This is a documentary about the current state of fidelity, with industry people talking about what is happening in the world of compressed-data (MP3) based music delivery.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, right, hugs Beats by Dre co-founder and Apple employee Jimmy Iovine at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday, June 8, 2015. The maker of iPods and iPhones announced Apple Music, its new, paid streaming-music service to launch this summer. (AP / Jeff Chiu)

Hi everyone

My E-book "Mastering your music with plugins" is now available for free download.
This E-book focuses on methods to make the best use of plugins for mastering and a number of very useful tips to achieve a punchier, fuller and more spacious master.

Download here:

I'll begin. I remember you had to sometimes press 3 buttons to do certain tasks. I remember this thing wasn't cheap either. List price $995.00

Greetings all.

As a photographer, filmmaker, lifelong audio enthusiast, and beginner sound recorder, I'm glad to have found this website to research, ask for, and perhaps sometime, offer advice for the art of recording.

How many of you moved to Hollywood with high expectations to join or put a band together within a month or two and rise to the top of the club circuit in short order? How did that turn out?

Hi everyone,

First of all, I wasnt quite sure where to post this so if it's in the wrong forum, could a kindly mod move it for me?

As part of my degree Im conducting a study on the relationship between listening fatigue, how we perceive audio quality, genre preference and listening experience.

I could really use some advice on choosing equipment. I have a custom built PC and I want to be able to switch back and forth between music production (recording), DJ (both live and recording) and listening to music with as much quality as possible. In other words switchable between flat and non-flat. Where I am especially lost is the USB Audio Interface and DAC.

I sing but I don't play any instruments. I'd like to find software that allows me to do the following...

This has some interesting figures about the music business: