Some new interesting recording technologies . . .

[redavide]

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3032642/wh...cording-studio

[KevWind]

Be interesting to see if it actually gets any traction.

I'm am not sure you can actually accurately put a mastering engineer's knowledge, experience, process of decision making and gut feel, into an algorithm.

[fazool]

If you thought the Internet was finished disrupting the music industry, hang tight. With music consumption and distribution having been fully upended, the other side of the equation is ripe for change: Production. Accessible music creation software has been around for years, but a new wave of cloud-powered tools aims to revolutionize things even further

The sale and marketing of music was totally upended by technology. Napster changed the way music was distributed, then Apple finished it off with iTunes and digital downloads.

Changing the production front-end of the music industry will not upend much of anything.

At the back-end where all the consumers reside, change is effected by everyone. At the front-end where the music is created, change is only effected by a miniscule percentage of the population.

In other words, three billion people might buy music digitally now. But a total landscape shift would result in maybe thirty thousand people making music differently.

People already have access to produce music without a pro now - and they do it every day.

This whole article is overhyped nonsense. Don't even bother clicking the link

[Bob Womack]

Just by way of contrast, the latest trend in studio construction might interest you. As you may know, for several years there was a trend towards democratizing recording fueled by the market being flushed by inexpensive equipment and software. Large studios closed shop in droves because clients were recording their proects at home, one instrument at a time and the studios were no longer getting whole bands in to block book their time. That lead to a dearth of studios that were large enough and well-equipped enough to handle tracking a full band.

What has happened is that producers have begin noticing that music created one instrument at a time doesn't have the vibe created by that human interaction of a band playing together. There has been a trend back towards getting the bands to play together and getting the vibe of a live performance. To accommodate that, the latest recording construction trend is towards studios that are large enough to accommodate tracking sessions with an entire band and have a large enough mic locker to allow these projects to be tracked. The vintage console and mic market has burgeoned as a result the new dealers and console restoration companies coming online practically every day. Now, these new large studios are more modestly-priced than the old big houses were and tend to only have one or two rooms rather than three or four and they are keyed into the latest technologies that allow easy transportation and sharing of the product.

This was covered in the latest "facility edition" of Mix Magazine and has been discussed in other recording magazines as well. So, while one trend is towards allowing greater isolation of the musicians, the other is back towards making music socially, essentially the old way. We'll see where it goes.

Bob

[Ty Ford]

I'm sorry, I blinked and missed it.. Was the emperor wearing any clothes?

Regards,

Ty Ford

PS: Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD do something.

PPS: or not.

[ukejon]

To borrow Mork's epithet, sounds like a load of shazbot!

[muscmp]

seems like this has already been around for quite a while and it is already old fashioned!

play music!