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Riverdale Recording - We're listening. Posts and musings on music, recording, and audio.

08/15/2024

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08/15/2024

https://youtu.be/Sn07AMCfaAI?si=WeoBWMWbEmpaJQy8

Audio illusions show us that hearing is about more than just sensing frequency. Which ones trick you every time? Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to ...

08/15/2024

https://youtu.be/6B5U3GUNBjw?si=xxngG9sCrS-LJen0

You will see print at first from an article from 1900 on the manufacture of Edison blanks, stop the photos and read the print! You then will see photos of t...

07/17/2024

06/26/2024

https://youtu.be/1bZ0OSEViyo?si=u5CxAu6FodQF7rsu

In this episode, I discuss the crisis in music in two acts: Act I - Music is too Easy to MakeAct II - Music is too Easy to Consume...and their cumulative neg...

04/29/2024

https://youtu.be/-wWPpRpMurc?si=sWhn3u9DQXc6TMcA

Miles Showell has been cutting vinyl for 40 years. Today, he works in Abbey Road studios where he has been perfecting the art of half-speed cutting, a techni...

04/27/2024

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04/18/2024

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In this episode, I explore what it means to be in tune. Based on a series of untimely events, I begin to question what it really means to be in tune... and m...

04/12/2024

https://youtu.be/Q811R6YsM0s?si=RmhWAqpNORHSLL3x

Chechnya's Cultural Minister just banned all music outside of 80-116BPM...why? well....This is probably just a clever way to make sure that Lezginka is legal...

04/10/2024

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Researchers are developing a technique that uses the special synchrotron X-ray light from the Swiss Light Source SLS to non-destructively digitize recordings from high-value historic audio tapes—including treasures from the Montreux Jazz Festival archive, such as a rare recording of the King of th...

04/05/2024

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04/05/2024

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A look at the Polymoog and how Gary Numan adopted one of the presets from one of the versions to help define his sound.0:00 Intro0:41 What is the Polymoog?8:...

03/19/2024

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It’s nearly a decade since the LUFS standard for loudness measurement was defined, yet many still seem confused about what it means for music production.

02/08/2024

Geek out:

In this video, we get an introduction to an organ with 15-keys per octave, in a tuning system from a time when D # and Eb were different things. This is an ex...

02/07/2024

And stay off my lawn!

Tonight we're taking a look at Tears For Fears performing 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World' live, and comparing it to the original release! Original Video ...

01/26/2024

While they were originally designed for novices, Omnichords been used creatively by musicians for decades, and now have a cult status.

01/06/2024

https://youtu.be/IUlzYiUU9BY?si=YUcgZEbptSkxP9h5

In this episode I break down what I think is the greatest music interview ever: Dick Cavett interviewing Oscar Peterson in 1979.💫 The Beato Bundle — $99 FOR...

01/02/2024

https://youtu.be/v32U0mjGz6g?si=umu63tR8yqJl3yx_

Excerpts from the documentary Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution, originally broadcast April 25, 1967.

12/01/2023

https://youtu.be/LMtf7PtqIlw?si=z3pWLmdmdgePuv_o

►► FREE: Get the tabs, notation and practice tracks for all the Paul McCartney bass lines in this lesson → https://becomeabassist.com/227-beatles-bass-lines?...

11/23/2023

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I played one of the first solid body electric guitars Fender ever made, a totally mind blowing experience!▶SUPPORT PATREON◀https://www.patreon.com/pauldavids...

Now and Then's eventful journey to fruition took place over five decades and is the product of conversations and collaborations between the four Beatles that...

10/18/2023

https://youtu.be/ZXSkDGmg0PM?si=2D3At2xrJvre3_38

The Bandmaster Powerhouse is a drum machine unlike any other: it uses 8-Track tape recordings of drum and percussion loops to play back "Funky Beat", "Modern...

10/13/2023

https://youtu.be/TMtGImlEmu0?si=sAqsNG7_sG7J9W3Y

Time is running out to grab my new ebook at our 50% off launch sale! Get the ebook plus 40 downloadable backing tracks here! https://jazzpianoimprov.com/Foll...

08/21/2023

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Peter Gabriel has inhabited many roles. From a costumed prog poet in Genesis to a conservationist balladeer on the Wall-E soundtrack. However his run of self...

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I’ve spent over 25 years working in audio including 12 years as a Recording Engineer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Since 2015 I’ve been the Senior Audio Conservator with Library and Archives Canada.

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Shane Bryanton (M.Mus McGill Tonemeister)