Exploiting Your Audience

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Last night I watched a highly controversial movie (who’s title I shall omit). This was a movie that won awards in multiple categories and was generally embraced by the public. I had a major problem with it, and to me it is the same problem facing the arts. I’ve previously described musical vagueness in this blog post. It is an …

Working With Headphones

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Headphones sometimes get a bad rap in our industry as being unreliable, and quite often that is the case. For example many headphones have strange things going on the bass regions where their sound can be boosted or missing. However I’ve found that I work best with headphones, and if one is quite careful with output levels (to protect the …