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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Navigating the Survival of Sound
After recovering what’s left of our past, what will we do in the present to preserve our heritage for the future?
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: The Race Against Time: In Search of the Lost Chords
Preserving vintage recordings that were created on analog tape has become a challenging race against time.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Vanishing Voices
In this first part of a three-part series, we’ll cover what we’ve lost when it comes to recent-era audio, and why we lost it....
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Turning the Industry Around
It’s been said before, but Mix columnist Craig Anderton decides it's time to add his own twist to ‘Live music is where the money...
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Do We Have the Ick from Ek?
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek recently drove the internet into a frenzy with a single tweet, here, pro audio industry guru Craig Anderton responds.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Missing The Point
Let’s check out YouTube! Hey, this looks interesting: a video with the ominous title “The Plugin Scam Exposed. Did You Fall for It?” Uh-oh…that...
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: A Perspective on Perspectives
Maybe people just have a hard time reconciling that two opposing viewpoints can both be correct....
Business
Sam Ash Music to Shutter All Retail Locations
A mainstay of the MI and pro-audio retail sector for 100 years, Sam Ash Music announced that it will close all its physical retail...
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: I’m Just Asking Questions…
No, this isn’t a thinly disguised attempt to ask leading questions and get away with it, like some people in the media do. These...
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Can You Negotiate With AI?
The music industry desperately needs revisions to the copyright laws to take AI changes into account—but it can’t just stop there.
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Mix Nominated for 2024 Neal Awards
Mix has been named as a finalist in two categories for the 70th Jesse H. Neal Awards, the premier awards honoring business-to-business (B2B) journalism.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Stepping Up to the Tipping Point
Women dominated the Grammy Awards. Not because they had a special welcome mat, but because they made music that people wanted to hear.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Good Morning, Your Hardware Is Worthless
There’s the 800-pound gorilla in the room: e-waste. The audio industry is a tiny part of the problem, but we are part of it....
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MIDI Association Taps Focusrite’s Tim Carroll
Focusrite Group CEO Tim Carroll has been named the new president of the MIDI Association.
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MIDI Association Gears Up for NAMM 2024
The MIDI Association will present four full days of activity focused on the new MIDI 2.0 standard at the NAMM Show 2024.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: The Atmos Trilogy, Book Three
Let's peek into the future—where’s Atmos going? Will it take over the world, or will it fizzle like previous efforts to market surround?
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: An Open Letter to Santa Audio…
I’m convinced Santa Audio exists, so I’m writing a “Dear Santa Audio” letter about what I would like to see in 2024.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Speed Bumps in the Immersion Transition?
The problem becomes how to transition from stereo to immersive. Creating immersive content isn’t enough.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: So…Who Needs “New” Mixes?
Lots of cherished music is being remixed and remastered for immersive music formats, but are those mixes more about the sound than the music...
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Dear Screenwriters and SAG-AFTRA
Columnist Craig Anderton pens an open letter from the music industry to the Hollywood unions on strike.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Hitting the Ceiling
The past few years have seen multiple MI company acquisitions, but can the industry maintain the kind of growth that private equity often demands?
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YouTube Makes a Statement on AI and Music
Platform establishes a set of three AI Music Principles and launches YouTube Music AI Incubator in partnership with UMG.
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Auerbach Rebrands as Apeiro Design
Auerbach Pollock Friedlander and Auerbach Glasow has rebranded itself as Apeiro Design.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Music Technology? Or, the Technology of Music?
Craig Anderton explores whether our fascination with the technology of music distracts us from the art of music technology.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Living With Uncertainty
There's a lot of uncertainty facing the pro audio industry, coming at it from many angles at once -- but is that a bad...
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Endel, UMG Team to “Reimagine” Tracks Using AI on Artists’ Stems
UMG and Endel have entered a strategic relationship where Endel will apply AI to artist-provided stems to “reimagine” them as soundscapes.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Does AI Stand for “Attorneys Incoming”?
Last September, I wrote an Open Channel about AI. Is it too soon to revisit the topic? Well, AI is reshaping the world at...
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London’s Famed AIR Studios Launches AIR Mastering
Alchemy Mastering at AIR has moved into AIR Studios' Lyndhurst premises in London and is now known as AIR Mastering.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel – Mastering the Art of Mastering
Is Mastering having a Kodak Moment? And is that a good thing...or a bad thing?
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Mix Guest Blog: Professor Louie on Building Trust with an Artist
Veteran producer/engineer/musician Aaron "Professor Louie" Hurwitz shares how he develops trust with artists.
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Streaming, Vinyl Sales Drive RIAA Revenue Record
The RIAA is reporting all-time high recorded music revenues for the seventh straight year, fueled by streaming and the vinyl revival.
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: Profiles in Gear Lust
Gear. We love gear! But there are many different ways of loving gear—so let us count the ways.
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Mix Blog: (Re)Discovering Why I Love Music
I’ve had a whole lot of fun listening to music lately, and it all started about three or four months ago...
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Open Channel: You Matter. Yes, You.
Don’t believe anyone who tells you that musicians don’t matter, engineers don’t have any skills that can’t be acquired by choosing the right plug-in,...
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Open Channel: Is the Race to the Bottom Over?
Is audio quality finally not just for sound professionals and audiophiles? Craig Anderton weighs in.
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Open Channel: The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta…Write About It
Craig Anderton feels music, and the general population, are reaching a tipping point—find out what it is.
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Open Channel: The Vast Wasteland of Artist Development
What if streaming services were to develop new, exciting artists who took advantage of immersive music's power?
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Open Channel: Why We Need to Re-Invent Documentation
Documentation can be the Achilles heel of any software—or its saving grace. But is there a better way to teach users?
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Open Channel: Can Artificial Stupidity Save Us From AI?
Will AI will ruin music production? Craig Anderton suggests that the only way to beat artificial intelligence is with artificial stupidity.
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Craig Anderton Debuts Pro Tools Tips E-Book
Longtime Mix columnist Craig Anderton has released his latest e-book, Innovative Techniques for Pro Tools.
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Open Channel: Warning—Stability Ahead
Craig Anderton discusses what we can learn about the current state of the music industry from our old, reliable friend, the op amp.