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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: The New Gig Economy—Studio Edition
These days, artists have to do it all themselves and be their own manager, producer, mastering engineer, merch maven and more. How do we...
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Craig Anderton’s Open Channel: The AI Cesspool Has Arrived
Not only is the AI genie out of the bottle, the genie has acquired tactical nuclear weapons. Welcome to 2025.
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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: A Perspective on Perspectives
Maybe people just have a hard time reconciling that two opposing viewpoints can both be correct....
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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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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: 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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Open Channel: In Praise of Things That Destroy Music
With every new advancement in music technology comes a wave of outcry that music is being destroyed...but is it?
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Open Channel: Vintage Gear Emulations
Craig Anderton ponders, "Why is there a fascination with vintage gear, anyway?"
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Open Channel: MIDI Two Point…Oh!
What’s most exciting about MIDI 2.0 is what we don’t know is most exciting about MIDI 2.0....yet.
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Open Channel: Watch Your Language!
Craig Anderton plumbs the depths of definitions as he tries to figure out which technical terms mean what when.
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Open Channel: Who’s Right? Who’s Wrong? Who Cares?
Many a studio argument stems less from who's right and who's wrong than where each party is coming from and their frame of reference....
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Open Channel: How the Loudness Wars Turned Guerrilla
Historians note that the Loudness Wars ended in the early 21st century. It was a step in the right direction…after which, some took a...
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Open Channel: To Get the Right Answer…Ask the Right Question
If our creative recording skills are going to move forward, we need to rethink what we're trying to achieve and how we're going to...
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Authenticity and the Art of Performance
"Yes, anything goes, and that’s what this column is about. Expect opinions, praise, complaints, controversy, and of course, occasional moments of blinding stupidity."
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