So you’ve just recorded and mixed your latest song digitally in Logic or ProTools, and gotten every little detail just the way you want it. But something, you decide, is “missing” from your mix. And it’s not just that — something actually seems to be wrong with it. Your ears detect it, and complain...
Warming Up Your Digital Mixes
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art, artist, artist compensation, artist royalties, cassette multitrack, commercial radio, compensation, content distribution, copyright, copyright royalty board, DAW, digital audio workstation, digital media, digital multitrack, free internet, garageband, indie, indie artist, indie artists, indie music, internet radio, internet radio business, internet radio fairness act, ipad, IRFA, kim dotcom, multitrack, music distribution, music platform, music streaming, pandora, pandora music, pandora radio, recording, recording artist, royalties, royalty payments, royalty rates, technology, the artist, tim westergren, willing buyer willing sellerAs sure as dark clouds gather in hurricane season, a storm is brewing around artist compensation. Art and technology are at odds. However, it wasn’t always that way. From the advent of cassette multitracks in the ’80s, to the arrival of digital multitracks in the ’90s, to the maturation of digital audio workstations in the...
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ADAT, alice despard, arms of kismet, DAW, DIY, east river pipe, f.m. cornog, fostex x-15, home recording, indie, indie artist, indie music, j. scott watson, kowtow popof, mark doyon, songwriting, studio recording, tascam 246 portastudio, tascam 388 studio 8, the black keys, the intentions, wampeters, wampus, wampus sound studioThe first recording band I was in made albums on an all-in-one portable studio with eight tracks of audio on 1/4-inch, analog tape. Having cut my teeth until then on various four-track cassette decks, I found this reel-to-reel, hard-wired hulk with close-to-pro EQ and signal routing to be something like a miracle. Next to...