SXSW Announces Applications are openSXSW have sent out a reminder that applications are open for the Music Festival, SXSW Pitch, SXSW Innovation Awards, and now is your chance to enter a phenomenal session idea for the 2024 Conference via SXSW PanelPicker®. 

Learn more below, make note of the deadlines, and mark your calendars. And ICYMI: registration for the 2024 event and Film & TV Festival submissions both open on Tuesday, August 1, so get ready, March will be here before you know it!

PanelPickerENTER YOUR SPEAKING PROPOSAL FOR THE SXSW CONFERENCE THROUGH JULY 23

Music FestivalAPPLY TO PERFORM AT OUR LEGENDARY INDUSTRY SHOWCASE THROUGH OCTOBER 27

SXSW PitchBRING YOUR STARTUP TO SX! ENTRIES ARE OPEN THROUGH NOVEMBER 12

Innovation AwardsHONORING INNOVATION IN THE CONNECTED WORLD. APPLY THROUGH NOVEMBER 12

After Nelly’s reported $50m deal with HarbourView, company buys ‘select’ recorded music and publishing assets from Wiz KhalifaHarbourView Equity Partners announces its second deal with a US hip-hop star this week
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Live Nation expands into meditation music app space with ‘Mindful Nation’The growth of audio streaming has led to an overlap between the music business and the practice of mindfulness and meditation which presents an opportunity that a growing number of businesses are seizing. A few examples: Streaming service Deezer has launched Zen by Deezer, a wellbeing app that features music and sounds, guided Yoga sessions, … Continued
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9 Reasons Why Every Musician on Instagram should be active on ThreadsEvery musician and creator with almost any sized following on Instagram should sign up and be active on Meta and Instagram’s new Twitter-like social platform Threads. Posts on Threads can. Continue reading
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SoundCloud Artist Discounts top 25 with addition of Adobe, Discord, Rap Plug & SquarespaceSoundCloud has partnered with Squarespace, Adobe, Discord, and Rap Plug to add to the list of 25 benefits and discounts offered to registered SoundCloud artists. “Being an artist today often. Continue reading
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10 types of musicians you DON’T want to beFrom Awkward Moments to Valuable Lessons: How to be a decent person in the music industry. by CRISTINA CANO from CD Baby’s DIY Musician As musicians, sometimes we can all. Continue reading
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The MLC Issues Quarterly ReportIn June, The MLC's CEO Kris Ahrend, testified in Nashville before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, at a field hearing entitled “Five Years Later — The Music Modernization Act.” In addition to answering questions about The MLC’s work from the Committee members in attendance, Kris provided an update on The MLC’s operations, including the growth to more than 28,000 rightsholder Members and the distribution of more than $1 billion in royalties to date. The MLC is grateful for the Subcommittee’s time and for the participation of all of the other stakeholders who testified, to address the work of The MLC and all those across the industry working to ensure that rightsholders receive the royalties they are due under the blanket mechanical license. To read Kris’s full written statement, click here.

The MLC’s 2022 Annual Report is now available on our website. The report offers a look into our second full year of operations, key performance metrics from 2022, a financial summary and more.

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On May 23, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) issued its initial rate determination for the Phono 3 rate period. This initial determination and the publication of the corresponding regulations that accompany the initial determination represent the next important step in the CRB’s process of finalizing the rates for the Phono 3 rate period.   Once the rate determination is finalized and published in the Federal Register, DSPs will have 6 months to deliver revised data and any royalties they may owe under the final Phono 3 rates — both for the historical unmatched usage previously reported (for 2018, 2019 and 2020) and for usage under the blanket license previously reported (for 2021 and 2022). The MLC has already begun working with DSPs to prepare for their delivery of this revised usage data. For more information, you can read more and check out our timeline here. 

In May, we completed running our final set of historical unmatched data files through our internal matching process. During the Congressional Field Hearing in Nashville, we announced that we had matched nearly 70% of the historical unmatched royalties transferred to us by DSPs. That means that nearly $300 million in historical royalties will be eligible to be distributed to Members provided they have claimed their shares of the works that we’ve matched to those historical royalties. Members can use our Claiming Tool to search for — and claim — any missing shares of their songs that other Members have registered with The MLC, and Members can use our Registration Tools to register any songs that have not yet been registered with us.   Members can also use our Matching Tool to search for uses of their works in the remaining unmatched data we have for those historical royalties. (The one exception is the historical data we received from FanLabel, which contains issues that FanLabel has not been able to rectify.) By providing our Members with full visibility into all of our remaining unmatched sound recording data, we have fully illuminated the "black box" for digital mechanicals for the first time in history and given Members the ability to help us eliminate the black box by proposing matches to their registered works. We’ve already reviewed and approved matches for more than 800,000 previously unmatched groups of recordings that our Members submitted using the Matching Tool. Once we approve a proposed match submitted by a Member, they will be able to receive any previously unmatched historical royalties we received for their song and any unmatched blanket royalties we have received since The MLC launched full operations.

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Billboard: How’s the Music Modernization Act Working? Congress Gives Landmark Legislation 5-Year Review Music Row Magazine: The MLC Crosses the $1 Billion MilestoneBillboard: Songwriters’ Streaming Royalties Have Been Determined (Finally)Music Tectonics Podcast: Inside The MLC With CEO Kris AhrendMusic Connection: The MLC Announces Events for Pride and Black Music Month

Queen shows no sign of fading into history as band’s earnings jump 4.3% to $50m in 2022Latest annual report published by Queen Productions Ltd.
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TikTok’s parent has launched an AI music making app. What might this mean for the video platform’s music licensing talks?How might the launch of Ripple, an AI-powered music making app, play into the short-form video platform's future licensing negotiations
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New Spotify, Apple, Amazon, YouTube US subscriber stats from NMPAWe’ve got new US-paid subscriber stats for Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube, and Pandora, courtesy of National Music Publishers Association boss David Israelite. MBW reported that at the NMPA’s. Continue reading
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Upgrade Now to the new Google Analytics 4 before everything Stops WorkingMost musicians and music marketers use Google Analytics to measure website traffic, and many platforms like Bandsintown that offer musicians free analytics encourage connecting it for a more integrated view.. Continue reading
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10 Career-changing Social Media Tips for MusiciansAs musicians and artists, we all want the maximum exposure for our work, and we know social media is the absolute number one way of getting our content in front. Continue reading
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Recent Classical Highlights for June 2023Epic listening is what you get with this month's classical reviews, in more than one sense. If only we all had the energy of Garrick Ohlsson (pictured), who, with conductor Donald Runnicles, performed the heroic feat of playing all of Beethoven's piano concertos over the course of one week.

Product Profile: Mixing for Podcasting on the Mackie HR 824 MK 2 Nearfield MonitorsMixing and podcasting mixing have similarities, but require attention on different areas of your mix. Such variables include which frequencies you will need to pay attention to when mixing your vocal tracks. This means you likely will also need to pay more attention to correctly applying equalization and compression on your vocal tracks than if you are mixing a typical pop song.

When recording or streaming live, you should have a target level in mind for how hot your tracks will be. Each person or instrument should have their own track, and it is important to name your tracks in a way that makes sense to you. The goal is to have your gain levels correctly set up when you start recording, and to avoid as much as possible making minimal changes from the content after you captured it.

Once you have captured your session content, the next step is to organize your audio clips and then decide how much additional sweetening, i.e., additional equalization, compression or reverb your tracks will require. If you are streaming live onto OBS or a similar platform, you will have to take these factors into account before you start your livestream or broadcast.

For example, boosting the low frequencies in your vocal mix can help you to get your radio announcer voice on. Moving up the frequency spectrum, enhancing the upper mid-range can help dial in warmth and help you to tame harsh vocals. Keep in mind that nasal-sounding vocals can be fixed by adjusting high frequencies, which is where your ears are most sensitive to hear what your talent is saying. In general, carefully adjusting the equalization on your recorded or streaming content can help eliminate “tinny” or thin sounding vocal tracks and, in general, add warmth. Just remember when applying equalization to your tracks “a little goes a long way” and overdoing it can result in harsh sounding vocal tracks. When you are working with phone-in callers, use of a high or low pass filter can be an effective tool to help dial out unwanted background noise. 

The same principle applies to compression and reverb. While it may be tempting to boost compression on your tracks to make them “louder in the mix,” too much compression can result in tracks that sound artificial or “squashed.” Applying too much reverb can make the difference between tracks that are “sweetened” versus completely washed out. 

When mixing your content for podcasting there are many situations where it will be to your advantage to monitor your content through nearfield monitors, as opposed to headphones. 

Mackie’s HR 824 MK2 are high resolution, two-way bi-amplified studio monitors. They are designed to deliver broad stereo imaging and flat, ultra-linear frequency response, which makes them a great choice for mixing vocal intensive content as would be found in a typical podcast. The Mackie HR 824 MK 2’s translates audio well to a variety of acoustic spaces, which is one of the reasons why even though they have been on the market for several years now, they remain a popular choice with musicians, content creators and producers.

The Mackie HR 824 MK 2’s utilizes a two-way crossover and has a total of 250 watts, 150 watts for the bass frequencies, 100 watts for high frequencies. Mackie’s HR 824 MK 2 makes use of a passive radiator for enhancing low frequencies and an integrated wave guide, which provides for good off-axis response. The Mackie HR 824 MK 2 has XLR, RCA and quarter inch inputs. On the back of the HR 824 MK 2 are controls to adjust input sensitivity, acoustic space, low and high frequency boost and cut as well as selectable on-off and standby modes. The front power button of the HR 824 MK II also functions as an overload indicator. The HR 824MK II Mackie has a passive radiator on the rear of each speaker for enhancing bass frequencies. The Mackie HR 824 MK II is designed to be placed horizontally. 

As with all studio monitors, the correct placement of your monitors is an important factor to consider when setting up your studio. Plan to have your monitors placed away from walls and placed symmetrically in a triangle at your mixing position. Your monitors should be placed high enough on speaker stands so that the tweeters are firing at ear level. It’s recommended to put your monitors on top of isolation pads to help improve efficiency and to decouple them from whatever surface they are sitting on.

When mixing for podcasting you will likely be utilizing a combination of live and studio tracking and mixing techniques. There is much more to covering the basics of tracking and mixing audio for podcasting or general music production than can be discussed here. Just keep in mind to trust your ears and to mix preferably at a moderate or even low volume.

Mackie’s HR 824 MK 2 are available now for MAP $799.99 (for each speaker).

For more information and useful instructional videos check out mackie.com