Mai 2018

Working Class Audio: WCA #180 with Bobby Owsinski

http://pca.st/episode/e0318494-47ae-4c78-8dde-046f1ff94ca4 (30.5.2018)

  • Owsinski: Dirty work deligiert (Podcast)

  • Happiest Day: being a studio person

  • Bobby: musician ... auch wenn er selten spielt 

  • Time vs. money ... früher viel Zeit, kein Geld ... jetzt: viel Geld, keine Zeit

  • VHS: Kids ... der Film ist da drauf? Cooool

  • Andrew Sheps: in the box vs. RHCP

  • Jetzt: Die analoge Referenz „is gone“

  •  „you have to be into evolving if you gonna survive in this business, it’s gonna go with or without you.“

  • Part Of the studio work: interactions in the breaks (Dolly Parton, Lionell Richie)

  • Sound Exchance: Plays on Pandora

  • 3.000.000 plays vs. €30.- 

  • Physical million = a lot. Digital ... not in the radar ... 50 mio hit ... 500 mio major hit

The Do Me A Solid Show: DAVID FLEMING

http://pca.st/episode/c3766249-bd31-411b-935f-fb5a2df1f836 (30.5.2018)

  • Hans Zimmer: very concepional 

  • Planet Earth

  • 4K: Turn off smoothing

  • Serientipp: High Maintenance, Westworld

  • Muted TV during working ... healthy?

The James Altucher Show: 359 - Keith Hernandez: Talent & Obsession (A Formula for Grit)

http://pca.st/episode/1b3e71a2-30e7-43d7-871c-02dfe3397227 (30.5.2018)

  • 100 Wörter am Tag: 3 Jahre, 300 Wörter am Tag: 1 Jahr

  • Difference: making a phone call vs. watching GOT

Twenty Thousand Hertz: Amen Break

http://pca.st/episode/dc2696e0-208f-4abd-97c6-a7c5e5f42c6a (29.5.2018)

Score: The Podcast: The Stranger Things Effect (Bonus)

http://pca.st/episode/0e9240c9-e10e-40d1-9237-bfdec22b6d0a (29.5.2018)

Score: The Podcast: Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein, The Inside Track with Dr. Siu-Lan Tan & Name That Score

http://pca.st/episode/024df7b3-2163-480e-9a33-12c4f7f31ca4 (29.05.2018)

  • Licensing Queen ... das wird teuer

  • Bohemian Rhapsody (Waynes World) ... Song blew up ... größer als bei der Erstveröffentlichung

  • Beispiel: $ 1.000.000.- für stairway to heaven ... nur der Trailer

  • Stranger Things 1 2 3

  • THE INSIDE TRACK:

  • The lost weekend (Billy Wilder) ... Original Musik vs. Allegro (Barber)

  • Fragen: what could this man be Thinking, what are this mans circumstances, what could happen next ... alles ändert sich: Wetter, Stimmung der Stadt, loneliness

  • Beispiel: Saturday Night

  • Fever ... Intro shot

  • Too TV ... too „cuey“

  • Even Stranger Things

  • Theme: Matched to the picture

  • Ella Vader (Darth Vader marrying Ella Fitzgerald)

  • Maria ... The Simpsons ... BTTF ... #11

  • Poltergeist 3 ... skyscraper (Tipp)

  • Tipp: Room 237 (Doku über Shining)


Note to Self: Whose Bot Army Is Following Manoush?

http://pca.st/episode/5f319ab0-a149-4998-bef0-eb7442fe84cc (29.5.2018)

  • Chunk news vs. fake news

Big Questions with Cal Fussman: Manchester: A Lesson in Triumph over Tragedy

http://pca.st/episode/a3db5bbe-9195-4674-80d1-3341be887a3f (29.5.2018)

  • IMAGINE, CREATE, EXECUTE, DELIVER

  • Bombing at a concert ... fight back 

  • Ariana Superfans ... built a following ... world 

Recording Studio Rockstars: RSR141 - Nick Worley - Capturing The Soul Of A Band In The Studio

http://pca.st/episode/203f876d-9ef0-4e98-be46-dae2729999dd (28.5.2018)

  • No undo on tape ... macht den Prozess am Ende schneller (commitment)

  • Overrehearsed vs. Studio Microscope

  • Studio = new instrument

  • Erkenntnis: Demo Aufnahme klingen sooo unterschiedlich, abhängig davon, wo man das Mikro hinstellt (gleicher Typ, gleiche chew Equipment)

  • Keep the better take: Sound vs. Performance ... mistakes vs. energy

  • Studio: Einzelperformances vs. Band im Raum ... schlecht schlafen vor „Tracking days“ hört nie auf

  • Problem: drums first? Alle anderen müssen folgen ... man vs. Computer

  • All about „bleed“

  • Studio vs. houses

  • Vintage Sound vs. dressing up like vintage

  • The drums make the record 

  • 5 guys, 5 mics  

  • Bleeding scratch vocals

  • Electric guitar sounds? Work it from the amp

  • 2 Mics Alligned, Phase flip check 

  • Pro Tools backseat

  • Advice: turn off the phone

  • Attitude: sharp pencils ... be prepared 

  • Plugin Tipp: seventh heaven (liquid audio)

  • Put yourself out there

Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Podcast: Episode #214 – Universal Music Going Public, Shure Exits Phono Cart Biz, And Post Mixer Mike Rodriguez

http://pca.st/episode/ddeeb8e7-44bb-4058-ac31-8b53018e1aa4 (28.5.2018)

The James Altucher Show: 354 - Mike Massimino: You Can’t Control the Outcome, So Keep Doing What You Love

http://pca.st/episode/2fea12a4-7260-4a60-b7ab-ed7ff3fa02bd (25.5.2018)

The Shape Of Water "A Visionary Filmmaker: Guillermo del Toro" Featurette (2017)

https://youtu.be/uzGazihiNEo (25.5.2018)

  • Guillermo del Toro: „For me it’s not a matter of how many people like it but how deep people like it.“

StarTalk Radio: Cosmic Queries: Minds and Machines

http://pca.st/episode/f0d249c2-7a2f-4479-ad85-2cbfaf05d5dd (24.5.2018)

  • Blurry memories

  • Your brain is not a videorecorder 

  • Remembering movies as life experience?

  • Buchtipp: Guitar Zero

  • Cyberhacking will happen 

  • Human Augmentation: Harvard Implant

  • Download and uploaded memories ... speichern und erinnern

  • Oprah-Neuron, Jennifer Aniston-Neuron

  • Tje frog and the foreleg ... hearing must be in the back right leg

  • Matrix Trinity: uploading helicopter skill

  • Muscle memories are in the brain  

  • Driverless Car vs. deep learning

Komponist? "Kann man davon leben?": Berufsrisiken und Skalierung

http://pca.st/episode/998ff45a-1876-4b5a-a6aa-2b25609b4dd1 (24.5.2018)

  • Zahlenspiele

  • Verschiedene Einkommensströme

  • Netflix läuft ORF den Rang ab

  • Geld vs. Zeit

The Tim Ferriss Show: Cindy Whitehead — How to Sell Your Company For One Billion Dollars

http://pca.st/episode/7825b841-bb4a-4065-9221-90179efd9196 (24.5.2018)

  • 3 Minute Call commercial: Vorstellrunde

  • Love of Business: What is the Business that you most admire (Interviewfrage)

  • beste Interviewfrage: open ended silence 

  • http://pca.st/episode/7825b841-bb4a-4065-9221-90179efd9196?t=1555.0

  • Frage: How is the very first way you made money 

  • Duck Balls

  • Nick name employees

  • “Get well spoon“

  • HSDD (Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder) ... serotonin vs. dopamine 

  • Viagra for females

  • book royalties: 12%-15%

  • male dysfunction in male: biological ... female dysfunction in female: psychological (assumption)

  • Performance obligations: wichtige Info, wenn man eine Firma verkauft

  • Je who cares the least wins

  • If you want money, ask for advice. If you want advice, ask for money.

  • Victory Party: Gewinn-Party, BEVOR man die „guten News“ bekommt. Genial ♥️

  • Absichtlich Dinge zurücklassen um die Konversation aufrecht zu erhalten

  • Buchtipps: „getting the ass“ und „getting passed no“

  • „flinch“ and let the silence do the work ... is this the best you can offer?

  • The rules of law and order vs. unwritten rules vs. breaking rules 

  • Angels: $ 100.000.000

  • Billion Dollar Exits

  • Money is Power ... women will give it back

  • Head Betty In Charge

  • „Amanda Fucking Palner“ ... frenemies ... Take that pain and wear it like a shirt.“

  • Books: Purple Cow (Seth Godin)

  • Tears of joy

  • Unexpected TED talks

  • Billboard: Fuck the unicorn. Be the workhorse.

  • Failure to success ... other examples

Score: The Podcast: John Powell on Scoring Solo: A Star Wars Story

http://pca.st/episode/90a8bd5c-5973-4dae-a315-4f505f3e5762 (23.5.1018)

  • Don’t be a player, be a composer

ID10T with Chris Hardwick: Natalie Dormer

http://pca.st/episode/54b7829a-41e7-4a9e-911c-a35cd6179583 (23.5.2018)

  • IKEA ... missing screw, 2x left handed

Radiolab: Unraveling Bolero

http://pca.st/episode/11e16e3f-3ffd-4bf5-9293-f2c5b30b28ce (23.5.2018)

  • Anne Adams

  • Mapping Bolero: a = silver, ab = Cooper, b = leave green

  • Ravel: pink bathing suit ... die Melodie kam vor dem baden

  • ||:  :|| 340 bars

  • „He is crazy“ @ the premiere

  • Knife: wrong side of the knife 

  • 1945: language gone AA, BB ...

  • Anne Adams: gleiche Symptome

  • Frontotemporal Dementia ... 50-60 Fälle

  • The drive to create is as primal as anything else in the body

  • Bolero: haunted


The Do Me A Solid Show: AUSTIN FRAY

http://pca.st/episode/735a622c-d503-4841-8a3b-346bade3f573 (22.05.2018)

  • John Williams: Jazz Painist

  • Erkennstnis: Der neue junge Simpsons-Komponist hat vorher noch nie etwas vertont ... hat Simpsons bis gesehen

  • Limitation: Orchestra 

  • Small fish

  • Desk as percussion’s ... for half the show

  • Baby Driver & The Shape Of Water (Tipps) ... Intimer Soundtrack, leise gespielt 

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast: Mary Steenburgen

http://pca.st/episode/1d482b93-2a39-45e2-9c5c-c34e6acb7af3 (22.05.2018)

  • Alexa: play some AC/DC

  • 3/5 siblings

  • Raised by a fairy 

  • Stranded in the living room (isolated)

  • Malcolm McDowell

  • Luxury: books 

  • DeNiro: „Alright, it’s not an accident that you are who you are“

  • Different directors ... shut up and say your line

  • Book Club

  • Story: Casting Director: Hudson Bay in, Wednesday night, Chicken Parmesan – Walkout

  • Jack Nicholson („didn’t sleep with him, by the way“)

  • Generic greeting (Ted Danson)

  • Josh Brolin Story

The Do Me A Solid Show: CHRIS LEDESMA

http://pca.st/episode/fa9d897a-daf7-4dbd-8fec-

b0bb0c5582c1 (22.5.2018)

  • Bleeding Fingers ... remote control studios

  • Dallas: Bruce Broughton

  • Music vs. Dialogue editor 

  • „Adams“-Family (Charles Adams) ... nameless characters

  • 9-12 months per episode ... song clearing: yes/no

  • Licensing & mechanical ... re-record if too expensive

  • Building Blocks: analoge (tape) Arbeitsweisen auf digital übertragen

  • 2 people on a Movie see the entire process: composer (creative person), editor (technical person)

  •  Encyclopedic memory

  • 600 episodes ... Favorite: Last Exit To Springfield (classical gas, yellow submarine)

  • Way beyond: Scherze zu oft wiederholen

  • the lovers love it, the haters hate it

  • SAE Profile: https://youtu.be/35ajpK1AJZc

Criminal: Episode 91: The "It" Girl

http://pca.st/episode/48b4c537-d8ec-4a6b-840b-0b107b3500fc (20.5.2018)

Radiolab: More or Less Human

http://pca.st/episode/34b245ce-c52e-4694-908c-c3598eeec695 (18.5.2018)

  • Chatbots vs. humans

  • Allan Turing: 2000

  • https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing-Test

  • Blueberry / Strawberry: Audience Test

  • Turing test passed

  • Ferby ... eerie

  • Emotional turing test (Barbie, Ferby, Gerby) ... Test: How long can you hold you upside down

  • Pleo Dinosaur 

Komponist? "Kann man davon leben?": Die Oberton-Reihe

http://pca.st/episode/c3f4f48f-051d-429c-adcc-0a7c00507fba (17.5.2018)

  • Obertonreihe sehr praxisorientiert

  • Bässe in Oktaven, quinten darüber, andere Akkordtöne noch höher

  • Ableitung: Reihenfolge = Stärke des Intervalls ... Verschmelzung vs. Komplexität/Dissonanz

  • Obertonreihe ist natürlich = das Ohr hat sich daran „gewöhnt“

  • Funktionen: Bass Range, Harmonic Range (3 Oktaven ... Open close), Effect Range ... auch Instrumente aus der harmonic Range nach oben holen

  • Hohe dopplungen ist ein natürlicher EQ ... besser als eine technische Lösung

  • Akkorde im im Effekt-Register werden nicht mehr als Akkorde wahrgenommen

  • Laut Obertonreihe: „schwächere“ Töne in das obere Register schieben

  • Stabil: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13

  • „Lydische“ Range

  • Quintenzirkel = Lydische Tonleiter bzw. Reflexion Lokrisch

  • Fehlendes Intervall in der Obertonreihe: b9 (ok mit Sept)

Komponist? "Kann man davon leben?": Know-How und Social Media

http://pca.st/episode/5f2275d7-08e7-4874-8154-e2dbf281f1d9 (17.5.2018)

  • Business als Komponist

  • Motivation/Mindset: Ich kann das beste Produkt der Welt herstellen 

  • Kann/Soll Selbstbewusstsein erzeugen

  • Professionell: Content präsentieren (auf Social Media & Co)

  • Key: privat/professionell trennen

  • Hans Zimmer: 10 Jahre des Lebens vs. 3 Filme für den Zuschauer (Batman)

  • Komponist + guter Mensch = schließt sich nicht aus

  • Trick: Klavier bei 70-80 Hertz cutten und durch einen Sinus Ton ersetzen = Trailer Sound

  • Beispiel: alles durch (virtuelle) amps gejagt

Score: The Podcast: Mark Mothersbaugh on the brilliance of Wes Anderson

http://pca.st/episode/b3694c38-0a8e-45b7-b8fb-9334a2785a7d (17.5.2018)

  • Wes Anderson: artist ... control over everything

  • Singt mit dem Chor, spielt Bässse ein

  • Let‘s them record 5 at a time vs. sound stage

  • Rule: No Brass

Pensado's Place - Video: Producer / Mixer Jean-Marie Horvat

http://pca.st/episode/5797a152-f464-4430-ac11-2866aa64a256 (16.5.2018)

  • 8 Kicks in a Track 

  • The kids are the A&R in the house

  • It’s easier to be complicated, it’s genius to be  simple

Score: The Podcast: Mark Mothersbaugh, Behind the Score & Name That Score

http://pca.st/episode/bb78b20a-5563-42d4-b665-9c2ad593027b (16.5.2018)

  • Temp Tracks

  • Favorite TV Themes

  • Batman Theme Song: Tommy Tedesco

  • Amazonas vs. Electronic music

  • Post Ironic

  • T-Shirt: I like writing themes

  • Temp Music: tend to be Klischees

  • Best temp = no temp

  • Kids have access to so much music = greatest time ... midi ist ein Vorteil 

  • Lego Movie, Meatballs & Co

  • Themed backwards

  • Kommunikation: „I hate that ...“ shaker out: „that’s perfect“ ... non musical terms

  • The better the film, the easier to score

Twenty Thousand Hertz: Ultrasonic Tracking

http://pca.st/episode/2202c364-dc9d-416b-838a-5abe960fc517 (16.5.2018)

  • Ultrasonic trackers & Beacons

  • True data over audio

  • human voices ... hacking cloud servers

  • Keine apps installieren, die auf Mikro &co zugreifen

Warrior Kid Podcast: 10: Warrior Kid Podcast. Ask Uncle Jake

http://pca.st/episode/c3f0fcdf-1856-4c92-ba48-e318e27935f8 (16.5.2018)

  • Warrior Kid ... be an example

  • Books: learn everywhere, by yourself

  • Ask questions, study hard, stay curious, read

  • Don’t feel like it? ... Go anyways

Freakonomics Radio: 5 Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusing

http://pca.st/episode/4fc51060-472b-43af-a00e-4b444922dad1 (16.5.2018)

  • Playing Mozart boosts intelligence (bullshit)

  • The cost of inaction ... being one of the 38

  • The more people are present at a emergency the less likelihood of help

  • Infuriating species ... bipolar ape

  • „Hardwired“

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast: Josh Brolin

http://pca.st/episode/79a1b616-d1a3-4d49-9a13-423e2682948b (15.5.2018)

  • I didn’t expect such a nice face

  • Punkrock: Germs, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys ...RKL (Rich Kids on LSD)

  • A 1000 orgasms ... nope

  • Laurence Soldani Jr

  • Nolte!

  • it’s way better to be ok in a great movie than be great in a shitty movie

  • Feeling for „good“ movies ... you never know (Sicario)

  • Mickey Rourke Instagram

  • Flirting with disaster

  • acting is feeling like an asshole 90% of the time 

  • Demo tape, Tarantino ... shot by Robert Rodriguez ... immediate NO

  • Let me have some impact on something ... Rage vs. satisfaction (gnarly)

The Tim Ferriss Show: Michael Pollan — Exploring The New Science of Psychedelics

http://pca.st/episode/db84641e-b857-421b-ab0a-5ef2ac63511d (14.5.2018)

  • Confronted fear (black box in the belly) = fear vanished

  • Psychedelic = mind manifesting (Aldous Huxleys buddy)

  • Stanislaus Grof: „Psychedelics are for the study of the mind what the telescope was for astronomy and the microscope was for biology“

  • Brain = hierarchical system

  • The brain is actually very active when doing nothing (time travel, imaging mental states, autobiographical self = narrative we have of who we are)

  • 10.000 hours of meditation = similar brain  

  • Personality changes ... radically new context ... psychedelic vs. intellectual experience 

  • Studies with rats: Heroin vs. LSD ... nur again

  • Risks? Addiction is not one of them

  • Symptom = panic attack ... „real trouble next door“

  • Alcohol is more toxic than LSD

  • ... more safe than horseback riding

  • “Depression is regret about the past, anxiety is regret about the future.“

  • “Default mode network“

  • monster: what are you doing in my head, what are you trying to teach me?

  • Mystical merging ... one with the music: Yo-Yo Ma, Cello, bow ...

  • Erkenntnis: you are part of a larger entity ... the mind of Yo-Yo Ma and Bach is accessible

  • LSD Smoothie vs. carelessness ... for the betterment of well people ... annually (guided) ritual

Andrew Scheps at the University of Oxford - "What Comes Out Of The Speakers" (11.5.2018)

https://youtu.be/HVCdrYbUVW8

Recording Studio Rockstars: RSR138 - Eric Taft - Producing Rad Pop, Getting Killer Sounds, And Growing Your Studio Business

http://pca.st/episode/31ee66f7-ecb3-4fe8-868a-d9340f0c05d7 (11.5.2018)

  • Reality Check: McDonalds

  • Mantra: „it’s all about the song“

  • Songs auszuarbeiten, bevor du ins Studio gehst

  • Hourly vs. Project rates

  • Flat Rate: recording from the rehearsal space = bestimmt die flatrate 

  • The Studio is no Place for Ego 

  • Send Bands Home, if they can’t play ... not ready!

  • Pro Tools Updates: 1 Woche 

  • Sessions at 96k ... klingt besser bei Gitarren Greg Anderton

  • Don’t line up things too much ... it disappears into each other (z.B.: snares nicht zum Song Stimmen)

  • Drum room mics in front of the kit ... walk around the room and put it, where it sounds good = wildcard

  • Put yourself out of the equation... let someone else place the mics 

  • SM57 tape op mod

  • CLA Bass & drums 

  • Headphones & Levels

  • Distressor on everything 

  • Grindcore Record ... live (SM7)

  • Remote drums

  • Biete Dinge an, die (nur) du machen kannst ... guter Drumroom, Gitarre spielen & Co = USP

  • “Recognize what you have (as a producer) that other people don’t and how you can highlight that in a way that makes you differente from other people in your field.“  = Businessfy

  • Monetize your services

  • http://erictaft.com/drumrecording

Twenty Thousand Hertz: ASMR

http://pca.st/episode/0576405c-0338-4ffa-ba6c-68801b8b9eba (9.5.2018)

  • Physical Reaction

  • ASMR Artists ... Advertising

  • BOB ROSS

Setlist: Spotify, Canada, Kanye

http://pca.st/episode/53d966ce-e9b7-491d-8c43-35207f0a3954 (9.5.2018)

  • DJ Monitor ... punktgenaues Tracking von Musikbibliothek Clubs

  • Public performance & royalties

  • Spotify AI Conference: Messaging App Marketing ... Machines writing and editing music (and videos) ... 

  • Production Music vs. Ai Music

  • Spotify: quarterly reports ... wird spannend!

  • Online piracy: web blocking

  • Billboards revamp ... stream vs. stream 

  • Keane West ... Album to sell? Controversy (loving Donald Trump)

  • Strange releases, strange interviews

99% Invisible: 306- Breaking Bad News

http://pca.st/episode/548925dc-11bb-4557-80c4-ce2685911ec5 (9.5.2018)

  • John Cleese ... on Safari ... cheese shop sketch

  • Doku: „Your own worst enemy“

  • „It Must Be aweful for you“

  • Sick patients can handle bad news

  • Books: „I don’t know what to say – how to help and support someone who is dying“ & „How to break bad news“

  • SPIKES: Setting, Perception, Invitation, Knowledge, Emotions, Strategy and Summary

  • Song at funeral: „What a day for a daydream“ ... thank you for coming

  • John Cleese: Videos for people with medical problems

  • Terry Jones ... Demenz

  • Videos: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/breaking-bad-news/

StarTalk Radio: Cosmic Queries – Climate Science, with Bill Nye

http://pca.st/episode/1c401853-af57-4c94-aa4a-60a4e1406237 (8.5.2018)

  • Computer models + observations

  • Clouds: warmer = Wasser verdampft = mehr Wolken = Sonnenlicht wird in das All reflektiert = Erde kühlt ab

  • clouds are „Double agents“

  • Doping the weather 

  • Climate Change = Durchschnittswärme, Häufigkeit von heftigen Events, Stärke von Hurrikans & Co

  • keine Technologie kann das Wetter kontrollieren/stoppen

  • Wow: hundred year floods ... 5 years ... 3 years ... 1 

  • Mars: extraordinary camping trip that’s not paradise

  • Plastic vs. oceans  

  • Nuclear Industry

  • Which Chuck from all the years is right?

  • We are running this Place  Humans will stick

  • Ozonloch ist kleiner geworden

  • Hammer: Erderwärmung ist über 100% vom Menschen gemacht ... sonst würde die Erde abkühlen

  • Can wie reset Earth? Don’t let’s try, to big of a problem

The Tim Ferriss Show: Nick Thompson -- Editor-In-Chief of WIRED

http://pca.st/episode/4ada3443-20d7-4d1c-b23e-410283183ea0 (7.5.2018)

  • Beatles as Street Music? People walk by ... important: demographics ... gute Zeit, guter Platz

  • Musician vs. Journalist

  • Getting kidnapped in Africa ... esssy for the Washington Post ... $60.- experience 

  • „Bad decisions make great stories“

  • The grat escape: ARGO

  • What makes a good pitch? (In journalism) http://pca.st/episode/4ada3443-20d7-4d1c-b23e-410283183ea0?t=1588.0

  • 1) Options ... 2) Why am I the person to do this 3) Understanding, what it’s for

  • TK: Gute Idee ... Wifi abschalten während des Arbeitens und „TK“ als Kürzel in den Text (lässt sich leicht finden)

  • Pitch: Under one page (Time). Constraints lead to better work (in general)

  • Add quality people at every step

  • IMDB Pro spuckt Kontaktdaten zu agents aus

  • New Yorker: several dollars a word = $ 15.000.- article ... Online Magazine: Decision ... Artikel online und offline gleich? + täglicher content CLUE: Artikel, die von den offline Journalisten geschrieben wurden, kamen am besten an

  • #1: per word pay: 50.000 Leute lesen den Artikel, adds $15.- per 1000 vsitors, 4 adds per person (1/4 benutzt add blocker = 3) ... math = $ 2000.- per article in revenue 

  • #2: Subscriptions generate more $$$

  • #3: Beteiligung

  • Tim: $2.- pro Wort für 3 article, die er in der Welt sehen möchte 

  • Tipp: konkrete Vorschläge liefern, wenn Korrekturen anstehen (Struktur, Inhalt, Fokus) ... bei manchen Schreibern kein Wort ändern 

  • Paralleles arbeiten in Google Docs (chasing)

  • Übungen: Artikel laut lesen !!

  • Map a Story: structure ... where is a Information introduced... where is a character introduced ... z.B.: 80 chronologisch, 20% semantic

  • Whiteboard: section A „the crime“, section B „the chase“

  • Buchtipps: „Draft number 4“ & „Levels Of the game“ & „The shape of the“ ...“ by John McPhee

  • Fake your own death (Story)+ WIRED Manhunt ... experiment for a month 

  • Experimental Magazine

  • Most given book: „Why Buddhism works“

  • Belief/Behavior: Kids (9, 7, 4) ... Responsibly, carrying on your personality after you gone, choices, help to thrive http://pca.st/episode/4ada3443-20d7-4d1c-b23e-410283183ea0?t=5425.0 

  • Alexandertechnik (Haltung)

  • Billboard: „When you look at everything that goes wrong historically, you can see a peak chain of continuous mistakes that lead up to it“ ... discouraging? It’s aboutbthe chain!

Working Class Audio: WCA #175 with Adam Muñoz

http://pca.st/episode/3bb9a8d9-3a5d-4e67-8417-f5c25e3d4b91 (7.5.2018)

  • Recording school? In 5 years „you can study this?“ to „you didn’t study?“

  • studio prisoner: 2 24 hours back two back

  • studio leadership: clients first, make feel them special ... maintenance, maintenance, maintenance

  • Free time = engeneering practice time = win*win

  • Clients are reading too many articles

  • 8 Hours vs. 100+ Tracks

The James Altucher Show: 350 - Mark Manson: The Origin of Hope (vs. Hopelessness)

http://pca.st/episode/b59fc05f-862c-4f09-91e1-43b8f5f0191d (6.5.2018)

  • The subtle art of not giving a fuck

  • Fuck in the title? No Tv!

  • Everybody seems to feel like the world is ending when objectively things are pretty ok

  • Attention diets ... das wird uns die nächsten 5 Jahre beschäftigen

  • Paradox of Choice: the more choice we have the less we value each decision ... it might be the same with information

  • Now: quality over quantity wins the game

  • Article: „6 things people should less fucks about“: https://markmanson.net/6-things-people-should-stop-giving-so-many-fucks-about

The Tim Ferriss Show: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur

http://pca.st/episode/8b599671-fdd7-44c0-bec6-19e629ca9bd4 (6.5.2018)

  • Evan: wearing shorts, stands up while discussing ... “sitting is the new smoking“

  • Robert Rodriguez: Play Music, learning to paint

  • First Movie: River Runs Through ... Robert Redford: I never hit my marks

  • Watching Steven Spielberg set up a shot is pretty special 

  • HBO: Spielberg

  • Story: JAWS „Fin“ ... der Hai hat nicht funktioniert ... Regisseure, die in diesen Situationen gute Entscheidungen machen, sind die besten ... Again genius: Barrels

  • Editing: HUGE part

  • French

  • Don Jon (Film?)

  • Objectified

  • Being famous as a goal: doesn’t make happy ... moving because of crazy people showing up

  • Instagram: everybody is their own paparazzi ... intrinsic/extrinsic 

  • Performance in a song/movie: performing for fame ... you can feel it

  • Third Rock From The Sun ... Warren Calling during career brake

  • Buchtipp: Letters to a young poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)

  • Busy 2012

  • “Hit Record“ ... Mantra ... gemeinsames arbeiten an Projekten

  • Tim Ferris Podcast: 6 Episodes ... no €€€ planned

  • There is no substitute for things YOU wanna do way down there

  • Bad Filter: what is the trend! What kind of movie should I make? ... Empfehlung: arbeite 1 Jahr in startups ... don’t start your own thing, help out!

  • If you wanna learn how to do X, do X ... at low risk.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: David Spergel

http://pca.st/episode/f744df31-3c46-482c-afd6-a595b4f6d7db (6.5.2018)

Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Podcast: Episode #210 – SoundCloud Losses, AI Songwriting, And Producer David Campos

http://pca.st/episode/f3bc52bd-9dde-441f-acbb-7133f92707d3 (6.5.2018)

  • SoundCloud alternatives

  • AI vs. Songwriting ... das hat Bowie schon gemacht (Verbiziser) ... UND: 

  • pitching

StarTalk Radio: Into the Wild, with Jane Goodall

http://pca.st/episode/81ccc602-258c-407b-9b9c-824130a364a5 (6.5.2018)

  • Neil deGrass Tyson – your personal astrophysicist

  • Where does the egg come out?

  • Parents: The 1st year they teach you how to talk and and to walk, the rest of the life they Tell you to shut up and sit down

  • Dark side of shimps ... ganging up against alpha

  • Animals learn by watching. Speech: translates

  • speaking shimpansee

  • Smile? Afraid! Space monkey  

  • Alien Species: Jane anrufen „We are not intelligent at all. Maybe intellectual, but not wise.“

  • 1% difference: human vs. chimp ... alien vs. human

No Guitar Is Safe: Episode 71 - Zakk Wylde

http://pca.st/episode/e397e340-f5c9-4339-ade7-301d9d9820b0 (6.5.2018)

  • Ozzy: The Boss

  • Exploding beer cans

  • 95% Randy

  • Minor 3rd vibrato

  • Morning routine: Practicing without amp

  • MXR Signature pedals

  • Jazz Chorus: completely dry on one side

  • Solo: straight up, legs spread

  • Clean Intro (ROCKODIL?) + Riff http://pca.st/episode/e397e340-f5c9-4339-ade7-301d9d9820b0?t=1456.0

  • Vertigo Bullets

  • Cream is in the name ... Clapton women tone ... neck pup

  • Izzy is in good shape

  • Kids names ... quiet side of Zakk

  • Jimmy Page = Popeage

Snap Judgment: Snap Classic - Where No One Should Go

http://pca.st/episode/ecc0b447-19db-4af0-9a05-3c2387c1a8d2?t=21.0 (6.5.2018)

  • Every 33 foot you go down it doubles the risk

  • Bubbles in blood ... helium bubble in the ear Passing Out ... vomiting under water

  • Closure: Dave is dead

Recording Studio Rockstars: RSR139 - Andrew Scheps - Mixing Hit Records With A Laptop And Headphones (In The Box)

http://pca.st/episode/59a51049-e3af-4241-ae78-ef59aa8cfb1e (6.5.2018)

  • http://mcdman.com/scheps 

  • Keyboard Tech for Stevie Wonder, Live Sound for MJ

  • Teaching makes you think about what you are doing 

  • Learning by doing

  • Doing Sonething cool with rock bands w/o playing

  • Knowing gear, that no one has heard of

  • Oxford lecture: https://youtu.be/HVCdrYbUVW8

  • There is no right way to engineer ... textbook says NO ... great albums

  • Parallel particles (Waves): https://youtu.be/Mo7d1D7tMOg

  • Schooling: put yourself in a place where everything is tryinng to learn the same things = amazing

  • Get passed the technical parts ... inspiration kann woanders her kommen = creativity is creativity

  • Bruce Swedien & Al Schmidt vs. Tchad Blake ... Tchad: same Plugins at Home? Sounds like crap

  • Einsicht: rely on the tools vs. the sounds comes from you

  • Filmtipp: Thor ... loosing the hammer = loosing the powe? Nope A hammer does help ... tools change, philosophy doesn’t

  • Tweaking: Kick (ridiculous), snare (holy shit), toms (thunder) overheads (superclear) ... alles zusammen? May or may not go together

  • Don’t react to individual things ... listen to the song ... ZOOM OUT, VISION FIRST

  • Soloing = maintenance

  • Waves plugins: Sheps 73, Parallel Particles (4 parallel processes, pain in the ass) Omni Channel ... DeEssing in the beginning of the chain ... DeEss twice: front AND back

  • Idiot: tweaking knobs in bypass

  • Snare Sound on „Cochise“ (Audio Slave) https://open.spotify.com/track/4OCzAGgyWsUKpdWufYywZm?si=u6G44w0vQEKtdJrVRrgUaA

  • 200 reels of analogue tapes ... It’s the space around the snare ... parallel Distortion = feels dry ... close mice are important, character comes from the other mics ... Tipp: SM57 (talk back) pointing at the side of the drummers head > 1176 > smash it = vibe

  • Taping mics to the musicians head ... that is, where the music comes from

  • “It has to be wrong to sound right“ (fake vocal scratch mics)

  • Black Sabath „13“: 3D Bass https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZDRzrXIW3EdC5FR0HGi3v?si=88IuAHh2RnuF-BLO7g1lYw ... Source: Geezer > great bass > great rig ... „If you want the bass to rule, let it rule (first) and see what else fits“

  • „The less specific and technical your ideas are, the more you can apply just anything“

  • The chorus needs to open up ... don’t make the verse boring ... z.B.: add parallel compression in the chorus (99 problems) https://open.spotify.com/track/0PSXPjIGscYv1mlPDxCOzy?si=d0jhz2kPT06fqf2ypFjexA

  • ITB: perspective by working on a song for 20 minutes and closing it

  • Weezer: Red album ... fun stories

  • Kaleo – Way Down We Go ... Stereo snare https://open.spotify.com/track/0y1QJc3SJVPKJ1OvFmFqe6?si=eBrNOL66SXy2AQ5MuuSzLQ

  • Stereo snare? Mic the bottom stereo! Snare = reverb (resonate). Top = impact, bottom = „I have length“

  • Acoustic Guitars: 2 roles: tonal, rhythmic ... decide, what’s it doing! Wich is more important? Sound might Chance depending on the role

  • A great arrangement gets you closer to balance

  • Adele 21: Spacy vocals, powerful band (dry) ... tracking Greg Fidelman ... shared parallel compression

  • There is no „how you suppose to do it“ ... none of that matters

  • Before you send it: keine Sachen schreiben, die noch nicht fertig sind ... fix them! Wenn die E-Mail sagt „the nix is up“, dann ist der mix fertig

  • „The Duke Spirit“ ... great live band ... great recording session

  • producing = being part of the band (for a while)

  • Awesome: Prep and Preproduction in the rehearsal room

  • Monno Valley (where bohemian rhapsody was written) ... built for the NEVE

  • Sheps: all his stuff is there (gear, Rhodes, pedals, Wurli, Mics)

  • HEADPHONES: Sony MDR7506

  • Don’t crank them too much

  • Dave Pensado: mixing no on earbuds

  • Listening to music vs. working (own speaker and headphones)

  • BE CREATIVE, NOT TECHNICAL

  • Recalls

  • Lunch with Tschad Blake: mixing in the box ... clue: he is doing it (If he can do it, I can(t) do it)

  • Business Tipp: Be good in invoicing ♥️ 

  • Make it as easy as possible for somebody to pay you (Quibooks)

  • Tipp to start: Get your monitoring right (Reference)

  • Shep: iMac Pro ... UAD Twin

  • Converter: Audioquest Dragonfly

  • Don’t use the headphone out of your MacBook  

  • Studio: view and daylight

  • Catchphrase: nothing matters except what comes out of the speakers  

Sound Opinions: #649 Slayer, Opinions on Janelle Monáe & Liz Phair

http://pca.st/episode/ce46db79-5d48-4660-b52a-be8e60e3ffb4 (4.5.2018)

  • Dirty Computer (Feat. Zoë Kravitz) 

  • Liz Phair ... Put stuff from your diary in your songs, it’s allowed 

  • Slayer ...constant trash metal 

  • 2010 interview: Kerry King, Dave Lombardo

  • Punk Rock fueled Metal (Riffs)

  • Double Bassdrum Innovation

  • Lyrics ... being publicly demonized ... „don’t blame me for something you can’t control“

  • Rick Rubin: Rain in blood

  • Biggest difference: budget

  • Rick: No Reverb!

  • No Pro Tools ... it’s so easy

  • Metallica: Lange tracks Slayer: Gegenteil ... Master of puppets = most favorite album

  • All we are is shock

  • Sence of Community (concerts)

  • Scalpel: 

Komponist? "Kann man davon leben?": Form & Patterns

http://pca.st/episode/4420982c-b4d1-447a-b007-a984afaa06f8 (4.5.2018)

  • Rule of 3: Pattern in der 3. Wiederholung wird fad

  • Copy & Paste ist dein Freund ... Variation reinbringen durch: Transposition, Arrangement ändern, Instrumente ergänzen/entfernen = Copy & Paste „kaschieren“

  • Again: Gathering Material + Sketch ... große „Probleme“ in kleiner teilen

  • Beispiel aus der Intervall-Theorie: Piano Sketch + fertige Version

  • Sketch = Navi ... Vertikale Noten horizontal auflösen

  • Tipp: Am Sketch nicht länger als 20 Minuten arbeiten

  • Cinematic Studio Strings

Criminal: Episode 90: Sharks

http://pca.st/episode/7fddb7b8-3e83-4fa3-a01f-9e4c32476ba0 (4.5.2018)

  • Fish Attack (?)

  • shark behavior vs. human behavior

99% Invisible: 305- The Laff Boxhttp://pca.st/episode/bedaf50c-7c47-4b15-81d4-d535bd9a4edc (4.5.2016)

  • LAFF-Box (Steam Punk Typewriter) Tape Loops

  • Audience Responce Duplicater

  • Laugh tracks are art

  • OKEH: lachende Frauen und Männer lachen wegen „cornet“ (Spike Jones lässt grüßen) http://pca.st/episode/bedaf50c-7c47-4b15-81d4-d535bd9a4edc?t=806.0

  • Friends without laughter ... nicht lustig ohne Lacher

  • Show taped in front of audience vs. canned laughter

Komponist? "Kann man davon leben?" (Frank Herrlinger): Lass die Kreativität fließen

http://pca.st/episode/d6534def-ca8c-4c24-b995-7d1433b648c8 (3.5.2018)

  • 1. Gathering Materials: Ideen sammeln (Rhythmen, Melodien, Fragmente) 2. Sketch: Richtung vorgeben ... Falle: Musikalische Idee vs. Ausarbeitung

  • Phänomen free jazz: zu viel los, zu wenig Struktur ... Hirn schaltet aus

  • Kontraste erzeugen: Instrumente, Lautstärke, Rhythmus, Stimmenanzahl, Register

  • John Williams: funktioniert auch als Konzertmusik

  • 3. Development: Sketch ausarbeiten ... Ideen aus dem Sketch auch motivisch verwenden

  • Kreativität ist extern (Behauptung). Wie wird man zum Empfänger? Umkehrung, Krebs & Co ... kann inspirieren ... positive Rückkopplung, nicht warten

  • Kunde vs. Entscheidungen: Nix persönlich nehmen

  • Umgang mit Kritik = Professionalisierung

  • Zurück zum Start = genau hinhören, was der Kunde möchte

  • https://musicintervaltheory.academy Fragen erwünscht

Warrior Kid Podcast: 9: Warrior Kid Podcast. Ask Uncle Jake.

http://pca.st/episode/05130a2d-645f-4d1f-8ba9-bafbfa1aba9a (3.5.2018)

  • Sad about a dead dog? Be sad. Write a letter to your dog. Move on. Stay sad.

  • Practice, practice, practice. Tired? Practice some more.

  • giw to get good in pull ups? Do pull ups!

  • Strong vs. weak food: Processing?

  • Put the team first!

Radiolab: Finding Yourself

http://pca.st/episode/5961dd56-8f29-45d2-9157-a1d2ef13b1ef (3.5.2018)

  • #1

  • Parents as moral compass

  •  9 siblings without record ... no numbers attached

  • YT: Millions of views https://youtu.be/CPtpKNyaO0U

  • #2

  • Secret recordings ... everything recorded

The James Altucher Show: 348 - Jocko Willink: How Having a Code to Live By Will Give You Strength

http://pca.st/episode/058f793b-e69e-455a-84c1-70941fbc9359 (2.5.2018)

  • Veteran suicide: 22 a day

  • Routinen: stehe jeden Tag zur gleichen Zeit auf ... Jocko: 5:30 Stunden Schlaf  

  • Learning is earning

  • Religion = Code ... Write your own!

  • Altucher: Audience Of 12 years old

  • guiding vs. forcing: „Code“ kann auch provoziert werden ... nicht einfach bestimmen, was jemand tun soll

  • Gute Idee zum Buchtitel testen: 2 Titel auf FB bewerben ... schauen, was besser ankommt (Klickzahlen)

  • consistency + improvements ... 1x gym bringt nix

  • Luck (in Chess): „Only the good players are lucky“

Recording Studio Rockstars: RSR137 - Shawn Everett - Grammy winning engineer and mixer for The War On Drugs, Alabama Shakes, Weezer, Margaret Glaspy, Pete Yorn, Warpaint, John Legend, & The Killers

http://pca.st/episode/1f25d481-3da5-4e2d-ad63-859839bdf68a (1.5.2018)

  • Experimental: Freezing Canada ... nothing else to do

  • Bowling DJ

  • Art Installations vs. classical music ... grain silo 

  • Gute Idee: Echo Chambers bei Nacht für die Allgemeinheit freigeben (Audiofiles schicken)

  • Eric Valentine: amazing guy ... assistant runner

  • Resumee CD with announcement

  • Harmony Korine: extreme? Double down ... extra, extra, extra

  • Filmtipp: Gummo

  • Möchtest du wissen, wie jemand arbeitet, schau ihm beim kochen/essen zu ... Shawn: Hot Sauce ob everything

  • Keep constantly printing

  • Geil: kaputte drums nach 35 Versionen? Re-Import drum mix from take 1)

  • Recording to a tape Loop (2018)

  • Pro Tools als Instrument vs. Computer nie einschalten

  • War On Drugs: great drum sounds

  • Rules/Obstacles: no cymbals on „One“ ... 3. Peter Gabriel Album: keine crashes

  • Brian Eno: oblique strategy cards ... eine Karte pro Song pro Tag http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

  • Example: „go outside and close the door“ ... was heißt das? Mikros vor die Türe? Studio verlassen?

  • One Hour per idea: double time and octave up ... Jaguar samples ... Binaural head in the room ... am Ende des Tages: alle Versionen gleichzeitig

  • Manchmal: komplette Versionen eines Teiles gesamt importiert

  • RAINBOW OF FREQUENCIES  

  • Britney (Alabama Shakes) ... John Legend: 50 notches vs. Neve > 1176 (Elmhirst) ... UAD ist ok

  • Herausforderung: guitar + vocals ... most recorded music ... Bob Dylan: one mic  

  • SM57 on acoustic ... 2 figure 8: one rejecting vocals, one rejecting guitar

  • Auch ok: Contact Mics  

  • Contact mics (Piezo) on snare

  • real synths vs. real world synths

  • Mixing can be plying with the master bus

  • Monitors: NS-10s + Sub

  • Ren Klyce: Master of Space ... Audio commentary on Se7en

  • If this was a movie, where room is this song in?

  • Binaural mics on everything

  • Refreshing ears by listen to other songs

  • Vocal Tuning = Voll OK

  • Grösstes Problem: „Does this sound like a professional Record?“

  • Unlearn!

  • See if there is a way that you could make a Rockband sound like ONE instrument

  • Studio vs. Music Business ... obsession required

  • Advice: „Cascades“ (Oblique Strategies)

  • Worst dressed in 2017

  • HOT SAUCE ON EVERYTHING


Freakonomics Radio: The Most Ambitious Thing Humans Have Ever Attempted

http://pca.st/episode/37a16e03-6b4c-4b6c-b841-dec62465542d (1.5.2018)

  • Grundhaltung: 25% scheduled, rest: Get enough sleep

  • Checklist Manifesto (Atul Gawande)

  • Medical System vs. Cheesecake Factory

  • Anästhesie: innerhalb weniger Monate überall adaptiert ... Hygiene vor der OP? Nur 20% haben’s gemacht ... Viagra: 3x mehr Patienten in kurzer Zeit. Warum? Immediate effect

  • (Artikel) ... Modeling: schau was andere gut machen und kopiere es überall hin

  • Level of complexity: 13 organ systems : 60.000 diagnosis (ways the body can fail), 6.000 drugs, 4.000 medical and surgical and procedures

  • 1990: average life span was 47 years! Now: 80