Music

IndieProMix

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One of the biggest parts to making a song sound good is having an experienced engineer to mix and master your work. It’s great to see professionals get together and give indie artists a way to afford to have their songs sound top notch.

Master checklist for mixing a song

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This is a great list. The more I mix a song, the worse it seems to get because after a while you just keep tweaking until there is nothing left to the original magic of the song. That’s when I usually walk away for a few days and come back refreshed.

How concert experiences have changed with the smartphone

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Michael Mulvey:

In the 2010’s photo, the connection is no longer one-to-one between the audience and the performers. A middleman has been inserted between the two sides. What this means is the priority is to capture a great version of what’s happening, not to experience the performance.

Just look at those two photos. I’m guilty of doing this at recent shows too.

Line 6 Sonic Port for iPhone and iPad

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Sonic Port delivers inspiring guitar tones and best-in-class audio quality on your iPod touch, iPhone and iPad. Jam with the tones of your favorite artists, connect keyboards and speakers to create your mobile recording studio, or plug into your amp and play live. Every time, Sonic Port gives you pro-quality sound with GarageBand, Line 6 Mobile POD, Jammit and other CoreAudio music apps.

This looks incredible. I’m getting one.

Google All Access music service coming to iOS

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Jordan Kahn:

After launching its new Google Play All Access music streaming service earlier this month at Google I/O, Google’s head of Android Sundar Pichai just confirmed during his interview at the D11 conference that the service will be making its way to iOS. Sundar said the service would be available on iOS in the next few weeks.

This is going to get interesting.

iTunes Festival headliners

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Apple on Thursday announced the headliners for the annual iTunes Festival. The event takes place every September in London, England.

NiN announces new album

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Trent Reznor recently spilled the beans on the first new Nine Inch Nails album in five years.

The Crossroads of Sabbath

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The Crossroads of Sabbath walking tour is an opportunity to walk in the footsteps of Ozzy, Geezer, Tony and Bill and learn about the environment that shaped them. The tour lasts approximately 90 minutes. The route has been programmed to finish at one of the finest pubs in the country where excellent ales and Thai food might tempt you.

I would love to do this.

Top 10 audio compressors

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Bobby Owsinski takes a look at some of his favorite compressors. I love the ones he chose, especially the Fairchild and the Universal Audio LA series.

Mackie mixers with iPad control

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There have been a number of mixers that utilize iOS devices that I never really liked, but this looks promising. It’s the first one I’ve seen that I’d like to try.

Zakk Wylde, others celebrate Les Paul’s birthday

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Zakk Wylde, Lee Ritenour, JJ Grey & Mofro, and Rock Candy Funk Party (RCFP)–featuring Tal Bergman, Joe Bonamassa, Ron DeJesus, and Mike Merritt–will take The Iridium stage to celebrate Les Paul’s 98th birthday with more than a week of shows June 3-12.

I was at the first celebration at the Iridium in New York after Les died sitting at a table with Zakk Wylde and Steven Van Zandt. Jeff Beck played that night — it was absolutely amazing.

Google’s All Access subscription music service

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Jon Seff for Macworld:

Like Spotify and its ilk, All Access offers millions of tracks (although Google didn’t say how many millions, or which music labels for that matter) for streaming on Android phones and tablets, as well as from a Web browser. And in the process, Google has also taking a big swing at its Android app partners like Spotify, Rdio, and Rhapsody.

It seems suspicious to me that Google won’t tell us which music labels they have or how many songs they have. That immediately leads to the assumption that it’s not that good.

I’m not at all surprised that Google is taking a swing at its competitors. The third-party app developers and services are making money from Google’s operating system and users — it makes sense that Google would want to cash in on some of that.