Music Week is running a national poll to assess user interest in quality audio files for music.It's
obvious that audio professionals would want their work to be
distributed in a format of the highest quality, but is this the best way
to achieve it? Please vote here and leave your comme...
To add a new topic, first create a new post in your own Blog, then select it for inclusion in the Vocal Booth.
Mar
12
Jan
27
The Mastering Group of the Music Producers Guild, led by mastering engineers, Ray Staff & Barry Grint, proposes the inclusion of ISRC codes within digital audio music files.This will bring major advantages to the music recording industry as illustrated in this recent MPG news item.Please ...
Jan
16
Thanks to everyone involved in putting on the Q-Time 2 event on Monday, and especially to Tom Robinson, the panel and all the contributors for sticking their necks out. I had a couple of points I'd have liked to have made and I had my hand up a few times but the dangling mics didn't get...
Dec
28
To Date we have been exhausting our old Stock of GP9 and other such loveliness, however it's now all gone. :-( The RMG stuff I've done a couple of things on has left all involved a little underwhelmed. What is the ATR like?Has anyone had the chance to A-B? Can I get some thoughts?
Dec
26
Dear fellow Engineers, MPG members and, AdministratorsI was truly touched this year to see that someone nominated me for the MPG Recording Engineer Award. For years I have dedicated myself to trying to create the best sounding Multis I can rather than going down the all too familiar route of &quo...
Nov
12
http://drewbang.tumblr.com/post/35567594517/plugins-vs-outboard-the-workflow-diaries
Oct
03
This is one for the fans of Ben Goldacre out there - a 'food for thought' piece from the excellent and provocative Justin Collettihttp://trustmeimascientist.com/2012/08/06/are-you-superstitious-about-your-sound/
Sep
14
Amanda's appeal for musicians to play for free at her gigs:http://www.amandapalmer.net/blog/20120821/Steve's response:http://www.themusicnetwork.com/music-news/artists/2012/09/14/steve-albini-takes-a-jab-at-amanda-palmers-ethics/Then vote and discuss it here - comments please, below
Sep
04
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19284058How refreshing to hear Prof Susan Rogers say that she believes the reason so few women become producers is that '..basically women aren't interested'. Very few men are drawn to midwifery as a career but is this perceived as a pro...
Jul
23
MPG mastering awards.
Currently an engineer is nominated and then asked to provide copies of the music they have mastered within the eligible period. The music provided is post mastering and as per the finished product.
There have been a number of opinions expressed that this does not enabl...
Jul
15
Please leave your comments in this blog. The directors of the MPG are very interested in reading your opinions and will be monitoring this thread constantly.
Jul
02
I think it would be really helpful
to have a private discussion among the MPG members about
how producers who have
not had hits and the visibility that goes with it market
themselves and get more work in on a practical level. When I
say work I mean paid work....
Jun
21
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=8731563568b2b734e43c5dc5028fe0d9I think this is a must see for all of us.Earlier today the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the proposed merger of Universal Music and EMI. A good friend of the MPG....Martin Mills, was on the pane...
May
01
I've had an aticle published in the APRS Summer Bulletin, entitled "Thinking out of the box" - http://www2.aprs.co.uk/Default.aspx?pageId=1293870It outlines my approach to marketing a new music business in rural Northumberland with a negligible budget. Any thoughts or comments?
Apr
19
Do you agree?Read this blog by Helienne Lindvall and then come back and comment here
Apr
04
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan12/articles/sounding-off-0112.htm
Mar
15
Hi allI'm currently in the process of setting up a new production company and was looking over my standard production contract the other day, it's basically well out of date.Anyone got any good, up to date contracts, release agreements and / or terms and conditions? The business is cove...
Mar
06
You might have seen this recent Facebook posting by Lester Chambers of 60's U.S. band, The Chambers Brothers:https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=297306270334954&set=a.119083791490537.18296.100001667497995&type=1&theaterIt's attracted a load of interest and th...
Feb
15
http://www.jazzwax.com/2012/02/interview-rudy-van-gelder-part-3.html
Feb
14
http://youtu.be/SNfTXQ5BzI4
Feb
08
This is good! http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/02/jack-whites-third-man-records-embracing-the-past-and-the-future.html
Feb
05
Music sales charts don't seem to mean much these days - how do we know whether or not a record is a "hit"? The number of Twitter "mentions"? Facebook "likes"?
Jan
13
Read Bob Lefsetz's blog on Sound Quality here and let us know what you think by replying on this page.
Nov
03
So After 10 Years of great service, I'm thinking of purchasing a second Neve 88R for Sphere. Fairly simple concept right? Wrong! Because apparently a 10 year old design with components that can only have gone down in price, the desk, a 72 ( ok it's big but it's for a big room) will...
Oct
24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWoqnuRBzgA
Oct
22
Avid recently announced the release of version 10 of Pro Tools software.
It's a major upgrade, offering many new features (details here). However,
there is some debate about the cost. To upgrade PT HD from 9 to 10
costs £754 (inc VAT), and from 8 to 10 costs £1138 (inc VAT).Many feel t...
Oct
10
Jul
30
i stumbled over this recently and thought
it might be of interest to mastering engineers.
http://www.musiclikeneverbefore.com/index.html
i have some questions to kick off a
discussion if anyone wants to participate:
does anyone know anything about this
operation or its perpetrator...
May
31
To anyone outside the music business, this seems obvious ("of course they should be paid...."), but to many people on the verges of, "the industry", recorded music should be available free to anyone. Don't you agree that people should be paid for their work? If recorded m...
May
09
I read this today - from a blog by music industry pundit, Bob Lefsetz:
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<br/>"Peter cuts tracks to tape. But what about the hard time getting tape? He just uses the same reels over and over again. Since he transfers the tracks off so soon, there's no print-through....
