NEWS Instagram users love music and artists should take notice How much longer will Pro Tools be the top DAW? GUEST Producer/Engineer Josh Gudwin
Continue readingNEWS The big streaming music services are in a price war The Shure SM58 is 50 years old GUEST Engineer Jordan “DJ Swivel” Young Click here for Headliner Magazine and skiomusic.com
Continue readingNEWS Pirate busted in Germany with 2 million records, CDs and DVDs What.CD shut down THX trying to enter tour sound business GUEST EarPeace hearing protection founder Jay Clark
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NEWS Buy-on a Motley Crue tour for $1 million, sue them for $30 million Samsung buys Harmon International, and Avid in trouble with investors GUEST Grammy winning engineer Mark Linett
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NEWS Downloads are the lowest they’ve been in 10 years. We’ll be living in a quieter world soon as new acoustic materials come to market GUEST Conductor, musical director, singer, songwriter and ProMusicDB founder Christy Crowl
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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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