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17 November 2019
How to use a compressor
by Dan Davies
A compressor is a tool that we use to control the dynamic range of our source. With our recorded sound we have RMS & peak. RMS is our continuous level. Peak is our initial transient - the loudest part in our sound wave. We use compressors to attenuate the difference...
10 April 2019
Guitar Workouts, Drums, Piano, what else?! March 2019 update
by Dan Davies
There's a lot going on at Musicisum HQ, and we've made a video to tell you all about it! Guitar Workouts Guitar Workouts is our next course, coming super soon! We teamed up with our good pal and photographer extraordinaire Max Taylor Grant to put together an intense guitar workout...
10 April 2019
The Record Store Day paradox
by Remfry Dedman
‘Record stores can’t save your life. But they can give you a better one.’ Nick Hornby Since 2008, Record Store Day has endeavoured to celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store. With the rise of digital music sales and online retailers, it was a bright initiative to remind...
01 April 2019
The tricky balance of adapting music to screen (or why Lords of Chaos is a much better film than The Dirt)
by Remfry Dedman
In a fairly uncharacteristic move for the film industry, two movies are set for release just one week apart (in the UK at least) which are both firmly entrenched in a consistently misunderstood and misrepresented music genre; metal. The first, distributed worldwide last Friday on Netflix, is the long-awaited screen...
18 March 2019
Spotify think songwriters deserve to be paid more ... so why aren’t they paying them more?
by Remfry Dedman
On January 27th 2019, a potential landmark decision in the music streaming services market was made; the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) ruled that royalty rates paid to songwriters in the US from on-demand subscription streaming will rise by 43.8% between the period 2018 – 2022. This means that the overall...
11 March 2019
Reconciling artistic pleasure with moral disgust
by Remfry Dedman
My timeline and Twitter feed have been filled primarily with a subject that has caused bitter divisions and public arguments over the putative actions of a musical legend who died almost 10 years ago. I’m referring of course to Michael Jackson who is back in the news after yet more...