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Jan
13
Nov
03
So After 10 Years of great service, I'm thinking of purchasing a second Neve 88R for Sphere. Fairly simple concept right? Wrong! Because apparently a 10 year old design with components that can only have gone down in price, the desk, a 72 ( ok it's big but it's for a big room) will set me back a ...
Oct
24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWoqnuRBzgA
Oct
22
Avid recently announced the release of version 10 of Pro Tools software.
It's a major upgrade, offering many new features (details here). <br/><br/>However,
there is some debate about the cost. To upgrade PT HD from 9 to 10
costs £754 (inc VAT), and from 8 to 10 costs £1138 (inc...
Oct
10
Jul
30
i stumbled over this recently and thought
it might be of interest to mastering engineers.
http://www.musiclikeneverbefore.com/index.html
i have some questions to kick off a
discussion if anyone wants to participate:
does anyone know anything about this
operation or its perpetrator...
May
31
To anyone outside the music business, this seems obvious ("of course they should be paid...."), but to many people on the verges of, "the industry", recorded music should be available free to anyone. <br/><br/>Don't you agree that people should be paid for their wo...
May
09
I read this today - from a blog by music industry pundit, Bob Lefsetz:
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<br/>"Peter cuts tracks to tape. But what about the hard time getting tape? He just uses the same reels over and over again. Since he transfers the tracks off so soon, there's no print-through. Alt...
Mar
21
A reference to this article:<br/><br/>"A consortium including streaming music service we7, ISP BT, Yahoo, the
Internet Advertising Bureau and production firm Somethin’ Else have announced
a research project called Apollo, backed by £1.8 million of Technology
Strategy Board ...
Feb
21
Many record companies, especially the majors, now demand that mixers and producers supply stems (i.e. sub-mixes of the various components of a mix) along with the actual master mix files.<br/><br/>They don't necessarily provide the resources (i.e. studio time, extra fees) to achieve t...
Feb
13
I am an up coming producer and a have a very fair contract with clients. However, more recently clients are not happy signing a contract, as they feel that major labels will not touch them. How am I supposed to protect myself? And to honest my contract certainly protects the client and their mate...
Feb
12
Several producers and mix engineers have been approached by record companies in recent years with requests for mixing "on spec".
<br/><br/>Essentially, several people are asked to mix a track from an as yet un-mixed album, without any kind of fee or promise of royalty pay...
Feb
12
Dear Members,
I am a relatively new member to the MPG and not quite sure how things are done - but...
I have two questions;
1/ The legalities, and record company use, of Stems. (memories of the SSL situation in the 1980's)
2/ Mixing on 'Spec'. I have been offered three since Christmas. I gues...
Jan
28
This quote from Mark Mulligan (http://blogs.forrester.com/mark_mulligan/11-01-26-why_and_how_digital_music_products_have_indeed_failed)"There’s been a lot of buzz (some positive and not so positive!) about comments I have made about the current state of the digital music market i...
Jan
26
So people, whether it's Sphere, Abbey, Air, Metrop or Sarm, these establishments are the very best studios in the land, they are temples of good sound. This is where the training of future COMPETENT engineers and producers occurs. These days anyone with an LE system is calling themselves a produ...
Jan
09
I am very pleased that Sound On Sound has printed my contribution to the "Credit Where Credit is Due" in their January Issue.. Check it out: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan11/articles/sounding-off-0111.htm
Dec
28
(taken from his interview at the website of Timespace)....Finally, for all those aspiring electronic/trip hop producers out there, what are your Top 3 Studio Tips? Work quickly especially when writing , it means you still like the track when it comes to mixing it. Also in hindsight it´...
Dec
23
This makes good reading! http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/12/whats-ahead-for-2011-george-howard-i-hope-well-see-greater-clarity-in-licensing-fees-for-streaming.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_campaign=0&utm_content=395530
Dec
19
"No Better Than This", produced by the legendary T-Bone Burnett, was recorded in a selection of different acoustic environments, using a single RCA 77DX ribbon microphone (although in the videos, it's a RCA 44), onto a portable Ampex 601 mono tape machine. The performances have a great ...
Nov
17
LinkedIn Wayne Ward has sent you a message. Date: 11/16/2010 Subject: Hi Audio mastering $15/song (first song free) Send it to me at unclelight@hotmail.com
Nov
06
I see absolutely no reason to upgrade from PT 8 HD to PT 9 HD. It would provide me with:
More aux tracks 256 > 512 - unnecessary
More busses 128 > 256 - unnecessary
AAF/OMF/MXF file interchange - unnecessary
Core Audio support (32 channels) - unnecessary for me
MP3 export - I p...
Oct
29
The BBC is broadcasting The Electric Proms in what they call "HD Sound", but it's only 320 kbs, AAC format - hardly high definition.
Of course, it's better than 128 kbs, but it's misleading the public.
Oct
25
Brian Eno said: On the end of an era
"I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of ti...
Oct
09
Just finished off some direct to stereo location recordings I did with the West London Comhaltas and Caroline Regan.
Just armed with laptop with Logic, a Fireface 400, a stereo pair of KM184s, a stereo pair of AEA R84s, an AEA TRP and a pair of headphones I recorded their 5-20 strong Irish Folk ...
Oct
06
After a long speculation and a lot of people (including myself) waiting for it, it's out:
http://www.avid.com/US/products/Pro-Tools-HD-Native
while a lot of people complain about the need for a PCIe card it doesn't bother me that much, as that was really to be expected (as a connection to t...
Oct
04
A debate has been brewing over the past few months at a website, linked below, regarding the nature and operation of the MPG. Here are a few quotes: "...this is exactly what a guild is for: keeping people like you out..." "I am an active member and the MPG has done huge amounts ...
Jul
19
Why should music fans buy music when they can stream it for free? - at any of these music streaming sites: http://www.unifiedmanufacturing.com/blog/2010/07/independent-music-10-ways-to-share-music-on-twitter/ - and they're all intergrating with Twitter to make it even easier to freely share musi...
Jul
01
MPG members - the organisation of the MPG Awards 2011 is underway, and we need your help. We would like to involve the membership by asking for suggestions for the Joe Meek Award For Innovation.This award represents production talent which, in the spirit of Joe Meek himself, has displayed tru...
Jun
24
Anyone heard about this?
http://www.endlessanalog.com/home
May
01
Discussion of the new Digital Economy Act
In relation to the Digital Economy Bill, now the Digital Economy Act, there has been much misinformation and confusion, and the board of the MPG has arranged two separate meetings with OFCOM, and Geoff Taylor, chairman of the BPI, in order to clari...
