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The Annual Podcast Of Podcasters Roundtable – 2011

Big Al — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:30:56 +0000

This is the second annual Podcast of Podcasters Roundtable. This is where several individual audio/recording podcasters get together for a “year in review” discussion about all things audio. Oh yes, yours truly is on the panel.

This time we talk about the latest trends in recording, mixing and gear, as well as our favorites from this year’s NAMM show.

You can also subscribe to my podacast, The Project Studio Network, by clicking here.

On the panel for this event:

Yours truly, Big Al Wagner
Ryan Canestro – The Home Recording Show
Jon Tidey – The Home Recording Show
Matt McGlynn – Recording Hacks
Slau – Sessions With Slau
Ronan C. Murphy – Ronan’s Recording Show
Dave Chick – Inside Home Recording

Thanks to Ryan Canestro for organizing the whole thing!

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Music Technology & a Few Sucking Sounds … Part II

Big Al — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:07:34 +0000

Here’s the beginning of the follow up from Dave Chick from my previous post.

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Dave Chick

In my previous blog entry, I mused about the possibility that Music Technology itself may contribute to a “suckage” factor in today’s music.

This mental excursion was the result of listening to Joe Chiccarelli in an interview on Electronic Musician’s monthly podcast where he stated that he felt that the low barriers present for artists to record, produce and distribute their music has deteriorated the overall quality of music you hear on radio these days.

I wanted to touch on one more thing before I let it rest – give a bit of a real-life example that I came across that frustrated me a bit.

For those of you who know me, or tune into Derek and I on the Inside Home Recording podcast, you’ll probably have heard me mention that I’ve been teaching a theory course at the Art Institute of Vancouver.

I’m about to mark the second of two assignments for the term. Their first effort was good overall, but there were a few instances where folks were … well a little TOO reliant on technology. I’d asked them to piece together a “song” using stuff we’d covered in class: 8-bar verse, 8-bar chorus. Be as simple or complex as you want. I gave an example of what I was looking for too…

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Modern Music Making Tools = Increased Suckage Factor?

Big Al — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:34:47 +0000

Dave Chick

Modern Music Making Tools = Increased Suckage Factor? is a really interesting post over on Dave Chick’s blog. I wanted to highlight a comment on the topic made by Derek K. Miller from the the Inside Home Recording podcast. I love the way everything below is summed up in a tidy and meaningful manner.

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1. Computer-based music recording lets people construct tunes without composing, i.e. without figuring out anything in advance. I know I’m guilty of that. It means that it becomes a process of construction rather than of composition. Some great and interesting music can come about that way, but it also prompts further laziness — just sit down and build a song, rather than trying to write one.

2. How often now do we get a bunch of musicians in a room and into a groove? No matter how much “swing” you add to MIDI quantization, it’s not going to sound like that, and music with bands even laying down a rhythm track live in the studio is pretty rare these days, at least in pop, R&B, hip-hop, and rock. Those jazz cats still do it, as do others, but you don’t hear much of it.

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