Bluegrass Underground: Bluegrass music from Cumberland Caverns
Bluegrass Underground is taped live 333 feet below ground at Cumberland Caverns in McMinnville Tn inside of what was named by the first people to behold the natural amphitheatre, The Volcano Room. Here water and time entwined 3.5 million years ago to create one of the most acoustically pure natural spaces on earth. No man-made [...]
More John Hartford Analog to Digital Transfers
Our good friend Dave Shipley(Foxwood Mastering), brought us about 12 more John Hartford 2″ tapes today for transfer into pro tools. These are more tapes from the Aereoplane sessions as well as some later 80s sessions. I am blown away by the sheer quantity of all of these recordings… “just keep the tape rolling” was [...]
Young songwriter honors ‘price of peace’ – Springfield, IL
above: “Recording The Price of Peace” “For a girl to say goodbye to her daddy’s smile is rough — can’t cover it up.”That’s one of the lines in a song written by 12-year-old Alyssa Gaddis of Springfield after hearing her father talk about deployment ceremonies for National Guard troops being sent overseas to Iraq and [...]
Gaddis Girls “The Price of Peace” Military Tribute Song
We recently had The Gaddis Girls in the Studio with producer Hart Steen to record overdubs for the song “The Price of Peace,” a moving tribute to soldiers at war, from a daughters perspective. (the following from ThePriceOfPeace.org) The “Price of Peace” was written in early summer of 2008 by Alyssa Gaddis after a discussion [...]
Taylor Swift Records at Creative Caffeine
We were please to have Taylor Swift in the studio this week. Taylor is wonderful to work with in the studio and is very easy-going and focused. Look for Taylor’s new album “Fearless” which will make it’s debut on Nov. 11. For more info on Taylor visit her website at TaylorSwift.com. Engineer Collin Peterson with [...]
The big debate: Do record labels have a future?
It’s no secret that the music industry has not made an ideal transition into the digital era. Album sales are falling, P2P file sharing is rife, and a plethora of new artists are using the Internet as a platform for gaining international exposure. With the introduction of MySpace Music, three major record labels — [...]
Telefunken U47
Creative Caffeine’s Telefunken U47… The U47 is perhaps the most legendary microphone in history. Ours is completely original, pre-war tube and all… Sounds fantastic!!! Blog This:
Copyright bill blasted as “enormous gift” to Big Content
Update: the bill has since been approved on a 14-4 vote. The United States Congress returned to work this week, and senators appear to have copyright on the brain: A broad intellectual property enforcement bill introduced in July is slated for markup by the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, and another aimed at cracking down on [...]
How the Music Business Spent the Summer Killing Itself
It’s been a depressing summer for the delusional record industry. We’re seeing a total disconnect between labels’ unrealistic, old-school revenue expectations and what the market can bear. On the streaming-music front, the sad reality is that advertising revenue may never fully support the music industry wishful-thinking profit margins. Full Article: How the Music Business Spent [...]
Fake Fail: BSOD Repeatedly Strikes Nine Inch Nails Concerts
BSODs (blue screen of death) have been plaguing NIN on their current tour. In fact, one has been popping up on the giant display behind them at just about every concert. So what’s the deal? Will Trent be forced to fire his tech guy? Hardly. The truth is that it is all part of the [...]
