In Defense of the Amateur
It’s hard to say exactly how many professional musicians there are in the United States, but the best guess from the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics is that we have anywhere from around 70,000 to...
View ArticleAudio Subjectivists vs Audio Objectivists: A False Dichotomy
There’s a war on in the audio world. A very silly war. It crops up from time to time, wasting energy and helping to polarize opinions about things that just aren’t worth fighting about. I’m talking...
View ArticleBjörn This Way – What Makes Sweden So Good at Making Pop Music?
This is a post by associate editor Blake Madden Having lived in South Africa for a couple of years as a teenager, my memory of mid-90s culture can diverge wildly from that of my friends. Thanks to a...
View Article“YOUR ARTICLE HERE”— Get Paid to Write for Scientist
This January, Scientist started selling advertisements on what is now about 30,000 page views each month. (EDIT: 8/27/13 We’re now up to about 70,000 reads a month and still growing fast.) The primary...
View ArticleInputOutput Podcast: David Lowery and the Future of Artists’ Rights
In this episode of InputOutput, Geoff and Eli talk to David Lowery, the former frontman for Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven, who is now an economics professor at the University of Georgia. Last...
View ArticleDave Grohl’s Sound City: A Music Movie Review
Towards the end of Dave Grohl’s directorial debut, the rock documentary Sound City, drummer Mick Fleetwood warns us about “the downside” to all the technological advances that have so changed the face...
View ArticleSound Information: Metadata For Your Music
In the days of vinyl and tape cassettes, providing your listeners with information about your music was simple: Everything from song titles to song-writers, lyrics to album art, engineering credits to...
View ArticleThe Best Snare Drums For The Recording Studio
It’s no overstatement to say that a good snare sound is essential to the backbone of almost any kind of pop record – whether that means hip hop, country, speed metal, R&B, punk rock, psychedelia,...
View ArticleRecording Studio Retreats – Spring 2013
Bustling cities like New York, L.A., San Francisco and Nashville may boast more recording studios per square foot than just about anywhere else on earth. With such high concentrations of talented...
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