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Willbe has a excellent set of back drops. Better than mine me thinks. It will be fun making instruments for them. Real hard ware inspired yet original in that it is not all music hardware. They also is a nice refill available.
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Piracy Again
The news on this front is of course oink.cd. Read about it at CDM, redwriteweb, TechCrunch, & pitchfork. There are much more. Because of the amount comment on this I will only say piracy effects all media yet the movie, television, and software business seem to be doing a lot better with out busting out the big club of the law.
Mics & Recording
CDM had this crazy video of a sm58 torture test. Yeah it is true they are tough. Its tough cousin the sm57 has a good review at Tweakheadz along with is good article on mic preamps that opened my eyes a little.
Dorninger has an interesting entry on field recording with some good links. I like recording of a video game arcade. Brought back those days more than anything else experienced. I glad people capture that kind of thing.
Audio Conversion
Any-Audio-Converter is a free audio conversion tool that seems alright.
Virtual Modular
Analog Box 2 is a cool little object oreiented modular synth. Fun to play with if you like this kind of thing.
A BIG Recording Space
Need to record some samples in pristine echo & inference free silence but you anechoic chamber is a bit to small. You might check into rent this place out. It might just be big enough.
Weirdness
I might be in the minority but I never tire of weird instruments here is some.
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de la Mancha has added another plugin to a fine collection. It is Basic a VST synth inspired by the Commodore 64. If if like that SID chip sound or just get misty when it comes to the early days of personal computing you should give it a try.
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Mellonman is freaking amazing. Most guys won’t even consider trying to build something like this. Using walkmen(what the hell is the correct plural form of “walkman”) was inspired and a little crazy. If someone turns something like this in for the circuit bending challenge I would be very suspicious.
Pot of Gold On The Other Side or Radiohead Again
There is no hard official numbers. Yet, but there have been rumors, polls, surveys and a lot of comment. Gigwise estimated that the album “sold” 1.2 million downloads the first day. Other guess and estimate have been right around that number. If you have been interested in this whole deal you probably have read that and that $8 bucks was the the supposed average.
This is the first time anything like this has been a such big deal. I hope others who certainly will try this will learn from it. They will have to to succeed. There should have been more information up front. These days I mostly rock the ipod mostly so 160k was find. But I understand that people were pissed about especially since other Radiohead digital downloads were always had a high bit rate. Some of it is over blown though. Those bitching that is unlistenable are full of it. If you can more about the sound quality than the emotion use might as well being buying DVD audio of Yanni. My favorite music listening memories was listening to an independent AM radio station that played great music you could not find anywhere else. The sound quality sucked but I was lucky to have heard it and would trade a $20,000 Hi-Fi to be able to listen to it again. But I get the point. Maybe set up different price point for different bit rates of just go high to start with. The possible extra track on the CD is kind of shitty also. These thing should have been out there for the start. But still personal I don’t feel cheated.
The whole thing is a little weird. I cared about album sales for the first time ever. More people talked about how it was sold rather than how good it was. It did get good reviews mostly if anyone paid attention. I would agree with that it is not their best not there worst. The band with no record company payola and promotion created the most buzz a rock band has had in a long time. I sure it will help that tour. They also most likely made a lot of money charging mostly nothing. I heard it referred to as the rich getting richer. But hey I don’t have a problem with bands making money. If there are good they deserve it more than a corrupt infrastructure of leeches. It is better than the labels getting rich doing everything wrong morally and business wise which in their case is “business as usual.”
I think this or something close to this can work clearly. But you should know what you are getting exactly in the way of quality and a sample tracks would not hurt either. Also take advantage of the medium and offer format options to meet the needs or different people. Some art & a track lists would not hurt either. But most of all it just needs more openness.