Industry Tips and Advice: Song Dynamics, Grabbing the listeners attention

by Andy Cahan, the Demo Doctor The term, “dynamics” refers to whether a sound is “soft” or “loud”. The ability of a recording medium to reproduce the difference between soft and loud is called its “Dynamic Range”. Vinyl records and cassette tapes have a limited dynamic range of about 20 db, while modern CDs and [...]

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Carvin, Fender & other NAMM show standouts

Talk about a really big show: With more than 1,400 exhibitors, whose wares covered more than 800,000 square feet at the Anaheim Convention Center, the just-concluded 2012 NAMM show may have overwhelmed even the most dedicated of its 95,709 attendees. For the second year in a row, one exhibit area was devoted exclusively to music-related [...]

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