By: Nick Ratcliffe
With continually dropping CD sales and the rise of mp3 streaming services, consumers seem to be forced to choose between recording quality and the use of a streaming service. Considering the popularity of iPod ear buds and music played on cellphone speakers, audio quality may no longer be a [...]

By: Connor
I think everyone can agree that commercials largely have 3 things in common. They are all tolerated in exchange for ‘free’ tv, annoying, and loud. Commercials rub me the same way as those mouse-over activation emoticon ads that scream ‘HELLO!!!!’ 3 times louder than whatever i’m listening to, which is to say [...]

By James Pew
Yesterday I posted an excerpt from my new book, Studio Manifesto: Exploring the Possibilities of Indie, called The power of visualization in a new age of indie music. As I explained yesterday the book is one part “reconsideration” of Marshall McLuhan’s ground breaking media theory in the context of today’s social media movement, [...]

By: Connor
Are we killing rock by over-producing it? More importantly, is this a conscious decision, or are artists doing what everyone else does? What’s the harm in snapping the snare to the beat, or tightening up the bass? Personally, I don’t think it’s a huge deal – to a degree. Then [...]

By: Connor
Not only does using mass amounts of compression and limiting make your music sound terrible, it bombards your fans with the fact that you don’t trust them. You don’t trust them to listen to your art, don’t trust them to be capable of making their own judgments about it’s subtlety, don’t trust them [...]