Tag: RECORDING

A few months back, Google integrated Google Voice into Gmail, allowing users to make calls through its Web interface. (Since the debut of 'Call Phone,' we can count on one hand the number of times we've actually used it.) We did just notice, however, that Google recently added the ability to record incoming calls to the VoIP service. A small record button now appears just above the dial pad when ...

Copyright law doesn't just pose a threat to file sharers and pirates. According to the Library of Congress, it may very well kill audio archiving, as well. In a recently published study, the Library of Congress concluded that current copyright law poses a formidable threat to music archivers, who must now work around strict regulations that the Library deems "restrictive and anachronistic" in ...

Until now, most music Web apps have been little more than fun distractions, great for making noise, but not very good for serious music production. Audiotool changes that. While it probably won't lead you to ditch Ableton Live, Logic or even Garage Band, it does show how powerful Flash can be in the right hands. Audiotool has a surprising amount of depth for something that exists in a browser ...

You've probably never before heard this from your grandparents, parents, uncle, older sibling, the burnout dude at the record store, or that guy with the Prince Valiant/Johnny Ramone haircut hanging out in the corner of your favorite dive bar, but -- over the years -- music has changed. Even more than musical styles, themselves, the processes and equipment associated with recording music, ...

You've spent hours writing quality comedic YouTube material and perfecting your delivery, but when you finally watch your masterpiece, your voice doesn't sound deep and smooth like you'd expected. Instead, you sound like a whiny, pubescent goob. What's the deal? PopSci.com recently asked Vanderbilt University audiology professor why a person's recorded voice sounds different than what they hear ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is a recording worth? Way more than that if the RIAA has anything to say about it. The folks over at Listverse have compiled a top 10 list of incredible audio recordings, and my is it a potent one. The range of emotions we experienced when listening to each selection was as varied as the recordings themselves. The most startling is a recording of ...

True Big Brother 24/7, 365 surveillance is not here just yet, but if Martin Sadler, a senior scientist at Hewlett Packard is to be believed, it's not too far off. By 2057, he says there will be roughly one million sensors and recorders for every U.K. resident. Sadler has warned that the amount of information being collected from such a network of devices will lead to important ethical dilemmas. ...