Everything began to change in record production in 1990, give or take a couple of years, when audio I/O connectivity became available for the Macintosh computer and Alesis launched its ADAT 8-track machine. The hegemony of the commercial recording studio was over; long live the home studio.
NAMM's ongoing Oral History Project compiles an annual "In Memoriam Industry Tribute" video that it plays as part of its onsite programming every year. Honoring pros from every corner of the music industry—pro audio and instrument manufacturers, music teachers, producers, studio and live engineers, musicians, sales reps and more—the video unspools every year in the lobby of the Anaheim Convention Center before a crowd of hundreds. But the contributions of many of those honored reach far beyond the confines of a convention hall, so PSN welcomes the opportunity to share NAMM's tribute video with our online audience.
"If RIN [metadata format] gets adopted, it means you've got a vehicle to make sure the data about you as an engineer or producer follows the files. By the time it gets to the labels, there is much better, more well-formatted data about all of the people that are going to need to get paid at some point. [Currently, rights organizations are] sitting on a whole bunch of money; they don't know who to give it to, and the reason is because not enough data gets collected about who all the contributors are." - Mark Isherwood, DDEX
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