Thursday, June 26, 2008
Music news Ludacris partners with VoodooVox to launch cellphone recording studio
Posted by Erin Everhart on Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 7:36 PM
Cellphones have upgraded.
Thanks to Atlanta native and Grammy Award winner Ludacris, cellphones can now be used as personal, on-the-go recording studios.
Ludacris' multi-genre music website WeMix announced last week that it has teamed up with network exchange providers VoodooVox to launch MyVox Voice API, the newest — and cheapest — way to "drop a flow."
Now, any WeMix.com member can use their cellphone as a microphone to lay down vocals, tracks and beats and instantly broadcast their original content worldwide.
What's it mean? Musician hopefuls will no longer need over-priced recording equipment and expensive producers to record their own music. As long as you have a cell phone — which is most everyone between the ages of 10 and 75 — you can cut your own original track.
"A&R, marketers, the radio game, million-dollar videos, predictable producers: this system makes it really tough for new blood or new ideas to rise to the top," said WeMix founder Chris "Ludacris" Bridges. "Using WeMix allows new artists to get their voice heard."
Before, WeMix artists could upload content only via the Web. But this partnership integrates VoodooVox's MyVox platform into the user-generated online recording studio, enabling cellphones as microphones, ready to record and broadcast anyplace, anytime.
The best part of all this: It's free.
By having a short advertisement at the beginning and end of each track, VoodooVox and WeMix are able to cut costs. And with all the recording studio hassles that MyVox Voice API bypasses, it's sure to be an inconvenience most rising artists will stomach.
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