September 2019

Gastropod: Espresso and Whisky: The Place of Time in Food

https://pca.st/episode/88e8d137-147f-485d-8ea2-cb2e5ea2dc0a (30.9.2019)

  • https://gastropod.com/espresso-and-whisky-the-place-of-time-in-food/

  • Don’t eat cheese directly from the fridge ... de-chilling

  • Buchtipp: Dink Beer, Think Beer ... seconds and minutes

  • Time is an ingredient

  • Express Coffe

  • 1938

  • Coffin coffee

  • Wasabi ... ist eigentlich kein 

  • Time machine whiskey ... 20 Jahre vs. 6 Tage

  • Pressure, Teebag Wood

  • Extremely strong sunlight

  • Time machine advantage

  • You don’t have to build a barrel

  • Manipulating time to explore flavor

Frag den Lesch: Reise zu den Sternen (?)

https://pca.st/episode/820e27ce-ff5c-44df-aead-b7983bf2d99e (30.9.2019)

  • Quasi = quasi ein Stern

  • Dopplereffekt im roten Bereich

  • 1 Billion Sonnenleuchtkräfte

  • Elektronen + Protonen = Neutronen

  • Rotierende Sternleiche

  • Wir sind gespeichertes Sonnenlicht , wir bestehen zu 92% Sternenstaub

  • Auseinandersetzung ist ein höchst interessantes Selbstgespräche des Universums mit sich lebst

Frag den Lesch: Klimaerwärmung: Sind zwei Grad wirklich zu viel?

https://pca.st/episode/be8dbabc-3759-4bc0-a87c-78a3b237bd3f (30.9.2019)

  • Wissenschaft, die wissen schafft

  • Politik = Polis = Stadt ... es soll etwas entschieden/gehandelt werden können

  • Eine Entscheidung ist immer ein Verzicht

  • Die Wissenschaft produziert Messwerte

  • 2 Grad = Zustand höherer Energie

  • Klima = gemitteltes Wetter über 30 Jahre

  • Wenn der Permafrost taut, riecht‘s ... Methan (Treibhausgas)

  • Wann kippt das Meer?

  • Katastrophen-Check

  • Lokale unsnarl zeitliche Ethik (19. Jhdt)

  • Wasser braucht mehr Platz ... Ausdehnung

  • Da werden wir sehr betroffen sein ... viele urbane Siedlungsräume werden wegbrechen

  • Forderung der Philosophie: Wissen und Handeln zusammenführen

The Open Ears Project: On Resolution

https://pca.st/episode/597bcc07-9586-41a8-8cb7-3d09ecb10bd1 (30.9.2019)

  • Walking through emotions (Bach)

  • Clashing chords

  • Dissonance as emotional twists

Switched on Pop: Jazz 1959

https://pca.st/episode/cab06b8d-c7e7-4be6-907c-fae2f3a67c76 (29.92019)

  • https://the1959project.com

  • EVERY day of 1959 in the jazz world

  • „A Kind Of Blue“ ... still sells 5000 albums a week

  • Singing „So What“ ... trumpet solo

  • „Take 5“

  • Radical: So What (Modale Musik), Take 5 (Odd Meter)

  • Lester Young inspired „Good Buy Pork Pie Hat“

  • The women jazz musicians ... this History hasn’t written

  • Herbie Hancock Masterclass

  • Jazz + internet = younger audience

  • Popular Jazz – The mighty boosh „most important artform“ ... you fear Jazz

  • Genre means less to musicians than it does to listeners

  • Jazz is NOT scary

  • Jazz vs. R&B

StarTalk Radio: Cosmic Queries – The Deep

https://pca.st/episode/b7cb40df-460e-40a7-ab62-f132738d7460 (29.9.2019)

  • Nothing says fandom like a check

  • Can the human brain figure out the human mind?

  • Humans are the universes way to understand itself

  •  Chimpanzee Starbucks

  • 1%: cute little humans with a telescope vs. Pulling termites with a stick

  • 1% beyond us

  • Alien Pre-School

  • We don’t the question to get an answer

  • „Act of God“

  • The senses give you a restricted understanding of the universe

  • The first person that will never die is now alive

  • Instilling eternal curiosity vs. Schools out mentality

  • That’s almost nothing nothing

Radiolab: Silky Love

https://pca.st/episode/4de0fe1c-2332-40e9-a099-2572d8eb1c10 (29.9.2019)

  • Everything eater

  • 1000 eels in a tank ... 71 left after a year ... 1 female left 3 months later

  • Genital jigsaw

  • Freud ... eels hunter

  • Love and wisdom

  • Sexless at the end

  • Bermuda Mystery

  • South 🧭 

Criminal: Episode 123: Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

https://pca.st/episode/1a96f0b7-425a-4ab8-a25c-1979a9901a45 (28.9.2019)

  • 1917

  • „Pretty girl skater strangely missing“

  • Charlie Chaplin: Easy Street

  • Self defense vs. Bad translator 

Pensado's Place - Audio: Producer / Mixer / Engineer, Joe Barresi (Tool, Slipknot, Alice in Chains) PART 1

https://pca.st/episode/d154e596-834d-490d-92d8-472b9c5ea61b (28.9.2019)

  • Autotune is a Verb Now

  • „Innovation First“

  • Evil Joe + Story

  • Balance is the basis of mixing (CLA)

  • Level, Phase and Panning

  • Phase flip: hissing amp ... to the quietest point

  • Tool: Roto Toms to the set ... Bill Bruford & Co

  • You can make anything sound good

  • 100R/100L vs. 98R/94L ... Eq differently ... emulate 

  • Mistake: (Don’t) try to make any individual sound great

  • The part tells how it should sound

  • (I) never compress guitars

  • Queen: drum itself, head, space in the Room, Mic

  • If the dog gets up it might get a hit

  • https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/adptr_metricab.html

  • Band by Band, Song by Song

  • Bass: Mono > Stereo ...Guitars: Stereo > Mono

Simply Recording Podcast with Joe Gilder and Graham Cochrane: Episode #56 – Chris Cornell and the Danger of the Success Myth

https://pca.st/episode/d9164c70-2a02-0135-52f9-452518e2d253 (28.9.2019)

  • 4 EPs in a year

  • Career ... putting your „stock“ into it ... what If we are successful?

  • Front end communication

  •  Chris Cornell: je changed the sound of music, sold millions of records .. audio slave ... solo ... and than je killed himself! Do you want that?

  • Madonna: that „High“ wears off

  • Success goals ... miss life until you get there

  • The point of life is not to achieve stuff

  • Higher Intention: „Think of something you want?“ ... people clap for you vs. Connection (Werte!)

  • Process goals: release music every year ... specifics can change

  • FUN als Ziel vs. Konkrete Zielchen

  • Create processes that feel like a win right now ... wake up and enjoy your life 

Switched on Pop: BONUS: Charli XCX and The Future of Music (with Dani Deahl)

https://pca.st/episode/7b5c28c5-c0d8-481a-a782-053210ce10e4 (27.9.2019)

  • Singles!

  • Streaming breaks gatekeeping (Freedom)

  • New set of gatekeepers (Playlists & Co)

  • Social media: becoming close with a artist personality

  • ... flute came cool again 😃

  • Be part of the conversation (don’t hide)

  • Charli XCX (MSN Messenger Screenname) ... discovered on MySpace with 13!

  • Kiss Charlie Kiss = XCX

  • Dropping stuff without buildup

  • Attention economy

  • Again: Pop overture ... should grab you

  • Chorus ... without blowing the energy

  • Tricks: Chorus within 30 seconds, no intros, hook at the top, second verse 1/2.

  • „Hooked attention“

  •  Waterfall strategy: single, single, single = EP (re-packaged)+ some new singles

  • Sorry, you are Late, Executives 😜 

  • 90s: Holding songs back from single releases so pople had to buy the full album

  • Single-Evolution: Only a few songs on a single ... iTunes shook the system (Single vs. Album)

  • AC/DC: „We are not a Singles Band“ vs. Singles listeners

  • Breakthrough moments

  • Star w/o Mass appeal

Gastropod: The Incredible Egg

https://pca.st/episode/f13831ad-d9dd-4c60-a375-25d5a7875efe (27.9.2019)

  • Eggs came first

  • Dinosauriers layed eggs

  • Safety Layer ... Breathable Goretex

  • Eier NICHT waschen ... Kühlschrank? Nein, wenn sie ungewaschen sind!

  • Egg Shape: Form so, dass das Ei nicht wegrollen kann 💡

  • „Eggstractor“

  • Birds see 100* more colors than humans

  • Strong Eggs: auf einem Straußenei kann Mann stehen ... Küken müssen natürlich aus raus können 😃

  • Ancient Rome: eggs as snack at sports games

  • Chicken eggs took over as the egg of choice

  • Artificial light for more „productivity“ (1895)

  • Chicken sausages: Brain + Eggs + Herbs

  • Chinese Century egg

  • Cook them, hit them, mix them

  • Eier als „Kleber“ ... oil & vinegar

  • Seabird eggs ... the doesn’t get white

  • Order of laid eggs: later = more Testosterone (Bird Lifestyle)

  • 50 eggs in one hour

Twenty Thousand Hertz: You've Got Mail!

https://pca.st/episode/9153e487-f52f-479d-9635-2830cf6974f2 (27.8.2019)

  • Gastropod

  • 1.

  • You’ve got mail ... voice

  • $200 ... famous Elwood Edwards

  • 2. 

  • Melodic Robot 🤖 

  • I’m out there doing a Milli Vanilli

  • Don’t be shy ... send articles & Co

  • hi@20k.com 

SoundWorks Collection: The Sound of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

https://pca.st/episode/56bdba86-ee46-4a7d-9baa-06c5b9499aea (27.8.2019)

  • Chasing the project for 10 years

  • Puppetry and sets

  • Foley for puppets

  • Rewriting lines for ADR

  • Lord of the strings

  • Ben Burtts Original Sound ... 6 tracks

  • 10.000 ADR lines, 16.000 Foley takes, 700 tracks of audio per episode ... the sheer logistics

  • Foley: watching the whole episode + dry run

  • Cloth Library per character

  • Pitch and Formant shift

  • Celebrity voices

  • Time compression and extension as a friend

  • Sigourney Weaver @ NYC

  • Keep it in line with what Henson had done

  • Logistics: Spreadsheets, Playbacks for Netflix and Henson’s ... Mixing in a living room studio

  • Atmos vs. Stereo ... Going for the best quality

  • Stereo falldown

  • 5.1 Soundbars

  • Netflix = Streaming in Atmos ... luxury

  • Decompress ... it was so hard

Big Questions with Cal Fussman: Double Your Productivity With Tim Campos

https://pca.st/episode/88501813-d31b-4058-a972-10ef6720d793 (26.9.2019)

  • Everything you ever wanted is on the other side of fear

  • Map out all your goals

  • The calendar is our system

  • Woven ... smart templates

  • 1. how do I spend my time? 2. scheduling (link)

  • Content + purposeful + time

  • Markteinführung: Kostenlose App + Mini-Survey + Feedback ... paying customers erst später ... early adopters werden später bevorzugt behandelt.

  • „Twitter is your cryptonite“

ID10T with Chris Hardwick: Sean Penn

https://pca.st/episode/c9a9fe00-726d-4667-b189-174ce96c5d19 (26.9.2019)

  • Creativity vs. Marketing it

  • Explaining creativity

  • 2nd book because of critics of the 1st one

  • More is betters vs. Living in a trailer

  • Recognize your limitations ... social comfort zone

  • „I’m friends with porn now“

  • Nick Nolte ... career with 39 („Rich Man Poor Man“ ... as a Teenager)

  • 24 hour everything machine

  • Reviewing Sean Penn, not the book

  • Hollywood: What we do has the possibility of being big medicine (with stories that we tell)

  • First rule of Italian driving ... doesn’t matter

  • https://www.totousa.com/products/neorest 🚽 

Pensado's Place - Audio: Grammy Winning Mix Engineer, Alex Tumay (Young Thug, 21 Savage, Travis Scott)

https://pca.st/episode/b4eb1103-acee-4922-9d27-daac6fcf6c7f (25.9.2019)

  • 808 with room ... gamestaging: Kick+Snare+Vocals

  • Don’t upgrade/invest until someone buys your music

  • NS10s are good

  • “I got sick of rainbows”

Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Podcast: Episode #284: CDs Making A Comeback, Cheap USB Hubs, And Engineer Craig Burbidge

https://pca.st/episode/caa705ff-8bcc-4006-a2d3-7f071ea7210b (25.9.2019)

  • CDs Comeback ... Taylor Swift vs. Tool

  • BAD USB Hubs ... powered 👍

  • You learn most from musician

  • Job description: Whatever console you’re on, make it sound better than everyone else  made that console sound (Tascam vs. SSL)

  • You’re mixing from the kickdrum on (bottom up)

  • L.A. earthquake > NYC Boom

  • Chinese market: 3.000.000.000

  • Source Connect for sessions

  • Streaming as a demand for live performance

  • Dave Pensado: The war between analogue and digital has been fought

  • Don’t get lost in Pluginsm

Freakonomics Radio: How to Make Meetings Less Terrible

https://pca.st/episode/3cec822a-8af7-46ff-bb03-4947addaa832 (25.9.2019)

  • The surprising science of meetings

  • Source of frustration

  • Meetings ARE the company

  • Set of goals

  • Parkinson’s Law: die Arbeit dauert so lang, wie du ihr zeit gibst

  • Use tight schedules ... pressure is good

  • Agenda vs. Questions

  • Don’t make exclusion not personal, make it purposefull

  • Invent healthy conflict

  • „Play“ out the conflict ... architect cage match ... interupt the script

  • (Helpful) Trouble makers vs. Smoother over

  • „No meeting day“

  • Rating quality of meetings raises the quality

  • Last Call: How to end a meeting

The Open Ears Project: On American Beauty

https://pca.st/episode/bc701543-e0bd-4507-a8f9-727120f37ef4 (24.9.2019)

  • First Film ... American Beauty

  • Carl Orff ... Gassenhauer = klingt wie True Romance 💡💡💡

  • American theme + writer + European director ... cultural perspectives

  • Singles

No Guitar Is Safe: Fredrik Halland

https://pca.st/episode/64a0f21e-e7c9-457e-b955-58e437d5c894 (24.9.2019)

  • Slash’s smoke

  • Norway

  • Texas flood with 12: https://youtu.be/e_MLTZQV7ZQ

  • Bieber: 10 minutes ... 5 passes

  • „Mar my words“ – Top Melody

  • Blind Audition

  • Millennials

  • Giant Steps @ Sound Check

  • Hard licks in simple songs

Setlist: Deezer, consent decrees, YouTube

https://pca.st/episode/a40d3d0d-d900-4e88-a76d-8e2110d5b14f (23.9.2019)

  • User centric payment

  • Consumption share (service, labels, Songwriters, publishers)

  • Country by country 

Snap Judgment: I Sing the Body Electric

https://pca.st/episode/b24f9c08-dffe-412e-a0d2-7eae1d5226e4 (21.8.2019)

The Mastering Show: The Mastering Show #65 - Making money from mastering

https://pca.st/episode/233e455b-8731-4399-b042-f6e6dcd4766f (20.8.2019)

  • Graham Cochrane

  • Recording Revolution ... Monetizing

  • Mastering for free to build a portfolio

  • A/B improvement

  • Get payed your hourly rate at a „normal“ job ... and more than that

  • Mastering = leg up

  • Charge by the project ... give discount on albums ... give value (back)

  • Don’t undercharge

  • 1 vs. 5 songs ... Same effort

  • (Don’t) be different

  • „I am their trusted advisor“

  • 80/20 ... Apple, Youtubers, Activities ... Focus on the 20!

  • Tim Ferris: 2 hours a day ... where is the profit? 2 Hours a day

  • Analyse the small things (E-Mails & Co)

  • Double your rates and loose half of your clients

  • Front load your week (important things first) ... [geht wegen mica schwer]

  • Don’t start your day with E-Mail

  • Friday: Chaos Time ... for random/free/fun stuff (last week of the month ... chaos week) – super Idee 💡 

  • Be authentic

  • You couldn’t just take an entire track and slam it through a limiter (Skrillex)

The Mastering Show: The Mastering Show #66 - Good Questions

https://pca.st/episode/730a916f-14fd-45c3-a8da-f0b5f5e7614f (20.9.2019)

  • How dynamic is too dynamic? ... 4dB between sections (pre compression/limiting)


SoundWorks Collection: Russell Emanuel - Extreme Music & Bleeding Fingers Music

https://pca.st/episode/58ff9bf9-3a2d-4f35-b4d1-f1a7b87f6831 (19.9.2019)

  • Poor Production Music

  • Titles: “In the Moog” ... “Star Spangled Banners”

  • Hans Zimmer: Punk Rocker at heart ♥️ 

  • The politics of a production

  • The power of collaboration ... no writers block

  • 51 studios

  • 2 minutes a day ... Lorne Balfe = Machine

  • Great composer ... very good in this area – Yes!

  • 1-2 tracks (demo)

  • Twist the box 📦 

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin: Don't be evil

https://pca.st/episode/8eef8843-e625-4d16-afee-88fed62579e3 (19.9.2019)

  • Google clicks

  • Stock options: 100.000 ... $1 = das doppelte, $100 = das hundertfache

  • “Don’t be evil”

  • SEO vs. Google ... We trust google: 2-3 is good enough

  • E-Mail = Open API ... Spam

  • Questions: next game changer

  • Give students interesting problems to solve, not better grades

Revisionist History: Malcolm Gladwell on Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations

https://pca.st/episode/62c19d5f-fd53-4f25-a2d0-c4128a48bf96 (18.9.2019)

  • Gladwellian area

  • Talking to strangers

  • Police shootings ... versions of the same problem

  • Watching FRIENDS with the sound turned off ... everything is there 

  • Mismatching emotions (inside/outside)

  • Baseline assumption: people are not lying to us

  • Alcohol changes the conversation

  • Drunk Malcolm

  • Wisdom for the leaders of the world: it’s ok to be wrong

  • What does it mean to change someone’s mind?

Radiolab: Tit for Tat

https://pca.st/episode/561db961-6c7c-4595-abb0-dbd612a13ce6 (19.9.2019)

  • Making the podcast

  • Prisoners dilemma: 6 months, 5 years, 10 years ... paradox: die beiden können nicht mit einander sprechen

  • Computer tournament ... 200*

  • Winner: 2 lines of code .... 1. be nice first, 2. do the same as the other

  • An eye for an eye ... not 10 eyes for a eye

  • Real people at war ... same!

  • Show me a scalp 💀 

  • Generous Tit for Tat

Bobby Owsinski's Inner Circle Podcast: Episode #283 – Streaming Royalties May Change For The Better, SM58 Facts, And Engineer Jesse Ray Ernster

https://pca.st/episode/a7c21777-6267-4e71-9773-87108774b3fc (19.9.2019)

  • Deezer royalty plan 2020

  • User centric payment system

  • SM58: TV ... Las Vegas

  • SM59

  • Stems

  • Recallable Workflow

  • Print the stems like the Rough ... stem mastering

  • Versions: final mix, tv version, instrumental, stems, a capella, Screenshots, Settings Photos from Hardware gear

  • Fake Magic with (cabeling)

  • Challenge: sonic dreams vs. reality

  • Maaq for top end

  • https://www.audiotestkitchen.com/

  • Business advice: how can I help?

The James Altucher Show: 489 - The Art of Human Connection: Brian Grazer on How to Let Curiosity Lead You Forward

https://pca.st/episode/2f99b1ad-86e6-4d5b-a81d-8004b3e59ab9 (18.9.2019)

  • Richard Pryor

  • Dyslexia

  • Learn about the people you talk to

  • The engine of show business

  • Splash: the dumbest ideas (can) become a success

  • The most original execution of something

  • Simple: picking girls („a beautiful mind“) https://youtu.be/LJS7Igvk6ZM

  • The bridge of eye contact 

  • Getting out of your comfort zone forces you to up your game ... Use this discipline every day

  • Beatles: Demokratisch ... all 4 had to agree

  • Outliers ... TV Show

  • Providing value without having a agenda 🔑 

  • Energy: people feel you

Score: The Podcast: Marco Beltrami had never seen a horror movie before Scream

https://pca.st/episode/81185197-68f2-4a46-89b5-e81c9615b772 (17.9.2019)

  • Recording up the hill ... focused

  • „I Robot“ ... Alex Proyas ... Not ONE note of music

  • Don’t do this at home: 17 days to go! No second guessing

  • No idea = Problem with the movie

  • Best score: Ford V. Ferrari

  • Jerry Goldsmith: „I always score I want it to be“ ♥️

  • Hiding behind complexity vs. be economical, as simple as possible for the desired result

  • Jerry Stories: „No one can write melodies ... write 24 bars“

  • Tango ... This is what I should have done

  • „Empty“ piano pedal as breath/drums

  • SCREAM: first horror movie

  • Chris Beck ... can I use your studio

  • Whistling + violins + Wes Craven

  • If you are in for a penny you are in for a pound ... you signed up for the gig

  • A quiet place ... detuned piano

Working Class Audio: WCA #248 with Eyal Levi - URM, The Demands of Metal, Standards and Devotion to learning.

https://pca.st/episode/ee0d906b-f602-4d41-a7cd-e32378a225a2 (17.9.2019)

  • Prince of darkness (John Carpenter)

  • What would my future me want? (GTD)

  • Metal: you have to be in it to can make it

  • Metal Arrangement: NO Space, no Range ... everything fighting with anything else ... it’s all distorted: making sense out of noise ... high speeds = ultimately clarity (no air)

  • Classical music vs. Metal: demanding physically and stilistisch ... there is no in between

  • Metal: musicians and engineers

  • Metalhead Lifestyle

  • Kurt Belew: Nasty on demand

  • High standards: Put yourself first

  • „Why are you comparing yourself to the worst?“

  • Music Industry = Guerilla Warfare

  • School = going in other people’s pace

  • Learn the business you are in

  • Study like your Lügen tepends on it

  • Written well, recorded well, arranged well = mixes 

Herbstbunt: Wer nur alt wird, aber nicht klüger, ist schön blöd von Thomas Gottschalk (13.9.2019)

https://www.audible.de/pd?asin=3837145891&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006