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Instant Concert CDs?

Posted by michael on from the taking-all-the-fun-out-of-it dept.

NickRipley writes "Clear Channel (owner of every radio station in America) is purporting to offer a new service, whereby concertgoers can receive an official recording of the concert they just attended, within moments after the final note. How will the RIAA react to this, seeing as this is legitimizing one of the oldest forms of music pirating? Also, what kind of equipment will have to be used to produce these so fast? Will the recording process suffer due to the hurry?"

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  1. Duplication... by mackd · · Score: 5, Informative

    I worked on a production requiring this kind of speed. However, we were using audio cassettes, and the material involved was a spoken presentation that we had permission to duplicate and sell.

    This is how it worked: we created a master tape on the fly during the program. At the conclusion of the program, the master was carried down to a workroom with tape duplication machines. We could have 16 tapes created within 4 minutes of the end of the presentation--with more coming. If it was this simple with analog equipment, I'd imagine a digital method for distributing these recordings would be a piece of cake.

  2. sounds like livephish by somebaudy · · Score: 5, Informative

    as described in this article this is not unlike livephish nearly-instant Concert selling website.

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  3. Re:Given that live music is the best music... by thesupermikey · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Fast burners and digital recording equipment tied into the sound system would make it easy to get these discs out minutes after a concert ends. What would be sad is that most likely, encores and bonus sets would be lost if they cut the recording early"

    www.livephish.com

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