Toni Roger Fishman 1969 – 2024 Toni Roger Fishman, the founder of renowned microphone manufacturer Telefunken Elektroakustik, sadly passed away on 12 July 2024.

UAD Vintage Studio Bundle now available at 94% discount, for just $59Universal Audio is now running a massive promo on its Vintage Studio Bundle, saving you a whopping $1,037 off its original price of $1,096.
The deal, available exclusively via Plugin Boutique, is available until 11 August. But before you flash your credit cards, let’s take a look at what $59 can get you.

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As its name suggests, the UAD Vintage Studio Bundle is a collection of classic audio plugins designed to “infuse your recordings with iconic sounds from music history”. You get the Hitsville Reverb Chambers, Helios Type 69 Preamp and EQ Collection, Oxide Tape Recorder, and Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection.
Hitsville Reverb Chambers
Hitsville Reverb Chambers offers the distinct ambience of the legendary Motown attic reverb chambers. The two reverb chambers built into Hitsville’s attics were essential to Motown’s iconic sound. The plugin, developed “with help from the original Motown engineers who built them”, allows users to place themselves in these legendary spaces.
With easy-to-use controls and dynamic room modelling, you can easily achieve the soaring reverb effects reminiscent of classic tracks by Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and The Supremes.
Helios Type 69 Preamp and EQ Collection
Whether it was housed at Olympic in London, Musicland in Munich, or in the famed Rolling Stones’ mobile studio, Helios Type 69 consoles recorded everyone from Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, and more with unmistakable attitude and punch.
Featuring four uniquely voiced low-frequency boost filters, this plugin delivers the punchy, fat analogue tones that shaped the music of rock’s ‘golden age’. It adds classic channel warmth and attitude to your recordings, helping you achieve that coveted vintage sound found on countless classic records. You can also clean up sources like overheads and room mics by switching the Bass band into a fixed 50 Hz low cut mode.
Oxide Tape Recorder
The Oxide Tape Recorder brings the musical, mixable sound of tape to your digital workspace. Developed by the same team behind UA’s industry-leading tape machine plugins, it enhances vocals, guitars, drums, and other tracks with clarity, punch, and warmth characteristic of analogue recordings. Users can choose between two tape speeds (7.5 and 15 IPS) and experience in-the-box recording “through” tape in real-time using Apollo interfaces.
Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection
No discussion of vintage compression is complete without talking about the Fairchild 670 Tube Limiter. Known for their “glow,” Fairchild compressors helped shape the legendary sound of artists like The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Pink Floyd. With this plugin, your vocal tracks, drum bus, and entire mix can benefit from the world’s most accurate recreations of these one-of-a-kind tube compressors.
Check out the deal at Plugin Boutique.
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Relab announce VSR REV6000 plug-in The latest addition to Relab's plug-in line-up sets its sights on one of the most sought-after reverb processors around.

Favorite Albums of 2024...so farAs we pass the halfway mark, several of our writers wanted to share the records they've gravitated to the most over the past six months. Here are the editors' favorite albums of 2024... so far.

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The Robb Nash Project Rocks to Inspire with Mojave AudioRobb Nash is a survivor who turned to rock music to give himself another reason to live, and with The Robb Nash Project, he’s dedicated himself to doing the same for others. The immersive stage show has touched the lives of more than 800,000 people with its unique mix of live music, storytelling, and humor, and Nash has used the platform to connect with youth across North America and explore pressing issues of mental health awareness, addiction recovery, and suicidal ideation. As the size and spectacle of the show has grown, Nash and his team have invested heavily in sound reinforcement to deliver an enveloping live concert experience that has studio quality sonics. Mojave Audio microphones have played a major role in achieving this. 

Channeling pain into positivity​Although the success of the Robb Nash Project has been palpable in terms of bookings and audience sizes, Nash says that he feels like he’s achieving the aforementioned significance on a more personal level. This includes making time for cathartic one-on-one conversations with attendees after the show, including youth inspired by his music to perform their own on the stage, and sharing his time and knowledge with students in the classroom. “It really is about re-modeling behavior for them and teaching them that they can channel these feelings that feel insurmountable into something positive — art, music, performance, creativity, all of it,” says Nash. “When you show them that possibility and see it spark something, it’s the most incredible thing.”

“That’s the real fulfillment of all of this, and being able to see that transformation happen either at the show itself or in these smaller interactions is what this work is all about. You can really make a difference with your art, and show others that they can do the same”

“The Robb Nash Project is doing incredible, lifesaving work in a very moving and effective way,” added Wakeman. “We at Mojave Audio are thrilled to be involved in a small way of pushing that mission forward.”

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How the Bell System Was BuiltWe’ve often thought that while going to the moon in the 1960s was audacious, it was just the flashiest of many audacious feats attempted and accomplished in the 20th century. Imagine, for a minute, that the phone system didn’t exist today, and you stood up in front of a corporate board and said, “Let’s run copper wire to every home and business in the world.” They’d probably send you for a psychiatric evaluation. Yet we did just that, and, in the United States, that copper wire was because of the Bell system, which [Brian Potter] describes in a recent post.
The Bell company, regardless of many name changes and divisions, was clearly a very important company. [Brian] points out that in 1917, it was the second-largest company in the United States and continued to grow, eventually employing a whopping 1% of the entire U.S. workforce. That’s what happens when you have a monopoly on a product that is subject to wild demand. In 1900, Bell handled 5 million calls a day. By 1925, that number was over 50 million. In 1975, it was just shy of 500 million. If Wester Electric — just one part of Bell — was its own company, it would have been the 12th largest company in the U.S. during the 1970s.

From a technology point of view, the system was impressive in scale and rate of growth. In 1877, AT&T — the name after a restructuring — had 600 customers. A year later, it had 10,000. By 1881, that number was 100,000, and only 9 U.S. cities with more than 10,000 people lacked a phone exchange. By 1900, the 800,000 telephones in use required 2 million miles of wire!
That 2 million miles of wire had to go somewhere. New York City had hundreds of 90-foot poles, each carrying 300 wires, and people were complaining about the wires being in view. That caused AT&T to go underground. In 1888, a phone cable had 50 pairs of #18 wire. By 1939, #26 wire allowed 2,121 pairs of wires in a single cable.
Remember that the early phone system had no amplifiers. When tubes arrived, this allowed longer distances on smaller wires and radio links to reach the world. Bell’s monopoly allowed them to innovate but also hurt others who wanted to innovate.

Waves Giving Away FREE Electric 200 Piano Plugin in Limited Time Offer
Waves partnered with YouTuber and producer Sanjay C to give away the Electric 200 Piano virtual instrument for free. The plugin is a macOS and Windows release that is available for a limited time only. Sanjay C provided the link to the freebie on his Instagram bio and on YouTube, and you can access the link [...]
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Congratulations to the 2024 Business Card Challenge Winners!When you ask a Hackaday crowd to design a business card, you should expect to be surprised by what you get. But still, we were surprised by the breadth of entries! Our judges wracked their brains to pick their top ten, and then we compared notes, and three projects rose to the top, but honestly the top ten could have all won. It was a tight field. But only three of the entries get to take home the $150 DigiKey gift certificates, so without further ado…

 
Blinkencard – Pocket Altair 8800
[ajlitt] built a full retrocomputer, and a slick looking one to boot, in the size of a business card. Of course, you could run an Altair 8800 emulator on your cell phone, but without the entry buttons and real-live blinkenlights, it just wouldn’t be the same. What our judges loved most about this build was the use of an FPGA and and ESP32, for IO and storage, the reverse-mounted front PCB that doubles as a faceplate, and of course the nice 3DP bezel that hides the bodge wires from view.
BetaBoard – Tiny Particle Physics Lab
So you might have thought someone would put a retrocomputer on a business card, but a working radiation detector was not on our radar. [Tim – DJ8TK]’s entry makes use of not one, but six BPW34 PIN photodiodes, which have the benefit of being well studied in the hacker radiation detection scene. This project took a ton of design work, and our judges thought that the documentation along the way were as good as any physics lecture.
Brushless Motor and Driver Business Card Kit
And speaking of educational business card demos, [Andy Geppert]’s motor driver card not only teaches you how to wind your own coils and make a simple stepper motor, but also how to drive it. While [Andy] admits that the stepper motor design could use a few more poles for smooth operation, he also broke out the coil driver so that you can experiment by driving more professional brushless DC motors if you have them on hand. It’s a great demo, and being in a business card form factor, you can always have one on hand.
Honorable Mentions
As always, we have more awesome projects than we have prizes, so we thought we’d call out some standouts.

Wafer Thin: [Chinchilla Optional] wowed us with this amazing dead-bug style QR code made out of LEDs. You know the card is thin when the LEDs are the thickest part. [erich.styger] contributed these RFID tag cards, beautifully laser-etched and made of 1 mm thick veneer. And bridging the Utility and Wafer Thin categories, [Maave]’s credit-card sized door entry tool needs to be thin if it’s going to work. Get this cut out of thin steel, and you’ll never get locked out again.
Aesthetics: [BLANCHARD Jordan]’s Weather Card is cool on many fronts, but the resulting circuit sculpture combining the solar panel and the e-paper really won over our judges eyes with its understated form-follows-function beauty. On the opposite end of the spectrum, [Will Fox]’s Foxie CardClock 2.0 goes overboard with the color LEDs, and it looks awesome.

Madman Muntz: Earl “Madman” Muntz was famous for cutting corners by removing parts until the thing broke, and we had a couple standout ultra-minimalist entries. [Adam Billingsley]’s CH32V003 Business Card targeted a $1 price tag, and this USB-capable, capacitive-touch card pulls out all the stops to get at least in the ballpark. Amazing. [Lincoln Uehara] cut corners by getting rid of the PCB entirely, and this makes his Back-to-basics paper business card friendly for younger builders too.
Fun and Games: A business card with a working 4×4 tic-tac-toe game? [Esc]’s entry does double duty as a game and PCB design tutorial. Whether or not you should base your choice of a partner on skin resistance alone, [Un Kyu Lee]’s Doctor Love is a hilarious device, and background story. And finally, [Eontronics]’s RetroMedleyCard is an ambitious project to bring game emulation to your wallet. This project is insane, and it’s one to watch!
Utilitarian: Our last category showcases useful cards of all sorts. From [Peter]’s Pi Pico MSP430 Debug Probe and programmable 4th Calculator to [Gangwa Labs]’s reflow hotplate (!), there’s no shortage of function that you can pack into your pockets.

Thanks to Everyone!
As always, we had more awesome entries than we have space to feature. You should go check out all the entries over on Hackaday.io. And thanks again to DigiKey for sponsoring these with prizes.

Disney Music Group strikes deal with AI music startup AudioShake to ‘unlock new listening and fan engagement experiences’ for its catalogDMG to use AudioShake’s stem separation and lyric transcription tech
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Bandsintown’s Fabrice Sergent on The Live Music Industry PodcastFabrice Sergent, co-founder and managing partner of Bandsintown, joins Prism CEO Matt Ford on The Live Music Industry Podcast to explore how the world's largest and most comprehensive concert discovery platform helps artists, venues, and promoters build an audience while retaining control of their data and direct communications with fans.
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Key Songs In The Life Of… Ole ObermannOle Obermann, Global Head of Music Development and IP at TikTok, talks us through the tracks that have shaped his life and career so far
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Spotify passes UMG as the world’s most valuable music companySpotify overtook Universal Music Group (UMG) to become the biggest company in the music industry based on its market capitalization in Q2 2024.
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Link Rot: Why your Digital Links won’t last foreverUnfortunately, link deterioration, often called link rot, is inevitable. Here are some effective strategies for managing its impact on online content. by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Just about everyone. Continue reading
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