Ep430: Rick Beato - Analog, AI and the Future of Music
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
YouTube music guru Rick Beato shares his thoughts on vinyl, analog recording and a future with virtual reality, deep fakes and AI. Topics include;
- What role does vinyl play in Rick's life?
- Rick still has all his records, CDs and tapes
- The obligatory analogue and digital discussion
- Bad remasters for CDs
- Is Rick surprised by the resurgence of vinyl?
- The challenge of making an all-analogue record
- Why do many people prefer music on vinyl?
- Mixing engineers interpreting audio
- Possible future audio formats – surround video
- Is Rick hopeful or wary of AI?
- Some people will prefer AI to human crafted music
- Rick's AI Senate Testimony
- Using AI for mixing and audio editing
- The Beatles "Now and Then" was more EQ than AI
- Future challenges due to deep fakes
- AI and Deep Fakes challenge our assumption of authenticity
- Deep fakes licensed by the official artist
- Staying positive in an industry with lots of scepticism
- Rick can disassociate music listening with analysis
- Making "What Makes This Song Great" with A Perfect Circle
- Rick's wish list for future interviews
- Dislike of the term "YouTube Influencer"
- Interacting with other YouTubers – Anthony Fantano
- Pat Finnerty of "What Makes This Song Stink" series
- The album Rick equates to perfection
- Ron Carter's recollections of Rudy Van Gelder
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Rick Biotto. I'm nerding out with Nate here on the Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:04.0 | This episode is brought to you by VMGVinyl.com. |
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| 0:11.7 | Refresh your records with VMGVinyl.com. |
| 0:14.9 | And with that, on with the show. |
| 0:17.4 | Welcome to the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:22.2 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 0:26.6 | Besting testing. |
| 0:27.8 | Is this thing on? |
| 0:29.9 | Oh, hey, everyone. |
| 0:32.2 | Happy New Year. |
| 0:33.7 | Happy 2024 and all that stuff. |
| 0:36.8 | Hey, guess what? |
| 0:37.3 | I got a new theme song. That's new. I'm not calling it a |
| 0:41.1 | theme yet. I'm just trying new things, shake it up a bit, trying something new with the format. |
| 0:46.5 | But that is a cool groove. Happy to have it at the top of the show for now. This is Nate here on the |
| 0:51.8 | Vinyl Guide podcast. I'm here after a short break, where I relaxed, listened to a lot of records, took the dogs to the beach, and overall just enjoyed some R&R time, which I hope you all did as well. |
| 1:05.6 | And now I'm back in 2024 with episode 430 of the Vinyl Guide. And wow, what a kickoff to the new year. |
| 1:15.3 | Rick Biotto, musician, producer, YouTube phenomenon. He doesn't like the term YouTube |
| 1:22.0 | influencer, which I understand. So let's just call him a YouTube phenomenon. Rick regularly |
| 1:27.4 | breaks down songs and topics and music several times a week on his YouTube channel. And today he joins us here on the vinyl guide to cover a myriad of topics around records, analog recording, as well as the potential impact and challenges that artificial intelligence AI will pose on the future of music. |
| 1:48.0 | It's a pretty fascinating chat, and he is absolutely the right guy to have it with. |
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