X Factor. Even though I’m always banging on about authenticity, about being natural, unconventional and genuine – I’m a regular viewer. Why ? Mostly because I’m a parent of two highly active little boys, and at the end of a long, [...] ...
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People loved this when I posted it on Twitter, and I thought it was well worth putting it up here, too. If you think you put loads of effort into your recording and mixing – watch this, and think again ! Brings new meaning to the phrase “playing the studio”. No extra commentary is [...] ...
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Telling an audio engineer to listen is like telling a doctor to heal. Of course we’re going to listen! How else do we get a great-sounding recording? You’re good at listening to the music, but how well do you listen to the artist? I’m producing an EP for a really talented singer-songwriter named Whitney Winkler. She asked me to play acoustic guitar on the project. Once we had the guitar and scratch vocals recorded, she went home and left me to add various elements to the songs ...
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At various points throughout your recording career, you’ll have chances to record certain instruments for the first time. Maybe you’ve never recorded an actual piano, or a drum kit. Or maybe you’ll need to record an accordion, or a hammer dulcimer, or bagpipes. Having never done it before, where do you start? I had the pleasure of recording a violinist in my home studio last week. I’ve recorded violin before, but never in my home studio. It’s a lot of fun to mic up ...
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A quick look at the most notable jumps and drops on this week's Billboard 200 albums and Hot 100 singles charts.
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Google Inc. is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple Inc, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Music Industry Newswire COLUMN: Ted Cohen is considered a visionary in music and technology, and I agree. After all, he played an important role in devising the licensing agreements that helped create the Rhapsody subscription service and the iTunes Music Store. He got started in computing in 1979 with an Atari 800 (“8K of memory tricked out to 48K”) and has embraced technological advancements ever since. He was in Artist Development at Warner Bros. Records in the late ’70s an ...
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. /Music Industry Newswire/ — EASTWEST, the industry leader in virtual software instruments announces the TERAPACK, the company’s entire collection on a terabyte hard drive with free 10-day trial versions of all products. The TERAPACK is designed to allow users to demo the entire EASTWEST/QUANTUM LEAP product line quickly and easily on their own systems without having to install any samples. TERAPACK customers can buy full licenses of most of the included products for ...
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Here’s a little music business story for you… This one is all about MENTORING and Rolling Stone Magazine. A Few weeks ago I participated in the mentoring sessions at the NYC New Music Seminar.This was special for me because I helped develop the mentoring sessions as an advisor to the NMS. Spending time with active artists in an intimate atmosphere where we could ask each other questions one-on-one got me thinking about the value of having access to music industry professional ...
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As musicians, it’s almost guaranteed that at some point you will have said or at least thought “I need more fans!”, and while there are countless blogs, resources, and gig slots open for you to act on that, I often feel that the best way to learn why someone does something is to be that someone – or as they say “take a step into their shoes”. So I thought I would apply that theory to building fans and work out why I recently became a loyal fan of the ar ...
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In Between The Notes: A Portrait of Pandit Pran Nath (1986) ...
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> Busy week! Started a new film with everything that includes… Lots to do!! > Made me laugh! Someone on twitter said: “Actors dressed as characters from Planet Of The Apes should be the only people to greet the Chilean miners when they’re freed.” > Six keys to being excellent at anything > One month until the Berlinale Talent Campus application deadline – do it! > For any fans of Jonsi, two good links: one with his partner Alex on their ...
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You can download Imaginary Robot Ninja Assistant here, and the whole Slow Food album here. Who doesn’t have an imaginary robot ninja assistant? Fixing stuff, being awesome, ass-kicking when needed, and, uhm, assisting… When I finally get my real Robot Ninja Assistant, it will sing like this track. And I’d understand every word it sang. This is how all robots should sing. It’s a love song. Nowhere near as dark as it sounds to us. Robot harmony is different, y’see, not based on dodgy ...
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OK, I’m going to interrupt my ‘track by track’ breakdown of my own new album to tell you about a GREAT record by my lovely friend Laura Kidd, AKA She Makes War. Here it is, in its entirety, on bandcamp (naturally) – hit play while you’re reading this (and then hit the ‘buy’ button when you’ve finished): Laura is a true renaissance woman - singer/songwriter/producer/videographer/session bassist/blogger/social tech ninja/web designer… A huge s ...
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