NEWS Warner Music takes Avenged Sevenfold to court thanks to California’s arcane 7 Year Rule Some thoughts on evaluating monitor speakers GUEST Oasis Mastering chief engineer Gene Grimaldi
Continue readingNEWS Happy Days! The music business worldwide has seen revenue grow this year. DTS and THX are acquired. GUEST Brainworx and Plugin Alliance founder Dirk Ulrich
Continue readingNEWS Amazon launched it’s Music Unlimited streaming service and it’s cheap – but there’s a catch. Let’s think out of the box by putting the sound system in the ceiling instead of the sides of the stage. GUEST Ultimate Ears sales director Mike Dias tells us everything to know about […]
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NEWS Are the streaming wars over? Spotify and Apple Music have 2/3rds of the business. Is using the latest generation of plugins cheating when it comes to mixing? GUEST PR and crowdfunding expert Ariel Hyatt. Click here to find out more about her new book Crowdstart
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NEWS Will Spotify buy Soundcloud? Why it might be a good idea. Reports from GameSoundCon and AES 2016 in Los Angeles GUEST Music publisher Greig Watts from DWB Songs talks about writing and publishing in Asia and songwriting camps
Continue readingNEWS Radio is dying right before our eyes, as it chooses to live in the past Pro Tools version 12.6 brings some new features that we should have had years ago GUEST Pamplamoose and Patreon founder Jack Conte
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NEWS The major labels don’t like streaming exclusives so they may be going away Headphone freakout solutions, some common sense, and some you might not be aware of GUEST Game audio composer and sound designer Brian Schmidt More info on GameSoundCon (Get $100 off by using the coupon code INCIRCLE16)
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NEWS Will today’s music be played 10 years from now? Catalog music doing just as well as current hits. The console that recorded The Beatles in Abbey Road Studio 1 is for sale GUEST Engineer and owner of Studio City Sound Tom Weir
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NEWS Spotify is making it’s own records, and dominating some playlists as a result The microphones on mobile phones are a big business and getting bigger GUEST Berklee Online and New Artist Model creator Dave Kusek
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NEWS It’s not often that an artist puts one over on a major label, but Frank Ocean did it to Universal Music One of the greatest engineers ever, Rudy Van Gelder, passed away GUEST Pro Tools Expert founder Russ Hughes talks Avid and workstations
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NEWS The music business in Japan is like the U.S. in the old days Guess what type of music helps you concentrate best GUEST Mastering engineer Colin Leonard describes his new online analog mastering process Aria
Continue readingNEWS Who buys vinyl in the UK? They’re a different demo than in the U.S. Fix it before you mix it. What to do to keep the mixer from hating you. GUEST Game audio specialist Alex Benyon
Continue readingNEWS Do you really need a record label? 5 Ways Record Production Has Changed GUEST Television dialog editor Don Murrey talks about his job
Continue readingNEWS CD sales falling faster than expected, and streaming makes more money Our musical preferences are learned and not biological, unlike what many researchers previously thought GUEST Engineer Ed Cherney talks about starting out, his light-bulb moment with Ry Cooder, his breakthrough with Bonnie Raitt, and working with Quincy […]
Continue readingNEWS Deezer finally launches in the United States Fairlight is going out of business GUEST Taishi Fukuyama – chief marketing officer of Qrates,com, analog on demand
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