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<\/a><\/p>\nFigure 1 – A screen shot of the KS popularity page under publications. “Music and Audio” is at the top!<\/p>\n
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As a professional audio engineer and producer, I get a lot of unsolicited material from young artists. I do actually listen to everything that comes my way unless I have to go through major stress to get to the actual audio. If I music is pleasant, the sound reasonable, and the voice expressive, I will response to the sender with positive comments. If I find the song difficult to listen to, the sound poor, and the vocals buried in the mix…I usually politely beg off. If pressed, I’ll give my professional opinion. I try to avoid being nasty or too blunt. If there’s no talent there, it might be better to gently steer the person towards another career. In the long run, there’s a place for all of us. However, it might not be the place we dream about.<\/p>\n
When I was a music student at CSUN, I had to audition on my performing instrument. Everyone had to have a “performing instrument” and since I was a guitar player (folk, jazz, and rock…not classical), I decided that I would pick piano. I am a competent pianist…but it was very painful. I was admitted to the music department and told to get my chops up in order to continue in the program. I can vividly remember exiting one of the auditions that I played (I played terribly!) with one of the piano faculty. He put his arm around my shoulder and counseled me as we walked down the hall. “Mark”, he asked, “are you really sure about this music thing?” I didn’t know how to answer.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, I made it past the audition. I learned enough Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Ingolf Dahl to pass. Thankfully, I never had to perform a recital on the piano. I was a composition major. And I was an outstanding student. The doubt that the piano faculty member expressed was a catalyst to me. I graduated summa cum laude<\/em>, was given a major university award for scholarship, and ultimately selected for a master class with Pierre Boulez. Not bad for someone that couldn’t make it through the F Major Bach Invention!<\/p>\n I succeeded at the things that were important to me…although I really wish I were a better keyboard player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I can’t tell you how encouraged I am by the outpouring of support for the “Music and Audio: A User<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[97,657,50,1041,40,172,57,17,1032,70,640,26,639,1043,980,42,298,251,645,638,637,227,643,1048,169,1026,1027,954,150,41,347,27,1022,116,659,660,661],"class_list":["post-5219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dr_aixs_posts","tag-5-1-surround","tag-advanced-resolution","tag-aix-records","tag-analog-copies","tag-analog-vs-digital","tag-audio-resolution","tag-audio-specifications","tag-dsd","tag-dvd_audio","tag-hd-downloads","tag-hd-music","tag-hd-audio","tag-hi-res-audio","tag-hi-res","tag-hi-res-music","tag-high-resolution-audio","tag-high-res-music","tag-high-resolution","tag-high-resolution-audio-experience","tag-hires-audio","tag-hires-music","tag-hra","tag-hra-listening-experience","tag-kickstarter","tag-mark-waldrep","tag-music-and-audio","tag-music-and-audio-a-user-guide-to-better-sound","tag-music-server","tag-pcm","tag-provenance","tag-spectragram","tag-spectragraphs","tag-studio-acoustics","tag-surround-music","tag-uhd-audio","tag-ultra-high-definition-audio","tag-ultra-high-resolution-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5223,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions\/5223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realhd-audio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}