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Preparing your tracks for mastering is crucial to achieving a professional, polished sound. In this guide, we cover the essential steps to ensure your music is ready for the mastering process, including tips on keeping your mix clean, exporting in the right format, organizing your files, and providing a reference track. Proper preparation not only enhances the final product but also streamlines the workflow with your mastering engineer. Follow these best practices to give your tracks the best chance to shine.

Control 24 Power Supply Repair

Repairing a power supply can seem daunting, but it's a valuable skill for any studio tech, especially for those working wi

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Nick Landis
Free Plugins

Who doesn't love free plugins?

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Nick Landis
It’s The Sound Baby!

Originally published in the October 2023 issue of Rock an

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John McNerney

Sound Exchange and The Recording Academy have partnered in advocating for legislation and educating the community about performance rights.

 

Introduced March 19, 2015 the Allocation for Music Producers Act or AMP Act (H.R. 1457) says this:

OwnCloud is a file sharing platform like DropBox or similar services.  They have paid enterprise solutions and free open source offerings.  Go to https://owncloud.org/ to learn more about the open source choices.  They let you install the system on your own server giving you complete and total control over the files.  This is especially good if security is a concern or privacy is needed.  I was exploring this solution for a file sharing solution that I didn't have to

Martin Theophilus profiled Terra Nova mastering for the Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording. Jerry and I were happy to talk about analog recorders.

Published on Apr 27, 2015

ID3 tags are where metadata with most MP3 files is stored.  It isn't really a standard because different people/companies made contributions, but because of its wide use almost every program that plays or creates MP3 files can read this metadata.  There is so much information you can put in these files but almost noone uses most of the fields.  You can embedd album covers, booklet pages, titles, artists, genre, ISRC, UPC, website links, and the list goes on.  Oh...

So, I went to Viva Big Bend music festival in West Texas last weekend.  I went out to attend a Grammy networking event we were hosting during the festiva.  This is the third year that there has been a "Meet the Grammys" networking event.  I took the opportunity to take the trip to the beautiful Big Bend area and I also took some pictures.  Here are a few of them.

First, lets start with what 'two-factor authentication' is. It involves two steps to logging in.  With one step, you just needed your username and password.  You entered the info and you're logged in; this is one step.  In two-factor authenticataion (or two-step authentication) uses more than just your username and password. For example, one of the first two-step authentication methods I came across was with my Discover Card account.

Samsung make nice monitors.  They seem to look better than lots of the other choices on the shelf at the big box store where we got it and we also have an HDTV made by Samsung.  So, when my computer monitor, the Samsung 2232GW started to go on the fritz, I was a little bummed.  It started with a few seconds of flickering every time it turned on or woke back up.  It would flicker for a few seconds and then settle down and be just fine.