Avantone's CLA-10A Limited Edition monitors Avantone have made their CLA-10A monitor available with a limited edition North American black walnut cabinet design. 

Lingrove’s carbon-negative wood alternative branches out with $10M roundThese days even niche industries have concerned souls looking for more eco-friendly options for materials and processes, from washing machine waste to artificial wool. Lingrove is taking on laminates — thin layers of wood and other materials — with a carbon-negative option that they claim performs better while looking as good. Laminates or veneers are […]
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Ian Charbonneau & Niko Bolas Record Neil Young's "Stand For Peace"Neil Young films "Stand For Peace" at StageThis in Los Angeles. (Photo by Ian Charbonneau.)

Los Angeles, CA, December 2023 - The Recording Project by Ian Charbonneau and recording engineer Niko Bolas captured audio for a quick Neil Young music video directed by Daryl Hannah for holiday release. Recorded and filmed at StageThis soundstage in downtown LA, Charbonneau provided his engineering services along with his state-of-the-art mobile flypack system and microphones to capture the intimate performance.  To meet Young's specifications, audio was captured at high-resolution 192K format, as well as for Dolby Atmos.

"This was a nice challenge," said Charbonneau, "and a great success for my new portable flypack system. It was great to have METalliance member Niko Bolas producing our first 192K project. The video performance had a very quick one-day turnaround for release a day later on Thanksgiving morning." Bolas added, "The famous Charbonneau recording ethic and Ian's talent - a remote dream team."

Having worked for 30+ years with his father Guy Charbonneau and Le Mobile remote recording truck, Ian recently founded The Recording Project and created his unique flypack portable recording system, which can be loaded into a few cases and checked as baggage on an airline. With his new mobile system, Ian has already recorded live projects for Imagine Dragons, Melissa Etheridge, Mana, Macklemore, Dolby Laboratories, and parts the Eric Clapton's Crossroads Festival, to name a few.

Ian explains, "My new system consists of a DirectOut Technologies, MC Prodigy modular audio converter loaded with 64-channels of high quality MicHD preamps packaged in a custom rack. It allows to capture great multitrack recording in standard and high resolution formats. The converter / preamp connects via Fiber cable to two Avid Madi Pro Tools systems for redundancy."

For more info about The Recording Project visit: https://www.therecordingproject.com

Russ on independence, entrepreneurialism, and what he’d change about the music businessTrailblazers is an MBW interview series that turns the spotlight on music entrepreneurs with the potential to become the global business power players of tomorrow. This time, we speak to artist and producer, Russ. Trailblazers is supported by TuneCore. As the name of this series suggests, and explains in the opener above, MBW’s Trailblazers turns the … Continued
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The Orchard signs global distribution deal with Peso Pluma’s Double P RecordsThe deal expands The Orchard's involvement with Latin music, following its partnership with Rimas Entertainment in 2021
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“It’s the basic stuff but it’s going to make you unstoppable”: Kaytranada offers advice for budding producersKaytranada has shared some tips for producers hoping to land a break.
The producer offered some words of wisdom in an extensive interview with Montreality, where he was asked what he’d recommend new producers doing to help get their career off the ground.

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“I feel like producers can just be unique, you know. You don’t need whatever I’m using,” he says. “A lot of people just need a laptop or computer, you can just start from there. You’re always going to go through the rough patches before you become who you become as a producer. But you definitely gotta go through things, you can’t become the best just like that.
“You just definitely [have to] learn things. Learn how to play the keys, learn some instruments, just practice and practice. Remake your favourite producers’ beats. That definitely unlocks a lot of things. Watch a lot of tutorials… it’s kind of like the basic stuff but it’s going to make you unstoppable, honestly.”

Kaytranada wasn’t just offering advice for budding producers, however – he is asked later in the interview for advice for people who want to come out. The producer came out publicly as gay in 2016.
“I came out, but still, not everybody knows,” he says. “Don’t just confirm it to yourself. I came out in an article, that was an affirmation to just to make me believe that I’m actually coming out… just find a way to make it secure. Don’t even come out to everybody, just come out to yourself. Trying to take it to the next level’s not going to be easy, you know. Meditate, do things that are self-care as well, because it’s kind of like a rebirth.
“You’ve definitely got to learn things again and be ready for the world. You know, not everyone’s going to love it. You’re going to lose some people around you but you’re going to gain a lot of respect and a lot of love. It’s like the truest love you gon’ get because you’re full yourself now.”
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New on Splice: Create mode updates, better search, and more
We’ve recently made a few improvements that we hope will make Splice an even more inspiring place to start your musical creations.

Mark Mulligan of MIDiA’s 2024 Music Industry Predictions: The algorithm is not listeningWe’re sharing 2024 Music Industry Predictions from our favorite thinkers and doers, and today, Mark Mulligan and the team at top consultancy MIDiA take the mic. Mark and his peers. Continue reading
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Vinyl trades call Billboard chart change ‘abdication of responsibility’Two top vinyl manufacturing trade groups have joined a coalition of independent music stores in opposing the December 29th launch of changes in how sales of physical goods (vinyl, CDs,. Continue reading
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Trailbender Is A FREE Delay Multi Effect Plugin By Signal Perspective
Signal Perspective released the free Trailbender delay-based multi-effects plugin for Windows and Mac. Trailbender is a versatile plugin that can be set to act as a mod FX, pitch shifter, synthesizer, and more. The developer Giorgio Presti explained that the origin of the Trailbender came when he developed a tool to show his students “how [...]
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ChatGPT is the most-used AI tool among musicians, study findsA new study has revealed which musicians are using available AI tools and how, revealing that ChatGPT is currently the most-used tool among musicians.

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The study, which was carried out by Pirate and involved 1,000 musicians, unveiled the top 10 AI tools utilised for music production. Topping this list is ChatGPT, which can help in songwriting and composition by generating ideas and providing valuable feedback on lyrics.
The OpenAI tool is closely followed by iZotope’s Ozone 11 plugin, which simplifies the mastering process with its one-click solution, enhancing workflow for artists.
Stem separation tool LALAL.AI secured the third spot while BandLab SongStarter, which aids in combating writer’s block and generates tracks based on user input, was fourth. GOYO, which specialises in audio segmentation, de-noising, and de-voicing for improved audio quality, was fifth.
AIVA, AWS DeepComposer, Moises.ai, Google’s Magenta Studio and StemRoller also made the cut.
In terms of how musicians are using these AI tools to create music, the study reveals that 30 percent of musicians use AI use it to help with songwriting and composition, while 21 percent use it for research and inspiration.
Credit: Pirate
Breaking it down even further, the study shows that twelve percent use it for beat and rhythm creation, according to Pirate, 10 percent for mastering, eight for arrangement, eight for mixing, and five percent for vocal processing, with the remaining six percent using AI for reasons categorised as ‘Other’.
This study also found that over 50 percent of musicians would conceal their use of AI to others.
The inclusion of AI technology in music creation has been a hot topic in 2023. Just recently, Disclosure launched a project in partnership with beatport.io and Bronze AI that lets fans remix their track Simply Won’t Do using AI.
Gorillaz and Blur frontman Damon Albarn recently praised the use of AI to help make the ‘new’ Beatles track, //Now And Then//, happen. He said he sees it as a “good opportunity for everyone”, saying “there could be hundreds of my songs released after my death”.
LimeWire also got in on the AI action recently, as it launched its new LimeWire AI Music Studio that lets you create a whole track using AI. Co-CEO Julian Zehetmayr said in a press release: “Our platform is designed to break down barriers, allowing aspiring musicians and creators to unleash their potential with the power of AI.”
Read more at Pirate.
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Top Social App for Teens is not what we expectedAs a tuned-in music industry pro, you may think you know the top social media platforms, but think again. This report is bound to surprise… by Bobby Owsinski of Music. Continue reading
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Watch Vulfpeck’s Jack Stratton recreate Stevie Wonder’s I WishVulfpeck‘s Jack Stratton is a Stevie Wonder fan – particularly when it comes to his 1970s work on the Rhodes piano. And more specifically the one he played on his 1976 track I Wish, from his album Songs in the Key of Life.
He’s created an instrument patch to allow him to recreate it, and he’s shared his experience in a YouTube video.

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He begins with some famous footage of Wonder in the studio trying to recreate I Wish, as seen in the Classic Albums TV show that looks at the making of Songs in the Key of Life, and he says, “This is the straight-up funkiest footage on Earth.”
Stratton brings up the original I Wish electric piano stem in Logic Pro as a reference, and then gets up his personal favourite Rhodes plugin, the Scarbee Classic EP-88s. He records the part himself, and describes the resulting sound as “super-close” to Wonder’s.
However, it’s not quite there yet, with Stratton explaining that he hears “Huge EQ difference, and I hear way more attack in Stevie’s”. So, he uses FabFilter Pro-Q.3’s Match EQ feature to analyse and emulate the original sound, adding “a ton of high-end and a low-end boost,” coming from the Lots Of Attack preset in the Vulf Compressor.
But as Stratton thinks there’s still too much l0w-end, he uses GoodHertz Tiltshift EQ, and then adds some crunch from GoodHertz’s Tupe tape/tube simulator plugin, some Softube EQ for more brightness, and then a final Logic Pro Match EQ.
Stratton then has a patch he can use, something he describes as “so exciting for all involved,” before he shouts out Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff for the part they played in developing Wonder’s famous 1970s-era sound.
His video is an excerpt from the Jack Stratton Mixing Masterclass course. And you can watch it below:

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Andrew Huang names his top 10 plugins of 2023Andrew Huang has rounded out 2023 by ranking his favourite 10 plugins of the year.
Topping the list is the “mind-blowing” Sonic Charge’s Synplant 2, which is the recently released upgrade to the 15-year-old two-oscillator and FM synth.

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“Synplant 2 just levels things up in a totally ridiculous way because you’ve got a lot more control over the original synth perimeters than you did in the previous version,” Huang says in the video. “But [the Genopatch] screen is absolutely mind-blowing. You can load a sound into it and then using machine learning, it tries to recreate it with its synth perimeters.”
Huang then goes on to demonstrate how the Genopatch feature works.”Now I have a synth that’s closer to a sample that I dropped in and I can use it as a synth. I can play it on different keys without the thing that happens when you’re playing samples on different keys, changing the tone of it, changing the length of it. I can manipulate it in so many more ways.”

He does joke, however, before revealing his top plugin of the year that the real winner is Transit, the multi-effects plugin he worked on himself with Baby Audio.
Also appearing in Huang’s top 10 countdown are Minimal Audio‘s Current synth, which claims the joint 2nd and 3rd place spot alongside RANDOM by Beatsurfing. Rounding out the top 5 are Reason Rack’s Objekt, which Huang says is one of the best physical modelling synths he’s ever used, and mastering plugin Master Plan, created by MusikHack.
Elsewhere in 2023, Huang was also involved in launching the new Ableton Push 3, posting a video showcasing the power of the pad’s MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression) capabilities, live recording workflows via the built-in interface, and he also demonstrates how to integrate external synths.
He also recently took EarthQuaker Devices inside his studio in Toronto in the latest instalment of their acclaimed YouTube series Show Us Your Junk!
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Steinberg update Cubasis and Dorico apps With the arrival of their latest updates, Cubasis and Dorico for iPad now benefit from new built-in instruments powered by the company’s HALion sampling and virtual instrument engine.