Beta Blocked, Patched

So, as it turns out, nobody in Madison or Milwaukee had a Shure Beta 58 mic in stock. Ward Brodt told me that had a whole bunch. I drove over there, they didn’t. They tried to sell me a regular 58 for $125. They then tried to sell me an …

Techno and TV

I caught a commercial the other day that featured Daft Punk’s “One More Time” as the background music. Now there is a song that’s optimized for the dancefloor. On TV, the brick-wall compression caused so much weird ducking that it just sounded like the music was being squeezed out of …

Music and Meaning

Dan, myself, Mercedes, and William all had a few glasses of wine and began to rant about music on sunday. It was a fascinating discussion. William gets very up in arms about composers inventing a new musical language for every piece, then getting upset when listeners don’t get it right …