Archive for July, 2007
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
THE DRM MANIFESTO:
Reality For Musicians, Artists, Songwriters, their Lawyers
and Everyone Else Who Clearly Isn’t Paying Attention
In the Winner Take All in the Cage Match Between Music And The Net Are You Helping the Wrong Side Win?
By Moses Avalon
PROLOGUE: In March of 2007 EMI, facing serious strategic challenges, became the first Major label to issue DRM-free (no copy-protection) downloads on iTunes. To facilitate this, Apple’s CEO broke his promise to maintain uniform pricing of 99 cents: DRM-free will cost about 30% more than other sales. Response from the other three competing Major labels was shock and disappointment. Will they be forced to also do DRM-free to compete?
Two weeks later, the U.S. Copyright Office decided that Major labels will be allowed to charge higher rates to webcasters for streaming music. Response from Tech Companies was shock and disappointment. Will they have to pay labels more to provide the public with a radio service they don’t even charge for?
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Sunday, July 29th, 2007
Every Monday I highlight free plugins new and old that are worth checking out. See all posts in the Free Plugin Of The Week Series.
Steven Massey makes some of the best plugins for Pro tools. He is a former employee of Digidesign and Trillian Lane Labs. Steven has demos of his six plugins that have no time limit, never mute or beep. The limitations of the demos are: You cannot bypass the plugin, and you can’t save settings. You can work around this by recording the output to a new track, or by buying the full versions for the ridiculously low prices of $69-$89.
The TD5 is an analog tape delay plugin.
Simply put, the TD5 sounds and acts like a real-life vintage tape delay. Deep, thick, gritty, and three dimensional. The TD5 has up to 2 seconds of delay time, can sync to the Pro Tools tempo map, and provides a number of tonal options.
The TD5 comes in both RTAS and TDM plug-in types and supports all flavors of Pro Tools (v6 and higher).
The Full version is $79
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Sunday, July 29th, 2007
Andrew Dubber has written a free ebook called 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online, a 96 page pdf.
INTRODUCTION: The 20 Things
THING 01: Don’t believe the hype
THING 02: Hear / Like / Buy
THING 03: Opinion Leaders Rule
THING 04: Customise
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Sunday, July 29th, 2007
Terry Manning of Compass Point Studios has documented the progress of a recent project on the Prosoundweb: Whatever Works Forum.
Lots of pictures and brief explanations of techniques and mic placement. I really like the way they made booths for the guitars, I haven’t seen anything exactly like that yet.
Read it all here
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Sunday, July 29th, 2007
FXpansion has a whole lot of short artist interview on the site. Mostly dealing with how they incorporate FXpansion products like BFD and Guru into their music writing and live perfomances. Some great info here.
FXpansion Artist Profiles
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