Stefon Harris

The TED speech I watched was Stefon Harris: There are no mistakes on the bandstand. His speech was not just words, but music. The first six minutes are just the band playing music. This was a great way to start his speech because it caught the attention of the audience and provided an example of what he talks about. He shows the passion of the bandstand through his speech and his playing. He talks about mistakes in jazz as opportunities instead. Without reacting to it, you continue to make something beautiful out of it instead. He also describes it as accepting others ideas. Through his musical examples and words, Harris inspired the audience. He inspired them to look at music, and possibly life in a different way. Take things and make them into a melody instead of the end of the song....

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THE RIAA and Piracy

The Recording  Industry Association of America (RIAA) offers a lot of information to members of the  recording industry. One thing they are very popular for right now is the fight against piracy.  Internet and physical piracy have been a problem for the recording industry for years. Internet piracy, however, has really taken a toll on the industry over the last few years. On the RIAA website, they provide a lot of information on piracy. They list examples of Internet piracy, who it hurts, and even some things they are going to help stop piracy.  This section is not limited to online piracy; it also covers physical piracy. Though physical piracy has been overshadowed by internet piracy, it is still a problem in the music industry. The RIAA has many studies on piracy...

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Troy Germano opens new studio

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Pro Tools 10

Recently, Avid has released Pro Tools 10, a digital audio workstation used for recording and post production. This has come as a shock to many people. Just last ear, Avid released Pro Tools 9. This new version seems to have come out of nowhere. Though this new release comes with a lot of interesting and very useful things, I feel it is not the smartest business move for Avid. The new software costs $699. If you’re not lucky enough to be one of the people that has bought Pro Tools 9 recent enough to get a free update, it’ll run you close to $300, if not more. I don’t see many studios, large or small, wanting to fork out the money to update. With the economy the way it is at the moment, I think Avid should have waited to release this update. They could have done a lot more with it, especially...

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AEA Listening Room

Often times, a audio engineer will hold off on buying a microphone until they know how it sounds and have seen reviews on that. Well, AEA has an answer to this problem now. AEA, a ribbon microphone company has recently debuted their online listening room. This online listening room allows for the buyer to hear the certain microphones before they buy it. At this time, there are not many mics to listen to, but it is still a very interesting concept. The online listening room offers some samples with just the microphones and some that also use AEA preamps. The samples with the preamps are especially interesting. For some samples they not only include the isolated instrument track, but they also include the full mix so you can hear how the recorded instrument sits in the mix. As the author...

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