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      "text": "What's up, everybody? Welcome back to Music More. We had exactly zero pause between the last podcast and this one. I am joined once again with Riley Knapp, and we are going to start off the conversation about AI mastering as well as his company that he is running with some awesome, awesome dudes that I know from USC as well.",
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      "text": "And we're going to dig into it. The first conversation that we were having, I was describing LANDR and kind of the A-B test that I unintentionally did. I didn't mean to do that to you.",
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      "text": "that to you and how Riley just absolutely destroyed LANDR um not in the like weird Fox News destroyed kind of way but in just like an actual like oh yeah this is way better and way more musical um and so I wanted to start off the conversation talking",
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      "text": "creator replacing rather or creative enhancing AI and kind of where you think generative fits into that where you think AI and the mentality of developers is at and just kind of your take on just that high level overview of kind of where we're at with AI and music yeah",
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      "text": "For sure. So my gut reaction with the AI world, everything that's happening within the music space, whether it's generative or workflow, is that You need to join it. There's",
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      "text": "Cool.",
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      "text": "no beating it",
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      "text": "Yeah.",
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      "text": "at this",
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      "text": "Yeah.",
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      "text": "point.",
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      "text": "Right.",
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      "text": "So first",
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      "text": "whatever",
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      "text": "your feelings are about it,",
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      "text": "Yep.",
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      "text": "you need to at least understand that it's here.",
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      "text": "hmm.",
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      "text": "someone else in the room now. You need to acknowledge them. That's You need to respect it.",
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      "text": "That's spooky.",
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      "text": "And, you know, as much, it is spooky, especially when it's a digital mastering dude who's just taking all these projects trying to be like, I want to have a word with you, man.",
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      "text": "But it's important to understand it, to recognize that it's happening. happening i",
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      "text": "think that there are you know gonna be a lot of jobs that are replaced i think that there's going to be a lot of work lost um it's going to change the way that people hear music and enjoy music uh it's it's it's going to change a lot you know the amount of people that i the amount of new clients that i have that reach out to me and send me a a LANDR version",
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      "text": "a mastered version oh",
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      "text": "would say out of new clients i would say it's 60 75 percent of the time When they send me, hey, so I have land and I did this, can you beat it? and",
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      "text": "we even get a project started and I don't it's crazy and I always respond the same I'm like listen you enjoy this I think I can I think I can add a new element to this I can add a human feel I can tweak it to the point where you want it very specifically I can fine-tune it but at the end of the day beating it may not happen you may enjoy this version for whatever reason more than my version",
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      "text": "so i promise to give you something different uh",
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      "text": "something unique and customized to what i think your sound is but it's up to you at the end of the day to make that decision um it's a cool it's a cool thing you know and a lot of the time i mean honestly i beat it i don't think i've not beaten it yet but uh a lot of times it is due to the fact that i can customize or i can maybe add a note you know i'll send it back and they're like hey this is actually this is cool could you just make it a",
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      "text": "you know, when someone does send that. That being said, I don't like the fact that it's taking a lot of jobs.",
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      "text": "You know, there's a lot of conversations already happening now with mastering engineers, a lot of my peers. Even mixing engineers, there are new AI mixing softwares coming",
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      "text": "um so the the show is called love music more this segment is called love music why so it's just a short pitch why why do you love music why did you do it explain to somebody else about your passion i just want to hear it from you so that we can hopefully spark that in somebody else why do you love music",
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      "text": "Thank you, Riley. Love this conversation. Where can people find you just in case they missed the last podcast?",
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      "text": "Absolutely. You can find me on Spotify. My artist project is RKCV, so you can find Spotify updates like all those places. My app is called Stemport. It is a workflow app for the pro audio community. Stemport.co, you can find it there. And then just Google me. I'm around.",
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      "text": "Love it. Yeah, be sure to hit up Riley. As you can tell, he's a very nice guy.",
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      "text": "I am Scoobert Doobert scoobertdoobert.pizza is where you can find my links and thank you so much for listening to this podcast thank you for joining Riley be sure to subscribe rate five stars tell your friends",
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