Random music news for Friday, December 22, 2023
I swear if I hear that Kars for Kids jingle one more time the red mist will descend and I won’t be held responsible for what happens next. As for music news for
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Random music news for Thursday, March 31, 2022
No YouTube video has been viewed this many times in such a short period of time. Surprised? And the memes are great. Now let’s try some music news for March 31, 2022. After
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: Studio stories with producer Chris Birkett
[Let’s call this reading week. New episodes resume in seven days. – AC] Like a lot of music fans, I’m fascinated by what goes on in the kitchen: the recording studio. How is
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After you watch this video on tricks employed by music producers, you will never listen to a pop song without suspicion ever again. And yes, there’s more involved that just Auto Tune.
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How Many Producers Does It Take to Win a Grammy?
A quick Google search for “How many producers does it take to change a light bulb?” returns the following: One, but if you don’t like it, we can always change it later, when
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A New Way of Swapping Music Online
As part of what I do, I’m always sending big files from the studio in my house: Music, interviews, commercial reads, TV narrations–the lot. Some of these files are awfully big since the
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Neil Young’s Speech to Producers and Engineers
Among all the pre-Grammy events is a party helped by the Producers and Engineers Wing of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, the people who run the Grammys. Neil Young was honoured
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