Analog Lunch with Simon The Magpie

Simon the Magpie has a chat with Emily Hopkins and Russ along with co-host Analog Weapon. We talk about the best way to demo a pedal (balancing honesty), the experience of owning and playing a harp, working with pedal makers, audience interactions, playing weddings (and maybe someday divorces and funerals), and much more.

Emily:

• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EmilyHopkins
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilyharpist/
• Website: https://www.emilyharpist.com

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In which Simon the Magpie slowly realizes he has an infamous disease while talking with Analog Weapon and Dan Fingerman about all sorts of Magpie Pirates stuff, Dan Fingerman the lawyer, name origins and pseudonyms, contracts, what is enjoyable about making music, details and getting stuck, limitations, inventing workflows, self promotion, if people need artists, finding music, lawyer radio, active vs passive listening, lyrics, Dipwith being so cool, parasocial relationships, archiving, intellectual property law, and other stuff.

Dan Fingerman (Electric Octopus):

• https://electronic-octopus.bandcamp.com
• https://www.youtube.com/c/DanFingermanOctopus
• https://open.spotify.com/artist/3HVYrQ4wzgRQLAnVwdp9Dn?si=dJPKCxapSAeVR5i8hY6kAw

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In which Simon the Magpie and Analog Weapon talk with Aimee Nolte about curating old videos, recreating old videos, what interests the audience, the algorithm, thumbnail, nebula.app, collabs, your mom, NAMM 2020, getting copied, teaching, making music, jazz standards, virtuosity vs fun, listening to great musicians, singing with Bobby McFerrin, post-production, DAWs, mastering, sponsorships by mundane concepts, and other stuff.

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Aimee Nolte

Website: https://www.aimeenolte.com/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AimeeNolte

Nebula: https://nebula.app/aimeenoltemusic

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AimN

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AimeeNolteFanPage/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aimeenoltemusic/

Latest release (and Bandcamp): https://aimeenolte.bandcamp.com/track/dream-charlie-s-song

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Simon the Magpie and Analog Weapon have a chat with Eppu about his new project: Unfeatured Films. The Youtube channel explores non-traditional short films. Each installment takes a deep dive into a specific concept and cites various examples. We love Eppu forever.

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Unfeatured Films: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm-E6VUKKX7R8bwkiArJUHw

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In which Simon the Magpie and Analog Weapon talk with AllMyFriendsAreSynths about forgetting to record, OP-1, noise pedals, synths, ASMR podcasts, taking a break and coming back, documenting failure, being called an influencer, Americans being offended, YouTube recommending people that look the same them, attention vs. ideas, documenting the process, record contracts, drinking with heckseven, courting antagonism, disappearing comments on YouTube, and the guilt of selling things.

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AllMyFriendsAreSynths:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/allmyfriendsaresynths

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/allmyfriendsaresynths

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allmyfriendsaresynths

Sample Packs: https://allmyfriends.gumroad.com

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Simon the Magpie and Analog Weapon chat with Audio Pilz of Bad Gear about his Friday release schedule, purposefully soliciting correction in comments, bishu, what makes bad gear, Roland, streaming and theater, parental feedback, the algorithm, youtube shorts, developing a ritual, the production process, copyright strikes, memes and subliminal messaging, blaming deepfakes, guitar and pro-audio seriousness, origin story, the meme synthesizer, making pedals, and trying to communicate on the Øresundsbron.

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Audio Pilz:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AudioPilz

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Simon the Magpie and Analog Weapon chat with Hainbach about mutual success in the synth youtuber community, staying healthy and taking breaks, destruction loops and the progression from casual play to significant meaning, telling a story, soviet synths, patreon,  working with family, magpie pirates community, theft and translation, the Gaz Williams experience, the general usefulness of the internet, and also hainbach sings a song.

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Hainbach:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Hainbach

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In this episode, Simon the Magpie and Accurate beats talk about tactics for beginning a video, balancing between content that you want to do vs. content that viewers might want to see, music vs. gear, hoping that Jacob Collier isn't a complete genius, and much more.

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Simon The Magpie and Analog Weapon talk with Jeremy from Red Means Recording about YouTube comment criticism, playlists, coping with the algorithm, capitalizing insecurities, #musicradar and #bobeatsloopop, Twitter, Fart NFT’s, NAMM, and all sorts of other stuff.

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Simon The Magpie and Kristian Blåsol talk about what Kristian is working on, the process of documenting projects for youtube, ignoring the urge to follow trends, free furniture, participation prizes, and much more.

Kristian Blåsol:

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