I never knew anybody who was consciously trying to sound like anything in particular back in the '60s.

It is front of kit. I was stunned the first time I tried it. I later learned that it had been SOP in Muscle Shoals.

It's been happening off and on for decades. The power bill for a transmitter has come down a bunch thanks to class D amplification.

There have been rumors that they were going all streaming. That said, streaming's biggest champion, Jimmy Iovine just quit!

The link works here.

Like I keep saying, you need to start in living rooms. The only effective publicity has always been word of mouth.

Every artist has a unique audience.

Music is communicating emotions. Part of the process is tension against even time and pitch and its effect on breath and heartbeat. Out-A-Tuna and Beat-Dick are a head trip that has ruined the effectiveness and profitability of popular music.

What you are looking for is a balance of the head, heart and groin. Heartbeat is determined by the breath while singing. The right tempo is the foundation of connecting with other people to share the emotional experience. Where the head comes in is finding enough variation for the experience to not ...

The fade out was an integral part of the loudness wars on vinyl. Level on a 45 drops like a rock at 3 minutes.

Gibson owns Tascam too.

Genre means an intended audience. They are always handy work of marketing suits.

They never were more than physically assembled according to everyone I've known. Boutique stores were also notorious for swapping their lemons and some cash with banjo bazaar for their best ones.

I suspect that Cakewalk was ready to go under when Gibson acquired them.

Folks who are actually out playing in front of people stand a chance of learning to be great.

The Beatles and the Grateful Dead both found a way around every conventional concept of music promotion. Live recording no longer requires a truck and storage is dirt cheap so people who are really great no longer need a studio or much money. The only thing is that they do have to be really great.

What a crock of bullish!t. Apple just bought the largest music and movie catalog in India too. Kill off the old music biz with piracy and then replace it with distribution you can control. The problem is that they assume that music is a commodity. I'm sticking to my old pfart view that some kids are...

That's a real hoot!

NS 10s are OK sitting on a meter bridge of a large console because it fills in the low end. They are also very picky about the power amplifier. They always were a reference that were used alongside mains. The idea was to get mixes to sound great on both.

You can lease the master for a limited time with the ability to go elsewhere if they are unable to do anything.

A-Men!

I'm also sceptical of such. Everything we do is pretty unique. It is is probably more about agility and the encouragement and preservation of "feel" than anything else.

What pisses me off is that tapes from that era still play while the crap they sold us as supposedly lasting longer needs to be baked.

A low-pass filter is your friend making it sound loud but a bit more distant.

What's important is that the bass player is listening to exactly what gets recorded. Ear to finger integrity is crucial for all musicians or the dynamics are wrong.

This affected all people using old versions of the iLock manager and was not specific to particular plug-ins. My understanding is that because it operates at a very low system level, each version is time bombed to make it less susceptible to malware compromises. What sucks is that both Apple and Mic...

A few people are sustaining themselves today by touring house concerts.

I'm showing my age but some of my high school friends were earning $100 a night each, i.e. their bands got paid $500 a night in the mid 1960s. They could look forward to earning a middle class living playing music. That all went away by the '70s and musicians' pay has been a downward spiral since th...

My concern is that high school age musicians can no longer expect to earn a living playing music. That leaves us with just those who can afford music as a hobby.

Wow! "John Knowles: Bob, thanks for posting the original article. It's a shame that it attracted all these comments about what is and is not property. There are plenty of things in our culture/economy that have value only by consensus. We seem to be experiencing a major realignment of who gets ...