Apr
01
Mastering is preparing a track or album for the general population. Not only cleaning up the track but also preparing it, to be as transparant and juicy as possible on the most soundsystems available on this planet. A mixdown might sound great in studio settings, but the final master still has the final prerogative to …
Jan
03
Open Letter to Minister Van Quickenborne; regarding the growing digital market with glowing possibilities towards a growing culture of indie artists and the ever limiting Auvibel tax getting real on 1 february 2010. All external hdd’s, memory cards, usb sticks, settop boxes and mp3/mp4 players will be taxed with extra by Auvibel; even if used only for own materials. This tax is to support the artist, while the common artist, not connected to a collection-rights agency will get nothing.
Mar
07
Who says music can’t be free while creating value? Think twice, because NiN’s CC-Licensed album, Ghosts I-IV, has been one of the best selling albums of 2008! This while this album could be freely downloaded as Creative Commons release. This is clearly the evidence Creative Commons can cooperate perfectly together with licensing; while NiN fans could have turned to any file sharing network to download the entire CC-BY-SA album legally.
Jun
27
My soulmate wanted to rip the CD to put on his Archos Jukebox, since he is not using CD’s anymore but still buys them to be legal and to have the full version. Since I have put in the CD I can’t run my company invoice system anymore, can’t do anything at all with that …
