audiobridge is revolutionizing how the world makes music. By building an easy, yet powerful recording and collaboration platform exclusively for the mobile devices that the majority of the world already uses daily, audiobridge significantly lowers the barrier to entry for creatives around the world. The audiobridge team is combining cutting ...
Mobile audio recording app, audiobridge, is announcing a new executive advisor and mentor as they move toward their vision of reshaping the entire music recording industry.
Christine Vonderach, current Head of Information Technology at $1.2B employee-owned resource recovery company, Recology, is driving transformative technology changes to enable significant business value. After joining PayPal as a Senior Technical Director in 2003 following their acquisition by eBay, Vonderach...
Mobile audio recording app, audiobridge, is announcing a new executive advisor and mentor as they move toward their vision of reshaping the entire music recording industry.
Christine Vonderach, current Head of Information Technology at $1.2B employee-owned resource recovery company, Recology, is driving transformative technology changes to enable significant business value. After joining PayPal as a Senior Technical Director in 2003 following their acquisition by eBay, Vonderach helped guide PayPal beyond its post-startup phase and into the mature business it is today. More recently, she was the CIO of Blackhawk Network, a $2B company that creates solutions for prepaid cards and gift cards and was an IT VP at Clorox helping to drive their digital transformation.
Matt Miller, CEO and Founder of audiobridge, has already benefited from Vonderach’s executive level mentorship on numerous occasions since first meeting her at the Bishop Ranch Intelligence Innovation Accelerator (BRIIA) — a tech startup program focused on AI — and Miller is excited to continue the relationship.
“Christine has been one of the most important voices in our team's transition from early prototype to a widely released and growing product,” Miller said. “She's mentored us through key decisions we've made as an early startup including data strategy, personnel changes, and fundraising. I feel super fortunate to have her with us as we realize our vision.”
Named to the Bay Area’s Most Influential Women in Business list in 2015 and 2020, Vonderach has a broad skill set and distinguished resume when it comes to tech business leadership, including: shaping strategic initiatives, enhancing customer analytics, driving meaningful transformations, running engineering and product development, and managing project portfolios. She is eager to continue mentoring audiobridge, who she sees as an accomplished team creating a potentially industry-changing product.
"Matt knows an amazing amount about the music industry – what works, what’s broken, and where it could go,” said Vonderach. “What I bring to our relationship is broad executive experience – I work to bring value by asking insightful questions to focus on what is most important."
About audiobridge
audiobridge is revolutionizing how the world makes music. By building an easy, yet powerful recording and collaboration platform exclusively for the mobile devices that the majority of the world already uses daily, audiobridge significantly lowers the barrier to entry for creatives around the world. The audiobridge team is combining cutting-edge software techniques with a carefully planned user experience, creating the world’s first fully guided music creation platform. This will allow creators to focus on the nuances of their song rather than the nuances of the software
The innovative new music recording app, audiobridge, is announcing that current Board Member and previous CRO of LyricFind, Andrew Stess, is joining their team in an advisory role. Stess brings decades of proven success across the business media landscape, including as a CEO and founder of ampliFIND, which was acquired by Sony in 2011, VP of Consumer Electronics at All Media Guide (AMG), and in his current role as founder of StessCo Consulting Group LLC. Working with music and tech startups is a speciality for Stess, having spent the last nine years as a sales consultant and business development strategist for promising young entrepreneurs including Dash Radio and Music Story. In addition, Stess has closed deals and networked with the biggest music media companies in the world, including, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google/YouTube, Spotify, Vevo, and Fender.
With a proven track record of developing businesses from the ground up, Stess is looking forward to sharing his expertise with a startup that promises to revolutionize the music recording industry.
“I love what Matt and the team are building and I am eager to work with them to help them grow and guide them to the next stage. I love collaborating with fresh new startups and they are well positioned to be very successful,” Stess said.
The timing for a business development mentor couldn’t be better for audiobridge, as they have recently launched a Wefunder campaign and a successful new suite of digital recording features aimed at helping musicians record music with the help of artificial intelligence.
Matt Miller, founder and CEO of audiobridge, knows that the future of music recording isn’t at a workstation, but on a phone. And he is excited to gather ideas from Stess on how to make the exclusively mobile recording app change the way music is recorded forever.
"It's been great having someone with Andrew's experience understand our vision and provide a fresh perspective. We've had great conversations so far and he's already brought us tons of insight on the best approach in taking audiobridge to the next level. The team here is super excited to continue to learn from him and deepen this relationship as we grow,” Miller said.
About audiobridge
audiobridge is revolutionizing how the world makes music. By building an easy, yet powerful recording and collaboration platform exclusively for the mobile devices that the majority of the world already uses daily, audiobridge significantly lowers the barrier to entry for creatives around the world. The audiobridge team is combining cutting-edge software techniques with a carefully planned user experience, creating the world’s first fully guided music creation platform. This will allow creators to focus on the nuances of their song rather than the nuances of the software.
The disruptive and innovative music recording app, audiobridge, is announcing the public launch of their Wefunder campaign. Unlike traditional crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter, contributors on Wefunder can own a stake in audiobridge. And with a fearless vision and 18 months of uninterrupted growth, audiobridge is uniquely well-positioned to provide a return on investment by dominating the future market share of mobile recording platforms.
And revolutionizing the music industry.
“We focus on our users' experience and strive to make the simplest but most powerful audio recording tool the world has ever seen; exclusively on mobile devices,” said audiobridge founder and CEO, Matt Miller.
With a minimal investment of $100, anyone can own a piece of audiobridge and its strategy to democratize the creating and recording of music. As a bonus incentive, the team is offering better terms for those who invest in the first $50,000. Over the next six months, the audiobridge team will focus their efforts primarily on finding ways to generate revenue through conversation with their power users and marketing and partnership research.
Audiobridge plans to use funding from Wefunder investors to expand the advantage they already have over their competitors: making their suite of recently released Audio Effects smarter and adding machine learning to create the smoothest mobile recording experience available on the market to date. Artificial intelligence is at the forefront of their vision for the remainder of 2020 with the anticipated addition of the audiobrain in December, providing a fully guided recording experience for artists of all skill levels.
The team at audiobridge, all of them musicians, saw a glaring hole in the 2018 audio recording software market: There was not a single music recording app that was easy to use, built exclusively for mobile, that produced professional results.
Knowing big-name artists like Billie Eillish and Steve Lacey regularly record music on their phones, that mobile dominates today’s internet usage worldwide, and that 5G networks continue to expand each day, the future-facing team at audiobridge determined an exclusively mobile app interface was the future of audio recording.
In short, they envisioned a world where users no longer needed to pay for expensive studio time or fumble through costly and complicated software to make a professional song.
The team at audiobridge invites investors and musicians alike to test out the free app on iOS App Store, its unique suite of audio effects, and guided music recording atmosphere to see what the future of music recording looks like.
For more information on audiobridge’s past, present, and future, or to invest, visit the audiobridge Wefunder page here.
About audiobridge
audiobridge is revolutionizing how the world makes music. By building an easy, yet powerful recording and collaboration platform exclusively for the mobile devices that the majority of the world already uses daily, audiobridge significantly lowers the barrier to entry for creatives around the world. The audiobridge team is combining cutting-edge software techniques with a carefully planned user experience, creating the world’s first fully guided music creation platform. This will allow creators to focus on the nuances of their song rather than the nuances of the software.
Why spend hours, days, even weeks wrangling with hundreds of audio recording software features when four main effects are the key ingredients to creating a quality, professional sounding song?
The vision of audiobridge is simple, to create a digital audio workstation so intuitive that any user, musician and non-musician alike, can record a song on their mobile device that sounds professional grade, without the assistance of an audio engineer.
With its latest release of Audio Effects on the mobile app, audiobridge is doing just that: expanding a growing suite of features giving users powerful but simple-to-use tools that enhance recording experiences and bypass the clunky complexity of expensive desktop audio software.
After surveying musicians and audio engineers worldwide, audiobridge decided on four sonic staples to kick off their Audio Effects suite:
Reverb
Delay
EQ
Compression
Anyone familiar with audio software will recognize these as standard features to any sound recording studio — but audiobridge is redefining how music is created, and simplifying the process in a mobile-first, tech centric world.
Utilizing its intuitive, mobile- and tablet-only interface, audiobridge is infusing machine learning into the standard reverb, delay, EQ and compression offerings to not only simplify a user’s experience, but also to fit professional quality music into a handheld device. They are giving musicians a simple way to create music, and using artificial intelligence to handle the minute details.
“We have built a tool that guides musicians through music creation. It will be like having an audio engineer in your pocket,” says audiobridge founder and CEO, Matt Miller.
Though there are other companies utilizing machine learning and AI in desktop music software, no one is offering the tools audiobridge has delivered on exclusively the mobile and tablet interface. And most of audiobridge’s direct competitors are primarily focused on social media for musicians with a secondary emphasis on audio recording features. Meanwhile, audiobridge is keeping their music editing and recording tools front and center, with a goal of making them smarter and more intuitive.
Audiobridge is asking the question, why rent a recording studio or grapple with bulky digital recording software when an intuitive mobile app can produce the same result?
“Revolution comes from musicians, from the people,” Miller said. “We are breaking down the barriers of entry, making the process more accessible for all. We want to replace the 1,200-page Pro Tools user manual with a red record button.”
About audiobridge
audiobridge is revolutionizing how the world makes music. By building an easy, yet powerful recording and collaboration platform exclusively for the mobile devices that the majority of the world already uses daily, audiobridge significantly lowers the barrier to entry for creatives around the world. The audiobridge team is combining cutting-edge software techniques with a carefully planned user experience, creating the world’s first fully guided music creation platform. This will allow creators to focus on the nuances of their song rather than the nuances of the software
audiobridge has a simple proposal: Most of what you need to make quality recorded music--multitracking, for example--can be packed into a smartphone.
This proposal is more radical than it sounds at first. The world’s more than 7 billion phones can now act as little recording studios, ready for everyone, everywhere to lay down ideas, play with arrangements, and make music. “We’re making something for everyone, not just for pros or aspiring pros, but for the entire world, including young people and kids,” says audiobridge founder and CEO Matt Miller, himself an experienced musician, session player, and songwriter. “That’s the vision, to have the power of Pro Tools and the simplicity of a voice memo.”
The vision is now available as an iOS app for free. The app reflects a reality where major hits are being composed on phones, and where many successful songwriters first record their ideas on the fly via hurried voice memos. audiobridge’s multi-track capabilities let composers and songwriters take things further, turning hummed lines into full arrangement sketches (or finished tracks). In addition, due to lockdown, audiobridge’s remote collaboration features have led monthly recorded hours on the app to skyrocket, growing 38x between May 2019 and May 2020. During the same period, the app has increased its MAU tenfold to more than 10K with minimal promotion.
Making serious music on a smartphone makes sense to many musicians and producers, people who may not have the resources to invest in a pricy home studio or buy expensive studio time, and who already use their phones to create. Miller knows their struggle well; he was a working musician who did everything from touring the college circuit to writing songs for other artists. In LA clubs, he would often play five hours a night as part of blues bands, mastering his craft well enough to get regular calls for studio sessions. For his various projects, he longed to get ideas down fast and share them quickly with collaborators, even once he shifted focus from full-time music to freelance software development, to eventually running his own software development company.
Miller figured a mobile app for multitracking and collaboration was around the corner. “But it was just never done,” he says. “By a certain time, I had done enough development to know how the tech works, and as a musician, I knew what exactly I had been seeing in my head for years. It was naturally something I ended up doing once I had the resources, with a few lightbulb moments along the way.”
Miller knew from the beginning that the design and user experience would be key to making the app intuitive, so a musician could download, pick up her phone, and get recording immediately. To pack the powerful features of digital audio workstations onto a small device, however, you need to understand exactly what people need to see and how to streamline their work. “It’s all about UX. What we’ve done very consciously is keep it mobile only and keep it simple,” says Miller. “audiobridge only works in portrait mode and doesn’t support landscape, for example. We’ve embraced the constraints, inserting the recording process into how people already use their devices.”
To simplify the app interface yet keep all the features, audiobridge’s development team has strived to automate key moments. Many creators don’t want a full buffet of detailed options; they just want their work to sound good. “The question is how do we add features when we’re out of room on a small screen without creating problems. That’s where machine learning and other automation comes in. You automate as much of the extraneous process as possible,” Miller explains.
Automation and tech tools have historically led to new sounds and creative practices, and audiobridge hopes to empower people to find them. This also means welcoming developers with cool ideas, effects, or features that can work with the app without audiobridge having to build them in house from scratch. “We love community involvement,” enthuses Andrew Perusi, audiobridge’s product partnership manager (and the bassist for pop rock band Hanson). “The artists who use our platform and the new creative ways they engage with their collaborators help shape audiobridge. User input is a big part of our story, and it's how we've built audiobridge from the beginning.”
“There’s a lot of talk in the music tech space about democratizing music creation, but it’s intellectually dishonest,” states Miller. “They may say it but they don’t do it. Some companies have really cool powerful tech that can make the creation process open to all, but they are using these old-school business models, which often set up barriers to music creation. No one is willing to admit that they don’t know yet what models might fit this new creativity, or that they may actually be setting up unnecessary barriers for musicians.” This can lead to bizarre, nonsensical hybrids, when the old legacy business practices or processes get tacked onto innovative products, in the interest of appeasing antsy investors and making money now.
Miller, Perusi, and audiobridge see it differently, sticking to a truly democratic model inspired by the innovative speed of open source software approaches. “You can’t do things the old way,” Miller insists. “You need to think outside the industry” and work within a small device everyone knows and loves.
About audiobridge
audiobridge is revolutionizing how the world makes music. By building an easy, yet powerful recording and collaboration platform exclusively for the mobile devices that the majority of the world already uses daily, audiobridge significantly lowers the barrier to entry for creatives around the world. The audiobridge team is combining cutting-edge software techniques with a carefully planned user experience, creating the world’s first fully guided music creation platform. This will allow creators to focus on the nuances of their song rather than the nuances of the software.