Chad Gerber
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Music was never meant to be made alone, and Chad Gerber says the technology we keep building is quietly pushing us there.
Chad Gerber is a guitarist, songwriter, and entrepreneur who started flying out to Miami at 17 to play on other artists’ projects, and he has toured and worked in studios ever since. He joins Ryan Vet to talk about what technology has done to the music industry, from Napster and iTunes to Suno and AI-generated tracks.
Chad is not against the tools. His concern is what gets lost when a song is made without a second person in the room. Ryan and Chad talk about why listeners now expect every vocal to be pitch perfect, why the finished recording has lost its value, and why Chad thinks artists will be pushed back toward live music and local scenes. They also get into the loneliness of an on-demand, algorithm-fed world, and why learning a hard instrument still matters when a machine can hand you a track.
Chad also describes Melusine, the virtual studio he built so musicians in different countries can play together in real time, and the question behind everything he is building: how do we connect instead of isolate?
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