I’ve tried to keep my real last name out of search and AI for this site and one of the big AI tools just figured it out. I’m not sure how. But let’s keep it off here. I use my pseudonym from my working musician days, Peter Woods.

Woods was my mother’s maiden name — although legally it was an adopted name and not her birth name (so I’m not…Read More

Dad and daughter compare how many Radiohead songs are on their Spotify playlists.
Dad: 180
Daughter: 48

To be fair, I also include Thom Yorke solo songs. My wife says I am in the Radiohead “superfan” category.

I’m going to need a huge break after Black Friday.

The day’s not even over, and we’ve already had the highest traffic for any single day in LinkedMusician’s history. In fact, we’ve had more unique visitors today than we had in an entire week during our first several months. I did expect November to be a busy month, but I didn’t anticipate that we’d be at this level. For the IT pro members, I…Read More

RIP, Jack DeJohnette, one of my all-time favorite drummers and from my hometown of Chicago. I had the opportunity to see Jack perform many years ago and even to talk with him for a bit and let him know how much his drumming inspired me. I even shared with him that when I was 16, I got to hang out with Buddy Rich, but meeting him was a greater…Read More

For music software-related retailers, so far, Plugin Boutique is easily owning the pre-Black Friday sales promotion space. They are bombarding us with killer deals and bringing Black Friday pricing to late October.

There is a ridiculous amount of deep discounted sample libraries, plugins, and music production software on sale right now. Valhalla Plugins, SoundPaint, and FabFiler are the only major developers I can think of that aren’t presently and probably won’t be doing deep discounts this season (Valhalla and SoundPaint don’t have sales, and FabFilter’s…Read More

Last year CHATGPT literally wrote my eulogy, claiming that I had made significant contributions to the field of marketing and cause for better ethics for the profession, but that I had died. Today, I was looking at the analytics reports for LinkedMusicians and fond that there’s a page that actually links from Cakewalk Forum to LinkedMusicians –…Read More

If anyone wants to connect on Facebook, you can find me (okay, my pseudonym from my musician days) here. I am contemplating building up the social media channels for LinkedMusicians in the future:

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Do we have any Rush fans here? I’m certainly one.

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson have decided to give it another go. The surviving members of Rush are going on tour next year. You can see the dates in the attached graphic.

Well, one thing I’ve seen this week, as website traffic has more than doubled over the last week, registrations are starting to pick up and SPAMMERS are registering at a rate of around 5-7 per day. I have been impressed at how well our software has been doing at catching them. Only one got through and made a SPAM topic, which I deleted within 30…Read More

Looking over the latest website stats, we grew by 65.4% over the last 28 days, which is an increase from our previous growth rate over the past few months, which has stayed around 51-53 percent per month. Our registrations are picking up a little. They’re always higher during periods when people are posting on the site. That remains our greatest…Read More

Finish this sentence using a song lyric:

“Love is…”

I’ll start:

…the answer
…like oxygen
…in the air

What’s your Franks Red Hot in plugin form, you know, the “I Put That SH*T On Everything” one that just seems to fit in everywhere?

For me it’s Overloud’s Gem Mod for whatever width everything needs. Does the job perfectly, and so efficiently too. (yes the one that was a freebie at some point, can’t remember where though).

I was recently talking to an indie developer about the market overall and the extreme deep discounting and how it puts pressure for developers to do very significant deep discounts to get attention in this market. Here we are months ahead of Black Friday and we have unbelievable discounts from developers big (NI, UAD, UJAM, IK, UVI…) and small.…Read More

If you are not familiar with 404 Media, check them out. Tech journalists extraordinaire. This should be a free read to non-subscribers. I recommend the free newsletter if the sub it out of your budget. They cover ALL tech, but I thought this story might be of interest to LM.

EDIT == Sorry- this story is now paywalled…Read More

How Lofi Girl Became a Chill Beats Empire

How the iconic looping video of a studying anime girl and stream of chill music became a big business.

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My wife was just showing me how this musician who goes by the name Plumes doesn’t just sing to audiences of people, but performs for wild animals. So far, I’ve seen videos of rhinos, a tortoise, and this sealion. The animals seemed soothed by his music.

What was responsible for you deciding to learn a musical instrument? Did your parent/guardian enroll you in music lessons or did you decide on your own?

How old were you? And, if you chose to learn on your own, what inspired you to want to learn?

RIP Rick Davies of Supertramp. I’ve been a fan since I was a kid.

Perhaps the greatest rock band of all time weighs in on Ozzy, Autotune, reverb, and other important topics. A must watch from the rock GOATs.

I used to run a Facebook Group called “Kindness” years ago. I suppose I was very motivated to do that when my kids were young and I wanted to impress upon them the imporrtance of kindness and caring for others. I would post inspiring stories and quotes about people doing acts of kindness in the group. While I stopped posting in it, I thought this…Read More

Uncle Jon's Music | Westmont, IL 60559

We are a family owned and operated musical instrument store and service center in Westmont, IL established in 2004

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So, I was compiling lists of the best free audio production videos for the NEW Audio Production FORUM, using videos that I’ve saved in playlists over the years. Please join in these lists and add your own recommendations — and in my feed on YouTube was a video that seemed like it knew me. It was titled, “How to Mix Your Sh*tty Vocals.” I cracked…Read More

Tutorials / Education - LinkedMusicians

The son of a music teacher and musician, I started piano lessons at 3, became a drummer in our family band the next year playing around the Chicago area. I later took organ and drum lessons from various teachers, played percussion in school bands from elementary school to HS and started playing as a drummer semi-professional at 18, continuing for around 12 years until sustatining an injury causing lifelong tendinitis. Biggest achievements: joining a critics darling rock band and getting fans including Jimmy Chamberlan and Louise Post (Veruca Salt) who attempted to persuade me to join Veruca Salt for their first major US tour. I declined. Oops. Today I'm just a dad / hobbyist musician attempting to record music 20+ years after stopping.

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What have you actually learned from your influences?

We can all list the artists we’ve been influenced by, but I think it’s more interesting to list the things you’ve actually taken from them.

For example, I would say that I’ve learned how to do bends from Jimmy Page.

Melody from David Gilmour.

I don’t play bass that much, but most of what I…Read More

This just appeared in my YouTube feed and I really like it! AI did a damn good job with this, but slipped up with the background vocals.

The guys over at Production Expert made a post about the demise of software subscriptions. I think it’s a little hopeful. But if we keep the discussion focused the DAW-related software industry, it’s pretty clear that most of the Millennials and older buyers LOATHE subscriptions. I’m careful to make a clear distinction between what I’d like to…Read More

The Software Subscription Bubble May Be Set To Burst | Production Expert

As subscriptions multiply across the audio industry, many professionals are rethinking what they are really paying for and whether the model still works.

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Anybody else got AYAIC’s M3 product? It’s a pretty impressive tool for the mix stage of a project.

If the author’s science is correct (all based on the concept of universal laws of level planes) it makes a mix rather quick and more accurate compared to this amateur’s mixing skills.

I took a project where I had applied all the EQ, compression…Read More

Your pick for the song with the worst lyrics ever written

Share as many songs as you like. Quote the lyrics, and, even better, include a link to the song on YouTube so that we can hear it for ourselves.

I am a big Robbie Robertson fan and I finally got around to watching the doc about The Band. Sharing in case anyone interested. The doc is good. A lot of stuff I already knew from before. Some stuff I didn’t. I didn’t know Dylan lived in pink house with them for 6 months and thats when they made basement tapes for instance.

I am also a Band fan,…Read More

Man, what a tough day. I have way too much going on today and tomorrow and spent this morning troubleshooting the site. Everything should now be working fine. I believe I located the plugin / script that was causing the problem (which brought the site down).

As I bought tickets for my son and I to see a Chicago Cubs game before he goes back to college and there’s now a 100 percent chance of thunderstorms, I started singing this song. I had to play the video so my son would know it.

Good darn question. In no particular order:
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Freddie Mercury
Roger Daltrey
Paul Rogers
Except for the first two, this list will change in one hour.
In the FWIW category I saw a chart once comparing Freddie Mercury’s highest sung note (not a scream, but a sung note) and Paul McCartney’s. Both covered FOUR FULL…Read More

Your picks for the 5 greatest rock singers of all time.

Name a guitarist you think is greatly underrated.

MUSIC or LYRICS ?

I was recently vacationing with extended family at a lake house in the Olympic mountains. This debate arose during a game of Kubb (lot of fun BTW). My son-in-law believes that lyrics are more important than music in a song. His brother and I took the other side.

Okay, my two most anticipated movies of 2025 are Spinal Tap 2 and this… I was and remain a huge fan of Jeff Buckley. He was pure musical magic. An unbelievable talent.

What’s life without humor? Sure, it’s a bit cocky. It’s also true.

Name a band or solo artist widely seen as a one-hit wonder that you feel has been greatly underappreciated.

This was unexpected: a drummer swap between two major bands. The Foo Fighters former drummer, Josh Freese, is joining Nine Inch Nails, while Nine Inch Nails former drummer, Ilan Rubin, is joining The Foo Fighters. Josh also formerly played drums with Nine Inch Nails during the 00s.…Read More

I was chatting with a developer friend the other day and he was telling me how impressed he is with SoundPaint’s CS-80 library, as it represents a developer more extensively sampling one of these instruments than any other developer has ever done. To be very candid, while I’m friends with the 8Dio / Soundpaint folks, I was tied up with other…Read More

As we’re not seeing much activity in the various discussion groups, I’m going to be TEMPORARILY hiding ALL of the Discussion Groups with the exception of The Wall. So one group to handle it all, The Wall (yep, it rhymes). Consolidate and conquer! 🙂

News flash! We’re increasingly seeing developers registering for LinkedMusicians. Clearly, the word is starting to spread. If you’re a developer, or an employee or contractor of a developer or retailer that sells music-related products or services, please be sure to read our Community Rules (linked near the bottom of the navigation bar) before…Read More

LinkedMusician Community Rules And Site Policies - LinkedMusicians

The son of a music teacher and musician, I started piano lessons at 3, became a drummer in our family band the next year playing around the Chicago area. I later took organ and drum lessons from various teachers, played percussion in school bands from elementary school to HS and started playing as a drummer semi-professional at 18, continuing for around 12 years until sustatining an injury causing lifelong tendinitis. Biggest achievements: joining a critics darling rock band and getting fans including Jimmy Chamberlan and Louise Post (Veruca Salt) who attempted to persuade me to join Veruca Salt for their first major US tour. I declined. Oops. Today I'm just a dad / hobbyist musician attempting to record music 20+ years after stopping.

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SPINAL TAP 2 TRAILER

A friend of mine, a songwriter and musician out in LA, saw a special showing of SPINAL TAP 2 a few weeks ago and said it was hilarious. I can’t wait until this comes out! My most anticipated movie of the year!

🙂 I made this fooling around with AI (obviously). The guy kind of resembles Steven Slate…

Re: Help Name the LinkedMusicians Bear

How about:
“Naked Ladies”

It would also be tribute to an often underappreciated band.
Hey! Have you seen the Bear ‘insert name’ on LinkedMusicians?

Not really serious but, it at least, made me smile.