Personally I don't like the sound of the ROKIT speakers. I'm quite happy with my pair of JBL 305P (Mk II, whatever). The main annoyance is that they go into standby after a few minutes of (almost) no signal, and need a certain signal level to pop back out. Some detailed tests/reviews also noted some...

Another Airwindows recommendation: ADClip8 , a clipping-based loudness maximizer. Clipping is the "other" type of loudness maximization, with the more popular type being brickwall limiting. The advantage of a clipper is that it doesn't mess with the dynamics, aside from shaving off peaks o...

A few amazing free reverbs from Airwindows: CreamCoat - general-purpose reverb that sounds very smooth even at extremely short tail lengths. It has a bunch of different reverb models (the "Select" slider, towards the right they tend to get bigger). "Regen" controls the tail lengt...

Damn. We never met in person but he was a fixture in the (now defunct, I suppose) IRC channel, and I always appreciated his presence and input. I don't think he ever managed to make a Song Fight submission that I hated. No small feat, that. Rest in peace, I will always remember you.

Too Lost has a form too and I’ve filled it out many times and each time they say it’ll be taken care of. It never is. I’m not sure if the problem is with Too Lost or if it’s on YouTube’s end. All LANDR has to say about it is that YT's review process takes several weeks which matches what I read in ...

To be fair, this user title is older than Musk's Artificial Stupidity agent of the same name.

Technically IK does do crossgrade prices but I think they're usually not applicable on top of the massive discounts on Total Studio MAX, so they're kind of worthless.

Correction. Exactly 0% of those royalties came from Spotify.

PS. LANDR appears to have a dedicated form to link YouTube artist channels. I haven't tested it though.

Normally, for migrating releases, reusing the UPC and ISRC is the right thing to do (a new UPC should be used only if it's a different release), the documentation from all distributors is unanimous about that. And it's normal to have a bit of overlap in which royalties still go to the old distributo...

A few issues on the landing page on songfight.net: MG's wiki has been offline for years. The IRC channel has moved to OFTC (irc.oftc.net) because the previous location (Mibbit) shut down. We haven't been in euIRC (as indicated in the text) in a very long time. Technically, Twitter no longer exists. ...

I totally would have worked with them, but since I couldn't get to the point where they'd let me actually log in... yeah.

They failed to send me an activation/confirmation email when I tried to sign up. I tried ten times.
I use LANDR now.

Auto-Tune is currently 50% off (all editions). This is a pretty rare deal, I think. https://www.antarestech.com/ AFAIK this deal runs until 9 Jun. Native Instruments have started their usual summer sale with 50% off KOMPLETE (including updates/upgrades, however keep in mind that buying an update/up...

Nick Cave famously described AI-written lyrics as "a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human" in a post from January 2023. I just discovered that he doubled down on this later when someone asked him what was wrong about "faster and easier": https://www.theredhandfiles.com/cha...

I've never really had any reason to be confused about my identity (for the most part, but this isn't about me), but I do have a lot of empathy for people who struggle with that, and have to deal with all of the friction with, well, less understanding people on top of that. I don't think anyone wants...

All editions of Auto-Tune are currently 50% off. https://antarestech.com/

BFD3 is once again at its cheapest: $49 (regular >$300). Also all expansions are on sale, up to 75% off (but most more like 50%). https://www.kvraudio.com/marketplace/deals?brand=bfd-drums&type=0&sort=price-latest-discount or via the BFD website, https://bfddrums.com/ (check both places, not...

Don't have a bass/guitar amp sim plugin yet? This one is free for another 19 hours with coupon code FREEYOURMUSIC:
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No, a single plugin can do this sort of thing just fine, it's just that Cubase's Limiter sucks, and Cubase's Maximizer sucks for different reasons. :) One thing I notice different between our two experiments - besides the nature of the plugin used, of course - is that the waveform you used appears t...

This is getting a bit off topic but I figure it's kind of important to know... If we could just run the whole song through a limiter to keep it from clipping and then boost everything by a few db, it would be easier to listen to, right? [...] So I tried that. [...] You can see on the red version tha...

iZotope's Nectar 3 Elements is currently free: https://www.izotope.com/en/products/downloads/nectar_elements.html Nectar is a voice processing plugin that features automatic EQ, dynamics processing, pitch correction and de-essing. The controls in this version are quite limited but hey, can't beat th...

KV331 Audio's SynthMaster 2 is currently 78% off - $29 instead of $129. If you want to do some fairly involved synth tinkering but not drop a lot of money on something like Omnisphere, HALion, Reaktor, Falcon or some such, you could do a lot worse than this. Sale ends tomorrow. https://www.kv331audi...