New Monday #120
Happy Monday -
Our Sound Techniques channel strip is in beta testing! It's time to dig more deeply into the Sound Techniques story.
A staggering amount of iconic records were made on Sound Techniques consoles. And yet, most of you haven't heard the name outside of New Monday, and Dan and I hadn't heard of Sound Techniques until March of 2025.
But we've all been hearing things recorded or mixed on a Sound Techniques console forever.
Sound familiar?
Sound Techniques consoles were warm, with tremendous low end, tons of punch and a sweet high-end clarity. A studio with a Sound Techniques console would get work because they had a Sound Techniques console—it was a selling point. But by 1976 they were no longer being built, and today, the name is a whisper in the audio industry.
It’s a good story, and I’ll tell it to you over the next few weeks.
Here's a link to part one, the founding of Sound Techniques and the studio scene in London in the 1960s.
Two Things to Read
Read this: it's about how Ai is the new Spotify, only with a scope of impact beyond music and the music business.
https://jacoporomei.substack.com/p/what-spotify-did-to-music-ai-will
And another read: Joel Gouveia writes about licensing and money.
A Free Ai Detector for Chrome!
The University of Chicago has released an Ai music detector as a Chrome Browser extension. Get it here: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/quicksilver/hacidakkfmemkmkjlkleegmlajbnfoga
Find out more about the team that put it together here: https://www.etch-humanity.org/etch-lab/quicksilver-plugin
Quicksilver has a 98% detection rate and a very low (<0.02%) false positive rate. It’s low-latency, returns a result in 30 seconds, and will work with any audio playing through your browser.
I hope you all managed to grab a Talkback Limiter while it was on sale. If you missed it, send me an email and I’ll extend the sale just for you.
Go make music!
Warm regards,
Luke