Making a Scene Presents

Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Terry Robb
Some musicians collect awards. A rare few become so closely associated with excellence that an award ends up bearing their name. Terry Robb is one of those rare artists.
Born in Vancouver and now based in Portland, Terry Robb is widely regarded as one of the finest acoustic blues guitarists on the international stage. His mastery of fingerstyle guitar is so respected that after winning the Muddy Award for Best Acoustic Guitar multiple times, the Cascade Blues Association permanently named the honor after him. It is a distinction that speaks not only to his technical brilliance, but to his lasting influence on the blues community.

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Making a Scene Presents - Tonalic by Celemony: Intelligent Loops That Actually Listen to Your Music
There are two kinds of tools in modern music production. The first kind makes noise faster. The second kind understands music.
Most loop tools fall into the first category. They give you sound, but not context. You drag something in, hope it fits, and then either force your song to work around the loop or spend time chopping it up so it doesn’t feel like a copy-and-paste job. That process can kill momentum fast, especially if you are an independent artist juggling songwriting, production, recording, and release schedules on your own.

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Making a Scene Presents - Record Labels Aren’t Evil—They’re Just Optional Now
For most of modern music history, record labels were not just powerful. They were necessary. If you wanted to record, distribute, promote, or even be taken seriously, you needed a label. That reality shaped everything artists were taught to believe about success. Get signed. Give up control. Hope for the best. But here is the truth nobody in the industry likes to say out loud anymore. Record labels did not suddenly become bad. They simply stopped being mandatory.

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Making a Scene Presents - Fixing Weak Performances Without Re-Recording: Ethical AI Editing
There is a quiet fear that sits in the back of a lot of recording sessions. It shows up right after the take feels emotionally right, but technically messy. The singer rushed a line. The guitar player dug in too hard on the chorus. The drummer pushed the fill just enough to make the groove wobble. Everyone in the room knows the truth: the performance means something, but it is not quite holding together.

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There is a quiet problem ruining a lot of good music before it ever has a chance to connect with listeners. It is not bad songwriting. It is not cheap microphones. It is not even weak mixes. It is loudness. More specifically, it is the guessing game around loudness that happens in home studios every single day.

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