Just so you know: The RIAA does not distribute any music. It is not a music company. It is an organization funded by a number of major and INDEPENDENT labels to defend the rights of their constituents. Madonna is not signed to the RIAA. She is signed to one of the majors.
Actually, the FBI was very nice about it. I talked with an agent who had been on the child porn beat for several years. She hintd that she had some horror stories to tell, and that for every success in her fight there were a thousand tragedies. My point: Free speech is a wonderful thing, but Kazaa, other P2P devices, ISPs and users cannot trade morality for technology.
For all you crying censorship, why dont you look up "lolita sex" or "child f***." I called the FBI when scour was big. There is a lot of child porn available. Maybe the RIAA is not the one to point it out. We should be because all of you should be ashamed that a program you love so much is use this way. Those pix show child abuse, and the trading encourages the abuse. Someone out there download a preteen girl giving head may one day rape your little daughter. One of the problems with Sharman networks is that they make money with an engine that can be used for so much, but DO NOT CARE how it is used. Worse than anything Microsoft has done, they have traded morals for money. Whether or not you think its sharing music or stealing it, anything that allows such a sick activity to go one should be taken care of by law.
I don't think governments should make choices for people, one of the reasons we have freedoms like freedom of religion. These days choosing an OS is like a technolgic religious choice. All the Linux and Mac zealits I know spout benchmarks like gospel quotes.
In all things it is up to the people, not a government, to drive our choices. Look at how the FCC has screwed up running broadcasting for a prime example.
I've been in the movie/TV biz for a while now. Most people I meet in the biz I have little respect for because they believe that what makes up a bad movie is what people want. Seems to me they shouldn't be scared of word of mouth if the movie was good. Didn't My Big Fat Greek Wedding start small and build on good word of mouth?
You said: "Now what if the person already owned the CD's and could prove it with saved receipts? I'm pretty sure that will slow down the RIAA a bit hehe."
I say: So what??? You still can't "share" it with everyone in the whole world.
After all my arguments about whether copying music on Kazaa is theft (which, until the light of the millions of mighty/.'ers reigned down upon me), I realized no one should impede free speech. How dare these bastards try and stop spam. They have a right, like everyone, to step on somebody's else's right to freedom and property just like the MP3 traders.
First I was blown away by BallBlaster from Lucas Arts. My first true 3D game. Then my jaw dropped for Castle Wolfenstein 3d. Then the world shook with the release of Doom. Since then no other 3d game has rocled my world because they tend to be incremental instead of revolutionary advances.
Story lines I loved: Half Life 2. Baldurs Gate 2. That Half Life level about the Zombies from PC Magazine. Oh, and don't forget Max Payne. Great story with really cool dream sequences.
You started the trollboy thing. If you can't handle it and when you realize another person has made a mistake explain yourself enough to correct it then you derserve the name calling.
You are a big pile of TROLLBAIT. And you just love it.
I have- you havent accepted it. You keep saying "download...upload...usenet" like a chant. You post in apulic place where bunches can download... tats copyright violation.
ProTools is pretty much a standard in the pro world. It would be good to be compatible. I'm sure Mark of the Unicorn would make something that would be perfect for you, but I would also suggest purchasing a virtual fader board, like the MotorMix, for mixing. Also, I would avoid any USB device. USB is not isosynchronus and can vary unpredictably in performance with high quality digital audio streams. FireWire is much more reliable.
With the EQ you need to carve out a niche where that instrument sits almost by iteself. I know it sounds weird, but this is the way great music sounds like it should (especially whn confied to only two speakers, 5.1 give you way more harmonic latitude- two channel is so confining). Alan Parsons really led the way on this. Listen to Dark Side of the Moon. Every instrument has its own space. You have to choose to keep the "essential" harmonics of the instrument to make way. This is not really taught on an informal level, though Full Sail does teach the technique, though it is through experience that i becomes part of you.
Compression is up to you. I really feel that todays music is way to compressed- losing subtle dynamics, but this again is up to you. I hear a lot of mixes straight from ProTools at 24 bit and love the dynamics. Then it goes to a mastering house and is squashed then put on CD (only 16 bit sound). There is a lot of feel lost. I would apply limiting to the voice whe laying the track down to avoid clipping, then compress to taste on the mix. Riding levels via the controller is more important. Guitar has compression as an integral part of its sound (the sustain). Get the sound, compress only if needed, and EQ to fit.
There are exceptions (as you have shown), but it takes an average of $10,000 per track in the indistry. You are pointing out the exceptions, not the average.
I really admire Jonatha Brooks. We need more DVD-A in the indie world.
Upload/Download/P2P-- if it is placed anywhere where anyone can retrieve it it is copyright infringement. Simpe as that. This has nothing to do with technicaly how it got there ir what is carrying it. Explain what you mean because you are making no sense. Again, this is the new thinking: If its on the web old rules no longer apply.
Forget the mixing board. Get the DigiDesign Protools LE 002. It has mic preamps (very decent and clean, you want better buy an outboard Avalon pre), and the surface works as a control panel for mixing in ProTools. Plus it is the audio interface, and a damn good one. $2500 list, USD.
I'd also purchase the Waves Gold Bundle (RTAS) for a great starter set of plugins (ProTools supplied plug ins are lame and hard to use), and get a good Mac or PC with firewire to run it. The better th processors, the more pug ins you can run (the more professional ProTools/HD has expandable DSP cards for the plug ins).
ProTools in in use in most major studios and the neat thing is you can bring your files to the big studio and continue to work with no import hassels. Sweet.
As for mics, get a good condenser. Neumann U87 is the choice for most of our work, but there are some lower priced models out there. Avoid AKG C414s, they just are not warm enough for most applications. If you want some dynamics, say for the snare, choose the Shure Beta58 over the SM58. Hands down a better mic for not a whole lot more.
Then get a room together that is sonically correct. The main rule is that is can have some live surfaces but no surface can be parallel to another. This creates standing waves. So you may need to build an angled wall in from of the real wall and angle the ceilong with a false ceiling.
In the end, to be professional you should make sure you get the highes input on any channel, don't run the signal throgh many gain stages (in this box, out that box, in this box, etc.).
As for the mix, make sure each instrument has a place in the sonic spectrum. EQ the instrument so it is confined to that space and does not overlap another instrument. For instance, EQ off the low end of the guitar so it does not interfere with the bass guitar. Also, etch a hole in the guitar arounf 1k-2k to make way for the vocals. If you don't create spaces then the mix becomes muddy.
Lets see. the record company may put out up to a Million Dollars to rpomote the artist, such as magazine ads, commercials, PR people to book appearances. I think they derserve a lot. Besides, the artist get the majority proceeds from the live show, leaving the record company out. Isn't all this going to bring more people to the show?
You making the tracks available for anyone to download is a violation of copyright, just as if you photocopy a book and leave it for anyone to take and read.
This is not about fair use. Back up your CD to CD-R, copy it to your MP3 player. Watever. That is fair use. Put it on Kazaa and that is copyright violation. Pretty simple. And the only reason why the industry is trying to put copy protection on is because so many people have proven by the amount of tracks stolen each day that they cannot be trusted to use the products fairly. I support fair use, again, file sharing with mass quantities of people is not Fair Use no matter what your argument.
Of course it is the artists right to license it to a label. The artist makes money that way. Its not only the label you hurt. No one put a gun to their head and made them oin the label. As an indie you can make 50% of the sale price easily, with a label its more like 7% BUT you sell way more copies, making way more money in the end.
As an indie label I support all the actions against the thieves. For instance, to make a great album we spend around $10,000 per track. When we make the CD we pay the writer 8-cents per track just to print it. We split with distributors. No "tip jar" will recoup the money we spend to give you good music.
Again, there is a tracking service that follows which songs are most downloaded and guess what... it is the same as what is the most sold. Even good indie artists spend money to go into studios, have professional mastering done, etc. Each track can easily cost $10,000 in production fees. With all of the tealing going on even they will not be able to afford that eventually. Then all it will be is bedroom recordings on some crappy Roland multitrack.
Is the destruction of the recording industry worth your stealing? C'mon... the most downloaded tracks are on the Billboard charts. That is the music people want to hear. Destroy the idustry and it will be only little bands out of their bedrooms, the ones who fill up MP3.com with trash no one wants to hear.
I meant costly in the amount they were paying in the settlement. A little humor which you cannot seem to perceive. Yes, hide behind that "its online... everything is permissible" attitude. Hate the world which tries to fight you for their rights. I am an artist myself, and if you steal my stuff... you will pay.
This is not about corporations vs. the little man but artists vs. the thieves
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Just so you know: The RIAA does not distribute any music. It is not a music company. It is an organization funded by a number of major and INDEPENDENT labels to defend the rights of their constituents. Madonna is not signed to the RIAA. She is signed to one of the majors.
Actually, the FBI was very nice about it. I talked with an agent who had been on the child porn beat for several years. She hintd that she had some horror stories to tell, and that for every success in her fight there were a thousand tragedies. My point: Free speech is a wonderful thing, but Kazaa, other P2P devices, ISPs and users cannot trade morality for technology.
For all you crying censorship, why dont you look up "lolita sex" or "child f***." I called the FBI when scour was big. There is a lot of child porn available. Maybe the RIAA is not the one to point it out. We should be because all of you should be ashamed that a program you love so much is use this way. Those pix show child abuse, and the trading encourages the abuse. Someone out there download a preteen girl giving head may one day rape your little daughter. One of the problems with Sharman networks is that they make money with an engine that can be used for so much, but DO NOT CARE how it is used. Worse than anything Microsoft has done, they have traded morals for money. Whether or not you think its sharing music or stealing it, anything that allows such a sick activity to go one should be taken care of by law.
I don't think governments should make choices for people, one of the reasons we have freedoms like freedom of religion. These days choosing an OS is like a technolgic religious choice. All the Linux and Mac zealits I know spout benchmarks like gospel quotes. In all things it is up to the people, not a government, to drive our choices. Look at how the FCC has screwed up running broadcasting for a prime example.
I've been in the movie/TV biz for a while now. Most people I meet in the biz I have little respect for because they believe that what makes up a bad movie is what people want. Seems to me they shouldn't be scared of word of mouth if the movie was good. Didn't My Big Fat Greek Wedding start small and build on good word of mouth?
You said: "Now what if the person already owned the CD's and could prove it with saved receipts? I'm pretty sure that will slow down the RIAA a bit hehe." I say: So what??? You still can't "share" it with everyone in the whole world.
After all my arguments about whether copying music on Kazaa is theft (which, until the light of the millions of mighty /.'ers reigned down upon me), I realized no one should impede free speech. How dare these bastards try and stop spam. They have a right, like everyone, to step on somebody's else's right to freedom and property just like the MP3 traders.
We need to contact the EFF for support on this.
First I was blown away by BallBlaster from Lucas Arts. My first true 3D game. Then my jaw dropped for Castle Wolfenstein 3d. Then the world shook with the release of Doom. Since then no other 3d game has rocled my world because they tend to be incremental instead of revolutionary advances.
Story lines I loved: Half Life 2. Baldurs Gate 2. That Half Life level about the Zombies from PC Magazine. Oh, and don't forget Max Payne. Great story with really cool dream sequences.
You started the trollboy thing. If you can't handle it and when you realize another person has made a mistake explain yourself enough to correct it then you derserve the name calling.
You are a big pile of TROLLBAIT. And you just love it.
So yo don't upload? Well, I missed that, and, like a dick, you never said that until now. Who's the troll. You are. Asshole.
I have- you havent accepted it. You keep saying "download...upload...usenet" like a chant. You post in apulic place where bunches can download... tats copyright violation.
You still dont see it doesnt make a difference. You are violating copyright.
ProTools is pretty much a standard in the pro world. It would be good to be compatible. I'm sure Mark of the Unicorn would make something that would be perfect for you, but I would also suggest purchasing a virtual fader board, like the MotorMix, for mixing. Also, I would avoid any USB device. USB is not isosynchronus and can vary unpredictably in performance with high quality digital audio streams. FireWire is much more reliable.
With the EQ you need to carve out a niche where that instrument sits almost by iteself. I know it sounds weird, but this is the way great music sounds like it should (especially whn confied to only two speakers, 5.1 give you way more harmonic latitude- two channel is so confining). Alan Parsons really led the way on this. Listen to Dark Side of the Moon. Every instrument has its own space. You have to choose to keep the "essential" harmonics of the instrument to make way. This is not really taught on an informal level, though Full Sail does teach the technique, though it is through experience that i becomes part of you.
Compression is up to you. I really feel that todays music is way to compressed- losing subtle dynamics, but this again is up to you. I hear a lot of mixes straight from ProTools at 24 bit and love the dynamics. Then it goes to a mastering house and is squashed then put on CD (only 16 bit sound). There is a lot of feel lost. I would apply limiting to the voice whe laying the track down to avoid clipping, then compress to taste on the mix. Riding levels via the controller is more important. Guitar has compression as an integral part of its sound (the sustain). Get the sound, compress only if needed, and EQ to fit.
There are exceptions (as you have shown), but it takes an average of $10,000 per track in the indistry. You are pointing out the exceptions, not the average.
I really admire Jonatha Brooks. We need more DVD-A in the indie world.
USENET is public, isn't it?
Upload/Download/P2P-- if it is placed anywhere where anyone can retrieve it it is copyright infringement. Simpe as that. This has nothing to do with technicaly how it got there ir what is carrying it. Explain what you mean because you are making no sense. Again, this is the new thinking: If its on the web old rules no longer apply.
I didn't see any artist suing anyone
Steal my stuff and you will.
Forget the mixing board. Get the DigiDesign Protools LE 002. It has mic preamps (very decent and clean, you want better buy an outboard Avalon pre), and the surface works as a control panel for mixing in ProTools. Plus it is the audio interface, and a damn good one. $2500 list, USD.
I'd also purchase the Waves Gold Bundle (RTAS) for a great starter set of plugins (ProTools supplied plug ins are lame and hard to use), and get a good Mac or PC with firewire to run it. The better th processors, the more pug ins you can run (the more professional ProTools/HD has expandable DSP cards for the plug ins).
ProTools in in use in most major studios and the neat thing is you can bring your files to the big studio and continue to work with no import hassels. Sweet.
As for mics, get a good condenser. Neumann U87 is the choice for most of our work, but there are some lower priced models out there. Avoid AKG C414s, they just are not warm enough for most applications. If you want some dynamics, say for the snare, choose the Shure Beta58 over the SM58. Hands down a better mic for not a whole lot more.
Then get a room together that is sonically correct. The main rule is that is can have some live surfaces but no surface can be parallel to another. This creates standing waves. So you may need to build an angled wall in from of the real wall and angle the ceilong with a false ceiling.
In the end, to be professional you should make sure you get the highes input on any channel, don't run the signal throgh many gain stages (in this box, out that box, in this box, etc.).
As for the mix, make sure each instrument has a place in the sonic spectrum. EQ the instrument so it is confined to that space and does not overlap another instrument. For instance, EQ off the low end of the guitar so it does not interfere with the bass guitar. Also, etch a hole in the guitar arounf 1k-2k to make way for the vocals. If you don't create spaces then the mix becomes muddy.
Lets see. the record company may put out up to a Million Dollars to rpomote the artist, such as magazine ads, commercials, PR people to book appearances. I think they derserve a lot. Besides, the artist get the majority proceeds from the live show, leaving the record company out. Isn't all this going to bring more people to the show?
You making the tracks available for anyone to download is a violation of copyright, just as if you photocopy a book and leave it for anyone to take and read.
This is not about fair use. Back up your CD to CD-R, copy it to your MP3 player. Watever. That is fair use. Put it on Kazaa and that is copyright violation. Pretty simple. And the only reason why the industry is trying to put copy protection on is because so many people have proven by the amount of tracks stolen each day that they cannot be trusted to use the products fairly. I support fair use, again, file sharing with mass quantities of people is not Fair Use no matter what your argument.
Of course it is the artists right to license it to a label. The artist makes money that way. Its not only the label you hurt. No one put a gun to their head and made them oin the label. As an indie you can make 50% of the sale price easily, with a label its more like 7% BUT you sell way more copies, making way more money in the end.
As an indie label I support all the actions against the thieves. For instance, to make a great album we spend around $10,000 per track. When we make the CD we pay the writer 8-cents per track just to print it. We split with distributors. No "tip jar" will recoup the money we spend to give you good music.
Again, there is a tracking service that follows which songs are most downloaded and guess what... it is the same as what is the most sold. Even good indie artists spend money to go into studios, have professional mastering done, etc. Each track can easily cost $10,000 in production fees. With all of the tealing going on even they will not be able to afford that eventually. Then all it will be is bedroom recordings on some crappy Roland multitrack.
Is the destruction of the recording industry worth your stealing? C'mon... the most downloaded tracks are on the Billboard charts. That is the music people want to hear. Destroy the idustry and it will be only little bands out of their bedrooms, the ones who fill up MP3.com with trash no one wants to hear.
I meant costly in the amount they were paying in the settlement. A little humor which you cannot seem to perceive. Yes, hide behind that "its online... everything is permissible" attitude. Hate the world which tries to fight you for their rights. I am an artist myself, and if you steal my stuff... you will pay.
This is not about corporations vs. the little man but artists vs. the thieves
No... grokster some other were not held liable in court. But, they will be held liable to help identify users who violate copyright, e.g. Verizon
If you are putting it up for millions to download free of charge you are guilty of Copyright violation. Its the artist right to copy, ot yours.