Juli 2019

Radiolab: G: Unnatural Selection

https://pca.st/episode/09a5cd5d-aec2-4f9c-ad26-baa6e23f8e0f (31.7.2019)

  • Variation: what a species makes resilient is difference

  • Star Trek (TOS): ugenetic wars 

  • Mutations

  • AI Blackbox ... predicts height

  • Genomic Predictions

Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Podcast: Episode #276 – Musician’s Labor Relations, Focusrite Buys ADAM, And Engineer Steve Genewick

https://pca.st/episode/d1ce6baf-0785-4e7e-9d99-7e2f6e01dab7

  • Spending 90% of the day with Al Schmitt

  • Al: it’s never about him and the gear ... capture, what’s going on on the floor ... be prepared

  • It’s all about microphone, placement and the play

  • „This was the most complicated nothing I’ve ever seen“

  • Don’t use the EQ, talk to the player

  • Jeff Emmerich: EQs + Compressors on everything

  • Film Guys: STOP ... lighting & stuff

  • Capitol: 9:00 ... at 9:05, the first take is in

  • Academy awards ... 20 years ... biggest setup of the year ... preparing for a week

  • Dolby Atmos: Fun ... height channels

  • If I do it right, the speakers go away

  • Apple, Netflix: Streaming Movies in Dolby Atmos

  • Big Band Dolby Atmos: Microphones in front of the conductor ... feels like in the room

  • Business advice: Treat is as a business ... Keep of your schedule, pay your taxes

  • Andrew Sheps: Don’t be a dick 😃

The James Altucher Show: 475: David Bach - What Do You Need to Retire? (& How to Invest Money That Aligns with Your Values)

https://pca.st/episode/9bab7964-5025-4aab-addd-d182615b861d (30.7.2019)

DISGRACELAND: After Party 6 (Mini Episode)

https://pca.st/episode/f1c89010-91ee-4344-a92a-0a20e7485e21 (30.7.2019)

  • Jim Morrison as the Zodiac killer (spoof)

  • Mick (Sex) + Drugs (Keith) = Rock& Roll

  • Filmtipp: The Beach Bum

Criminal: Episode 119: He's Still Neutral

https://pca.st/episode/ffd7ece0-1110-4ebd-b290-d196c712a395 (30.7.2019)

  • Buddha in the backyard 

  • Prostitution and crime gone

  • The Buddha Of Oakland

  • 11th Avenue and East 19th Street, oakland, E 19th St, Oakland, CA 94606, USA

  • https://goo.gl/maps/E8vSoFJdfpq3jhF36

  • Design out crime

  • Wasserabweisenden Farbe gegen Urin

  • Open hydrants to cool down the city (NYC)

  • Guerilla gardening: Äpfel auf dem Ahornbaum

Radiolab: G: Unfit

https://pca.st/episode/f3035ce8-2715-49b3-810f-9817706047c7 (29.7.2019)

  • Eugenic

  • Sterilisation on purpose ... needs to be done

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast: Geena Davis

https://pca.st/episode/7faccdb6-3ffa-48ff-a93c-e271442b8c9b (29.7.2019)

  • Doku: This changes everything 

  • „A little to the right, Jack“

  • In the business from 3 years on

  • New Jersey Monthly

  • Tootsie

  • Sitting to Sidney Pollack all day long ... dailies with Dustin Hoffman

  • Guest Spots: Fantasy Island, Knight Rider

  • The FLY (Cronenberg) ... Producer: Mel Brooks

  • Cronenberg, Ridley Scott ... calm, comfortable

  • Beetlejuice

  • Thelma & Louise ... Low budget Ridley Scott

  • Two female leads: done 

  • Gender Bias

  • Test: change any character to female

  • Bias bias: black women

  • Short film competition without names: from 17% to 50:50

  • Fragile male ego vs. history of dominance 

The Chernobyl Podcast: 1:23:45

https://pca.st/episode/fff454ee-1e7b-46b2-8f82-6559cb6f5fa1 (18.7.2019)

  • The cost of lies, the danger of narrative

  • Challenger

  • Odd laps: Titanic? Sank! How? Iceberg!

  • E01: Safety Test ... Ironic

  • The trough just doesn’t care ... the people who suffer don’t lie

  • NO Russian accents

  • People don’t act ... they Act accents

  • Production Design: Obsession

  • Miner helmet: one ☝️ 

  • Not told as expected

  • This denial is real

  • Soviet Version of „fake news“: I don’t believe, what you are saying

  • Cut the phone lines, don’t let anybody in or out

  • Graphite from the Core ... real

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast: David Lee Roth

https://pca.st/episode/32bb4c79-f71c-4c06-8c68-386e30d5f0ab (18.7.2019)

  • Dire straights vs. Van Halen: First album same year

  • David Lee Roth ... Stage Clown 🤡 

  • Brilliant thinker

  • McDonalds: order anything

  • Heart of the Buddha, hand of the devil

  • Bob Dylan ... think about that last name (Zimmerman)

  • LA Philharmonic

  • Reading, writing and transposing

  • David: Clarinet ... Leonard Bernstein on the wall

  • If you didn’t sing good, you went up and h chimneys

  • Run with the devil ... jump ... all verbs

  • Sigfried and Roy: don’t forget to feed the tiger

  • Pronounce „Chopin“ the right way: wrong? Doing scales like pushups

  • The guy with the most tricks lasts the longest

  • Start with A, let me know when Spinate to Z  ... see you in a decade

  • Stay tough ... sleep on the floor once a week

  • In between the songs is as portent as the songs itself

  • Bad weather vs. Bad weather

  • David: Pirate 🏴‍☠️ + musician

  • Playing Django Reinhardt for two hours ... dinner and drinks

  • Mammoth: Van Halen als wedding band

  • European Music Training ... Van Halen Senior

  • „We hated each other“

  • Titts and Pitts

  • Dutch + Indonesian ... rassist environment

  • Jue never good enough vs. halfbreed bullying

  • You Neve forget who showed you that chord or riff

  • Van Halen I changed the Universe

  • Musically: craftsmanship ... perfect edges, perfect corners ... a tactical team moving through the darkness

  • Wabasabi: perfect because of imperfection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

  • „Somewhere over the rainbow“ ... 2 writers

  • All Rockbands fracture ... we never got along

  • Everybody can imitate surf music 🎶 

  • Who is your Led Zeppelin? Who teaches the teachers? 

  • TheRothShow (Podcast)

  • „Hey asshole“

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Working Class Audio: WCA #236 with Cameron Webb

https://pca.st/episode/e27d4e1d-4320-475f-a197-e804d2aa6094 (5.7.2019)

  • Runner job ... best runner in the World

  • Madonna, Dr. Dre

  • If you don’t know how to clean a toilet, you will never be a good assistant 

  • Learning online is a good start ... you don’t learn responsibly and attention to detail 

  • Watch professionals do their thing 

  • Set up early, be ready ... what if Michael Jackson comes in for 3 minutes?

  • You can’t teach online, how to be in it day by day ... early hours

  • Silvia Massey: setup for smashing pumpkins with a different band the day before 

  • „I want Cameron“ ... Butch Smalls

  • Longest session: Friday 11:00 - Monday 11:00

  • Don’t lie about not know

  • Pennywise: we trust you ... we hire you ... young are the professional ... no changes

  • Terry Date: Pantera ... pre Pro Tools

  • MJ: One day setup ... wild

  • NRG Recording Studios

  • Tune vocals, edit drums

  • 100 hour weeks

  • You just fired my ... I quit

  • Show up, shake hands

  • Be patient, let them make mistakes

  • Don’t force YOUR sound on them ... don’t be stock ... search uniqueness

  • Motörhead, Aristocrats

  • Work life balance ... separate!

  • Friend vs. Client: wer würde dir bei einem „flat tire“ helfen? Lemmy!

  • Odd hours ... 4am w/o money

  • Money: just keep it and don’t spend it (hide it in the bank)

  • Ressources bs. Happiness

  • Artists are more important than YOU ... you are working on THEIR music

  • 70% psyhology, 30% Knowledge of the gear ... it’s about trust

  • Yo Gabba Gabba

  • https://youtu.be/O6CNdlJp9c8 Pool Party

Steve Lukather (Toto) - Gear Run 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5GIrg3pojI (4.7.2019)

  • Pedaltrain … for Fly Gigs

  • Xotic SP Compressor … Bombastortion … 707/808/909 Boost/Drive

  • Wet/Dry/Wet

Switched on Pop: "Prince Ali" and Why We're All Music Theorists

https://pca.st/episode/0308197b-2f0c-43be-a156-77d5fe4ffeaf (4.7.2019)

  • Strong opinions

  • Cartoonish production vs. Live action version

  • BPM: Old (110) vs. New (102)

  • Lady Gaga: 120 BPM ... Andante (70 BPM)

  • Walking speed: 120 BPM

  • Alan Menken ... 

  • B Minor vs. Bb Minor

  • „D Minor is the sadest“ (Spinal Tap)

  • Black keys 🎹 guiding the hands (Stevie Wonder)

  • War-scales 

Switched on Pop: What BTS's "Boy With Love" ft. Halsey Can Teach Us About K-pop

https://pca.st/episode/cb533f55-df7e-4f3a-8379-a8c06feacca2 (4.7.2019)

  • Keyboard Pop, cleenex Pop (disposable) ... Caleidoscopic Pop (more than Music)

  • More clicks on YouTube = visual & co

  • „Kidult“ = Multi generational fandom 

  • K-Pop's natural habitat is cyberspace

  • https://youtu.be/XsX3ATc3FbA Boy With Love

  • Most viewed 24 hour debut in YouTube history

  • K-Pop stars are made ... Factory Pop ... SM Idols

  • There is no logic to K-Pop: concept over music

  • „50s Retro feminist look“ – Go!

  • Songwriters as part of a team

  • „I got a boy“: EDM > Hip Hop

  • Cultural currency

  • https://youtu.be/ZbB4SYJNuTo Latin Jazz Fusion

  • Global „Kdult“ market because of illegal downloads 

DISGRACELAND: Jim Morrison: Zodiac Killer Qu'est-ce Que C'est

https://pca.st/episode/a9e5eae8-c9e4-42c9-a8bb-af8ffe282e4c (3.7.2019)

  • Anthem Stadion scream section

  • Aprils fool

  • (aufgehört)

Twenty Thousand Hertz: Sonic Illusions

https://pca.st/episode/7af0a0ba-3490-4e46-ad87-1fea5dac0985 (3.7.2019)

  • Barber shop

  • Shepard tone in „Dunkirk“

  • Narrative Shepard tone ... continuing rise in intensity

  • Shepard tone in „Super Mario“

  • „Laura“ and „yeanny“

  • Nowhere vs. Noway ... hilda vs. Countdown

  • Hearing sounds vs. Constructions in our brain

  • Green needle vs. Brainstorm

  • Ascending Tritones

  • Dialekt macht einen großen Unterschied, was wir bei Audio Illusionen hören

Your Mix Sucks (Mixed by Marc Mozart): Chris Lord-Alge aka CLA: mixing 20.000 songs

https://pca.st/episode/5bf194e1-3ef3-447b-8d37-6ef3d3038a57 (3.7.2019)

  • CLA @ Frankfurter Musikmesse

  • Avantone CLA-10A

  • Boombox Mixing ... put it in a random place

  • Be focused, be in the moment ... don’t try to outthink

  • Workflow hasn’t change since the 80s ... gain structure ... studio is like a piano

  • SSL: using the Counsel as an insert ... 48 buses

  • Clients buy for the stems

  • Revisions: Recall Really ... Update the stems

  • No shortcuts ... it’s my reputation

  • Serve the artist, serve the music

  • Don’t give something away where someone makes money with it

  • CLA products: below $1.000.–

Merci, Chérie - Der Eurovision Podcast: #16 Aufrecht verlieren! - Mit Lukas Plöchl (Trackshittaz) aka Wendja

https://pca.st/episode/ed28d6c3-01c8-46f4-b45f-9cfde6b4d967 (3.7.2019)

  • Kodo Designsprache

  • 2. Vorname: Wendja

  • Freistadt 

  • Anteile der Häuser werden in Bier ausbezahlt 

  • Poet und Prolet

  • Zivildienst in der Flüchtlingsbetreuung

  • Apres Austria ... Party + Denkerschiene

  • Genredenken: entweder / oder

  • „Auf der Reise ins Nirvana, saufen wir uns ins Delirium. Wir preisen Dalai Lama, Lifestyle und Drama und meditieren uns dumm.“

  • Kultur snippets Lifestyle

  • Trackshittaz: YouTube stars 

  • https://youtu.be/QXcrNNrIKkg

  • Urheberrechtlichsbruch ... keine Rechte am Sample

  • Schmerzensgeld zahlt Equipment

  • Helden von morgen

  • https://youtu.be/B1xKML6kgyI Katrina and the waves

  • Mit dem Traktor nach Düsseldorf (Song Contest) ... Geschenk vom Bürgermeister

  • Woki mit deim Popo ... Club 2

  • Trackshittaz vs. Conquita Wurst

  • Immer 2. ... Songwriters camp: Immer Zimmer 222

  • Papa: Nationalteamtrainer

  • Kreuzbandriss

  • Tech vs. Esmpensau

  • https://youtu.be/BKQf8Z5uWQ8 ESC 2012

  • Aufgeschaukelte „Pornoshow“

  • #TS15

  • Zerstört der Songcontest Karrieren?

  • Nein! Nicht auf Hypes setzten

  • Fernsehshow vs. Reale Musikwelt

  • Paenda

  • Song Contest ist eine eigene Disziplin

  • Guilty pleasure

  • Aserbaidschan als Gastgeber

  • Autokratie ... Stadtteil abgerissen ... Ausstellung über die Chrystal Hall

Building My Dream Pedalboard

https://youtu.be/tKDRhMdjZQ8 (2.7.2019)

  • Kontaktspray

  • Duolock ... weniger Klett ist mehr

  • Klett a bissi in die Mitte, damit man das weiße nicht sehen kann

  • Strymon Bridge

  • Sharing power ... fuzzes can be tricky

  • Power roadmap

  • Wild card slots ... easy accessible 

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin: Who is Banksy?

https://pca.st/episode/6d2033f4-f734-42ed-8ba1-60a3ea6f9099 (2.7.2019)

  • Jeff Koons, Shepard Ferry, Banksy ... Risk jailtime and bankruptcy

  • Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman 

  • Is it ok to laugh at a Woody Allen joke?

  • Origin matters

  • Secret identities (Batman)

  • Superman in off hours

  • Banksy – a man of Mystery = Robert Cunningham 

  • Secret identity vs. Secret (not showing your art)

  • We judge the origin where it came from ... no gatekeepers anymore

No Guitar Is Safe: Jamie Kime

https://pca.st/episode/ac984f5c-c2c3-425d-bef2-26a819739cb8 (01.07.2019)

  • Social Media is a new skill

  • „Do you“... don’t try to be someone else

  • C#maj7 over D-Minor

  • Garden variety chords

  • Messiaen: Modes of Limited Transposition 

  • C D D# E F# G G# A# B 

  • Triads within (major, minor)

  • Bedroom scales vs. Stage (popping out)

  • Rig: Fender baseman heads, Marshall plexi ... Wet/Dry with Echoplex ... Fryette Powerstation

  • Guitar > dirty amp > delay

  • Roland/BOSS „OX“-Clone

  • Reverb Nerd

  • 2x12“ (Dry) + 2x10“ (Wet)

  • Zappa plays Zappa ... Grammy ... 3 months rehearsals 

  • Bozzio + Vai

  • Blanko Grammy

How to Build an All-in-One Rack for Your Band | GEAR GODS

https://youtu.be/Q93DpFbD2BQ (01.07.2019)

Working Class Audio: WCA #235 with Dave Nelson

https://pca.st/episode/1933717f-49ba-48c0-9f60-1ebf48cf41db (01.07.2019)

  • Give stuff away („can you get rid of this for me?)

  • Gerald Ford ... staying after ringing

  • Tape recorder for 30.000 bucks + Dolby

  • Laurie Anderson

  • AI vs. Ears

  • Thoughts on partnering

  • Dolby certified

  • Skywalker ranch: rooms the size of a movie theatre

  • Competition: Skywalker ... they don’t need to make money

  • Soundminer

  • Affected by Hendrix, Coltrane, Laurie Anderson ... 2019? Soundtracks 

  • Foley in one pass

  • David Lynch ... managing ... Euphonix

  • Work Life Sacrifice

  • Physically strong and mentally fit for studio work

  • Mixing at theatrical levels

  • Walter Murch ... standup desks