Podcast appearances and mentions of bill hare

Today's show is the first of two exploring fracking, one of the more controversial elements of the government's ‘gas-led' future roadmap. We hear from climate scientist and policy expert Dr Bill Hare, on why fracking poses a serious risk to our climate, and from Dr Monique Ryan, independent Member of Parliament for Kooyong and outspoken opponent of fracking. This episode was produced in collaboration with the Australian Youth Climate Coalition's From Us, For Us project, and the interviews were conducted by participant Ivy Sheng. As a high school student, Ivy speaks speaks from a challenging and underrepresented position: that of a young person inheriting a world in crisis.Image credit: Ivy, Miles and Jazmin (From Us, For Us). Earth Matters #1494 was produced by Mia Audrey on the lands of Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung in Narrm (Melbourne).

Stephanie Austin Letson is a jazz vocalist and educator from Northern California."Telling Stories" (released June 2024) is her latest album as a recording artistshowcasing her stunning vocal talents as well as the arranging/producingprowess of her Grammy winning producer Bill Hare.Stephanie is on the Grammy First Round Ballot in the "Best Jazz Vocal Album" Category.You can stream her album here:SPOTIFYhttps://open.spotify.com/album/5lSZwg...APPLE  / telling-stories-feat-fred-randolph  AMAZONhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3895NLQ/For more information  on her music and her Downbeat Award winning student groups, pleasevisit her website at:https://www.stephanieaustinletson.comProduced by Bill Harehttps://www.billhareacappella.com/hom...For video episodes and more visit Rob's channel at https://youtube.com/planetmullins

Acknowledgement of Country// Headlines// Cindy Baxter, Senior Communications Advisor with Climate Analytics, joined us to discuss the organisation's recently released 'Australia's global fossil fuel carbon footprint' report, which reveals the massive scale of Australia's domestic and international carbon impact via both local consumption and export-associated emissions. Cindy has been with Climate Analytics for 12 years, and has been working on global climate change issues for the past 33 years. Check out Climate Analytics' Bill Hare's recent Conversation article summarising key takeaways from the report here.// We heard part 3 of an interview Priya did last month with Stop LAPD Spying Coalition's Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane. This week's excerpt is the final part of our conversation, and touches on the importance of resisting liberal reformism and academic and non-profit complicity in state violence and what it means to build a culture of resistance centering the experiences of unhoused community members. Listen back to part one of our conversation here and part two here. We replayed a conversation between Kenyan feminist and activist Nita Okoko and host Jiselle on Accent of Women's August 6 show, where Nita shares an analysis of the current protests in Kenya, the effect of state repression on the population, and where the country and its government sit in a wider global landscape. Listen back to the full interview here.// Matt Landolfo, Victorian Campaigns Manager for the Wilderness Society, spoke with us about the afterlife of Vic Forests and about the potential and pitfalls of pushes for improved federal environmental protection oversight. While Vic Forests ceased to exist on 30 June 2024 after years of campaigning by environmental justice advocates fighting its destruction of Victorian native forests, the emergence of a new organisation called The Healthy Forests Foundation has left many in the environmental justice space asking questions (check out ABC's investigative report on the organisation here). At the same time, a current senate inquiry into a suite of bills proposing to establish a federal Environmental Protection Agency may provide an opportunity to bolster native forest stewardship efforts.// Community member Amber joined us to talk about the upcoming autonomous rally for trans liberation scheduled for this coming Saturday August 17 from 12-2PM outside Parliament House. The rally will counter an event being held at the same time and location by a trans-exclusionary radical feminist group. You can find more details about the counter-protest by heading to @transqueersolidarity on Instagram.// Image credit: Matt Hrkac, 2023. Support Matt's excellent frontline photojournalism here.//

Rev Bill crews talks to Bill Hare, one of Australia's leading climate scientists and chief executive of Climate Analytics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Eurasian Climate Brief is a podcast dedicated to climate issues in the region stretching from Eastern Europe to Russia down to the Caucasus and Central Asia.In this episode, we're speaking with Bill Hare, a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years' experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which was established to synthesise and advance scientific knowledge on climate change and provide state-of-the-art solutions to global and national climate change policy challenges.This episode is made by:•Natalie Sauer, a French British environmental journalist and English-language editor for The Conversation. She is also a MA student in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics at the School of Eastern European and Slavonic Studies, University College London. A former reporter for Climate Home News, her words have also appeared in international media such as Le Monde Diplomatique, Politico Europe, Open Democracy, Euractiv and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.•Boris Schneider, European Journalism Project Manager at Clean Energy Wire CLEW. Prior he has worked as a specialist on Eastern European climate and energy topics, amongst others for navos Public Dialogue Consultants and the German Economic Team. He graduated from the Free University of Berlin with a M. Sc. in Economics and is interested in the intersection of political economy and ecology in Eurasia.•Angelina Davydova, an environmental journalist from Russia. Angelina has been writing about climate change in the region for Russian and international media and attending UN climate summits since 2008. She also teaches environmental journalism and environmental and climate policy and communication in a number of universities and regularly organises training for journalists from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus on environmental and climate reporting. Angelina left Russia in March 2022 and is now a fellow of the journalistic programme Media in Cooperation and Transition (MICT) in Berlin.

“Net-zero is a big idea. It's a big theme. And, unfortunately, what's going up are many ways to look like you're doing net-zero when you're not. So in the ideal world, getting to net-zero means essentially reducing your emissions, and then, where you have residual emissions left, that means you might need to have negative emissions. For example, it's relatively easy to decarbonize the power sector completely, and you can do it quickly and cheaply in most places, but you're always going to be left with some levels of emissions from agriculture.”Bill Hare is a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years of experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which was established to synthesize and advance scientific knowledge on climate change and provide state-of-the-art solutions to global and national climate change policy challenges.He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Hare has contributed actively to the development of the international climate regime since 1989, including the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Hare is a graduate of Murdoch University in Western Australia and a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.· https://climateanalytics.org· https://climateactiontracker.org· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Bill Hare is a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years of experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which was established to synthesize and advance scientific knowledge on climate change and provide state-of-the-art solutions to global and national climate change policy challenges.He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Hare has contributed actively to the development of the international climate regime since 1989, including the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Hare is a graduate of Murdoch University in Western Australia and a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.· https://climateanalytics.org· https://climateactiontracker.org· www.oneplanetpodcast.org· www.creativeprocess.info

“Net-zero is a big idea. It's a big theme. And, unfortunately, what's going up are many ways to look like you're doing net-zero when you're not. So in the ideal world, getting to net-zero means essentially reducing your emissions, and then, where you have residual emissions left, that means you might need to have negative emissions. For example, it's relatively easy to decarbonize the power sector completely, and you can do it quickly and cheaply in most places, but you're always going to be left with some levels of emissions from agriculture.”Bill Hare is a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years of experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which was established to synthesize and advance scientific knowledge on climate change and provide state-of-the-art solutions to global and national climate change policy challenges.He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Hare has contributed actively to the development of the international climate regime since 1989, including the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Hare is a graduate of Murdoch University in Western Australia and a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.· https://climateanalytics.org· https://climateactiontracker.org· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Bill Hare is a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years of experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which was established to synthesize and advance scientific knowledge on climate change and provide state-of-the-art solutions to global and national climate change policy challenges.He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Hare has contributed actively to the development of the international climate regime since 1989, including the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Hare is a graduate of Murdoch University in Western Australia and a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.· https://climateanalytics.org· https://climateactiontracker.org· www.oneplanetpodcast.org· www.creativeprocess.info

Bill Hare is a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years of experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which was established to synthesize and advance scientific knowledge on climate change and provide state-of-the-art solutions to global and national climate change policy challenges.He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Hare has contributed actively to the development of the international climate regime since 1989, including the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Hare is a graduate of Murdoch University in Western Australia and a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.· https://climateanalytics.org· https://climateactiontracker.org· www.oneplanetpodcast.org· www.creativeprocess.info

“Net-zero is a big idea. It's a big theme. And, unfortunately, what's going up are many ways to look like you're doing net-zero when you're not. So in the ideal world, getting to net-zero means essentially reducing your emissions, and then, where you have residual emissions left, that means you might need to have negative emissions. For example, it's relatively easy to decarbonize the power sector completely, and you can do it quickly and cheaply in most places, but you're always going to be left with some levels of emissions from agriculture.”Bill Hare is a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years of experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which was established to synthesize and advance scientific knowledge on climate change and provide state-of-the-art solutions to global and national climate change policy challenges.He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Hare has contributed actively to the development of the international climate regime since 1989, including the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Hare is a graduate of Murdoch University in Western Australia and a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.· https://climateanalytics.org· https://climateactiontracker.org· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

“Net-zero is a big idea. It's a big theme. And, unfortunately, what's going up are many ways to look like you're doing net-zero when you're not. So in the ideal world, getting to net-zero means essentially reducing your emissions, and then, where you have residual emissions left, that means you might need to have negative emissions. For example, it's relatively easy to decarbonize the power sector completely, and you can do it quickly and cheaply in most places, but you're always going to be left with some levels of emissions from agriculture.”Bill Hare is a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years of experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which was established to synthesize and advance scientific knowledge on climate change and provide state-of-the-art solutions to global and national climate change policy challenges.He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Hare has contributed actively to the development of the international climate regime since 1989, including the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Hare is a graduate of Murdoch University in Western Australia and a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.· https://climateanalytics.org· https://climateactiontracker.org· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Bill Hare is a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years of experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which was established to synthesize and advance scientific knowledge on climate change and provide state-of-the-art solutions to global and national climate change policy challenges.He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Hare has contributed actively to the development of the international climate regime since 1989, including the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Hare is a graduate of Murdoch University in Western Australia and a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.· https://climateanalytics.org· https://climateactiontracker.org· www.oneplanetpodcast.org· www.creativeprocess.info

“Net-zero is a big idea. It's a big theme. And, unfortunately, what's going up are many ways to look like you're doing net-zero when you're not. So in the ideal world, getting to net-zero means essentially reducing your emissions, and then, where you have residual emissions left, that means you might need to have negative emissions. For example, it's relatively easy to decarbonize the power sector completely, and you can do it quickly and cheaply in most places, but you're always going to be left with some levels of emissions from agriculture.”Bill Hare is a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years of experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which was established to synthesize and advance scientific knowledge on climate change and provide state-of-the-art solutions to global and national climate change policy challenges.He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Hare has contributed actively to the development of the international climate regime since 1989, including the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Hare is a graduate of Murdoch University in Western Australia and a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.· https://climateanalytics.org· https://climateactiontracker.org· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Bill Hare is a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years of experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which was established to synthesize and advance scientific knowledge on climate change and provide state-of-the-art solutions to global and national climate change policy challenges.He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Hare has contributed actively to the development of the international climate regime since 1989, including the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Hare is a graduate of Murdoch University in Western Australia and a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.· https://climateanalytics.org· https://climateactiontracker.org· www.oneplanetpodcast.org· www.creativeprocess.info

“Net-zero is a big idea. It's a big theme. And, unfortunately, what's going up are many ways to look like you're doing net-zero when you're not. So in the ideal world, getting to net-zero means essentially reducing your emissions, and then, where you have residual emissions left, that means you might need to have negative emissions. For example, it's relatively easy to decarbonize the power sector completely, and you can do it quickly and cheaply in most places, but you're always going to be left with some levels of emissions from agriculture.”Bill Hare is a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years of experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which was established to synthesize and advance scientific knowledge on climate change and provide state-of-the-art solutions to global and national climate change policy challenges.He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Hare has contributed actively to the development of the international climate regime since 1989, including the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Hare is a graduate of Murdoch University in Western Australia and a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.· https://climateanalytics.org· https://climateactiontracker.org· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

“Net-zero is a big idea. It's a big theme. And, unfortunately, what's going up are many ways to look like you're doing net-zero when you're not. So in the ideal world, getting to net-zero means essentially reducing your emissions, and then, where you have residual emissions left, that means you might need to have negative emissions. For example, it's relatively easy to decarbonize the power sector completely, and you can do it quickly and cheaply in most places, but you're always going to be left with some levels of emissions from agriculture.”Bill Hare is a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years of experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which was established to synthesize and advance scientific knowledge on climate change and provide state-of-the-art solutions to global and national climate change policy challenges.He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Hare has contributed actively to the development of the international climate regime since 1989, including the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Hare is a graduate of Murdoch University in Western Australia and a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.· https://climateanalytics.org· https://climateactiontracker.org· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Bill Hare is a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years of experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which was established to synthesize and advance scientific knowledge on climate change and provide state-of-the-art solutions to global and national climate change policy challenges.He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Hare has contributed actively to the development of the international climate regime since 1989, including the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Hare is a graduate of Murdoch University in Western Australia and a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.· https://climateanalytics.org· https://climateactiontracker.org· www.oneplanetpodcast.org· www.creativeprocess.info

“Net-zero is a big idea. It's a big theme. And, unfortunately, what's going up are many ways to look like you're doing net-zero when you're not. So in the ideal world, getting to net-zero means essentially reducing your emissions, and then, where you have residual emissions left, that means you might need to have negative emissions. For example, it's relatively easy to decarbonize the power sector completely, and you can do it quickly and cheaply in most places, but you're always going to be left with some levels of emissions from agriculture.”Bill Hare is a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years of experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which was established to synthesize and advance scientific knowledge on climate change and provide state-of-the-art solutions to global and national climate change policy challenges.He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Hare has contributed actively to the development of the international climate regime since 1989, including the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Hare is a graduate of Murdoch University in Western Australia and a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.· https://climateanalytics.org· https://climateactiontracker.org· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Bill Hare is a physicist and climate scientist with 30 years of experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion. He is a founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, which was established to synthesize and advance scientific knowledge on climate change and provide state-of-the-art solutions to global and national climate change policy challenges.He was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Hare has contributed actively to the development of the international climate regime since 1989, including the negotiation of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Hare is a graduate of Murdoch University in Western Australia and a visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.· https://climateanalytics.org· https://climateactiontracker.org· www.oneplanetpodcast.org· www.creativeprocess.info

Who knew an electric bassist would alter the landscape of a cappella recording forever? Bill Hare sits down on The Pulse for a special hour-long episode to talk about how it all came to be - the fortunate, unfortunate, and sometime bizarre series of events that have had an enormous impact on the art form. Learn more about Bill Hare at https://www.billhareacappella.com

Bill Hare (pictured), the founder and CEO of Climate Analytics, has said in a Guardian story that the Australian Federal Government is a poster-child for inaction on the climate crisis. Hare discusses the likelihood of border taxes on Australia's carbon-intensive exports and slams the Morrison Government for its weak stance on dealing with the climate crisis. Recently, Climate Conversations discussed those border taxes and the government's disinterest in an episode entitled 'Nationals Leader appears to be working on his own demise'. I urge you to listen to and enjoy the sounds of 'Music for a Warming World'.

Amanda Cornaglia steps in for Rachael to showcase a conversation with the incredible Bill Hare, the world’s most awarded individual Contemporary A Cappella producer, including over 70 appearances on BOCA, over 100 CARA nominations, over 40 albums in the RARB "Picks of the Year" lists, and 13 "DeeBee" awards since 1987 in the Vocal Jazz category from Downbeat Magazine! Learn more about Bill Hare here: https://www.billhareacappella.com/home.html.

A cappella veteran, and Grammy winning producer Bill Hare joins Deke and Dietz to talk about how he got his start recording a cappella, his years of collaboration with The House Jacks, and how messing around in the studio led to recorded a cappella as we know it today. Segments: Sound Tutorial with Jo Vinson of Musae. Counterpoint: Can long-distance groups be successful? Original Song: "Isn't It Good to Be in Love Every Day?" by Bassless. Written by Sašo Vrabič . Used with permission.  

A cappella veteran, and Grammy winning producer Bill Hare joins Deke and Dietz to talk about how he got his start recording a cappella, his years of collaboration with The House Jacks, and how messing around in the studio led to recorded a cappella as we know it today. Segments: Sound Tutorial with Jo Vinson of Musae. Counterpoint: Can long-distance groups be successful? Original Song: "Isn't It Good to Be in Love Every Day?" by Bassless. Written by Sašo Vrabič . Used with permission.  

Finally, after 39 episodes, I’m going to address the aca-elephant in the room. I’m not even going to do an intro to this episode because I just want to dive in and share my thoughts and some useful information for those of you who are planning recording projects for your groups. This is the closest thing to a rant that you will ever hear from me.   So the topic usually comes to me in the form of a question from a potential recording client and it goes like this.   “Hi we are .  We are a mixed group from . We have 20 members in the group and we want to record 10 songs this year for an album. We want to release it in late April.”   And then they drop this… “ We love the Nor’easters or the Socal Vocals or Voices in Your Head or Pentatonix (you get the idea) and we want to record an album that has that sound.”   And then when we talk about budget, I inevitably get the information that they want to do everything for $2000 or that they haven’t even started to fundraise yet (and lets not even talk about how this email usually shows up the week before new years 4 months before the release).   Bill Hare wrote a great article about this topic back in 2015… and before that in 2006… and he’s probably had this conversation with groups in person more times than I can imagine. In his 2015 article he gave a very wonderful car analogy calling this the Aca Wealth Gap. I’ll link to the article in the show notes.   I’m going to go into a bit more detail. Not to discourage you but to share some reality.   First off the groups I listed above have invested tons of time into getting where they are… Over many years, they first set their standards high. They didn’t let people join their groups who didn’t reach their standard. Some went through lean years of 6 or 7 people in the group just so that they could maintain the quality level and expectation.   Then they worked their butts off... If you haven’t read Pitch Perfect (yes, the book, not the movie), I recommend it. In the book, you’ll see how much effort went into getting groups like Oregon’s Divisi and the Tufts Beelzebubs to where they are now. It’s pretty impressive.   These groups rehearse more and rehearse better. They listen and refine. They expect more individual preparation.   And then they work with professional arrangers and then learn from those professional arrangers and become great arrangers in their own right. They study music theory and vocal arranging. They listen and analyze the songs they are covering. They learn from the techniques and choices that the songwriter made.   Then they prepare for recording sessions. I’m not going to say it never happens but in most cases these groups come in so prepared to record that they can even start to experiment and create during a recording session. And in most cases all of the singers are prepared to record individually or in small groups and don’t get thrown off. And as a result, they can give musical, passionate performances on mic and take coaching. And this is why their albums are amazing. The passion and the energy. Creativity is one thing, but the passion and energy are what really connect with the listener.   And if the time investment wasn’t enough, then they invest money in their product.   The arrangers that most of these groups hire for at least part of their albums charge $300, $400, $500 or more per song to create an arrangement that really fits the singers in the group.   The top 10 - 15 recording engineers, editors, and mixing engineers that most of these groups work with start at $75 per hour or more. And to get a really great recording even with groups that have great talent and great arrangements, you’ll easily spend 4 - 6 hours or more recording the song, another 3 - 6 hours editing the song, and 2 - 6 hours mixing the song depending upon the engineer and the amount of tweaks you make to the mix. So you can see how quickly a budget of $2000 for an album would disappear.   And I’m not saying you can’t find some awesome up and coming talented engineer to work with you, but those up and comers get booked up really quickly when people find out how good they are, and they will really quickly move into that higher price range.   And believe me, the people charging $75/hour and up aren’t money hungry corporate CEO types. They love a cappella and want to help groups make great music, but they are just booked solid. And they are running businesses and supporting families and they also have to deal with their fair share of frustration when the occasional group can pay on time or 6 months late or ever.   Wow… sorry. That was a lot of negative. Like I said, I don’t normally rant like that. And I don’t want to discourage you.   If you are a group that doesn’t have financial support from your school or is in a smaller town and can’t get a lot of high paying gigs, don’t worry. There are ways to take advantage of parts of the system that these amazing groups have used.   First off, you can control your time, preparation and goals. You can commit to being awesome.   Secondly, you can learn how to record yourselves. If you want to learn how, I know a guy who has a blog and some video courses.   Third, you can invest the money you have wisely. You can get an arrangement or two from a pro arranger and learn from it. You can take a music arranging or theory class at your school. Then you can send the tracks you’ve recorded on your own to a top 10 - 15 a cappella producer to have them handle editing, mixing and mastering for you. And if they are in the top 10 - 15 (meaning you’ve seen their names on BOCA or their clients have won CARAs), they have their reputation for a reason. Listen to them when they give you advice.   Alright, so what have we been talking about today? I complained about a lot but I hope that I shared some good strategies for how the well known groups have gotten to where they are and how they make amazing recordings.   So thanks for joining me today. If you liked what you heard today, please drop by iTunes and subscribe and while you’re there, leave me a review. And please if you like the show, please share an episode with your friends and other a cappella fans. I really appreciate you taking time out of your busy week to listen to me talk about recording a cappella and I hope that I’m helping you on your journey. Bill Hare article - http://www.casa.org/content/how-much-ferrari-window   Recording A Cappella Mastermind - https://recordingacappella.com/mm   Ultimate Pre-Production Checklist - https://recordingacappella.com/checklist   Interested in a coaching session or joining one of our groups? -  https://recordingacappella.com/coaching Video Courses -  https://recordingacappella.com/shop

Bill Hare has had an incredible influence on my acappella engineering career. I literally wouldn’t be where I am today if I hadn’t annoyed the crap out of him with tons of questions over the years. Bill has over 30 years of experience as an engineer and producer and much of what we call the contemporary acappella recording sound was pioneered by him in the 1990s and 2000s. Yep… and he has a Grammy!  Bill is so busy when he’s home working that I had to catch him in NYC 3 hours before he was about to get on a plane back home. We cover his early history with acappella, how his sound began, how being neighbors with Digidesign affected acappella recording, and the most important thing to do when self-tracking.   Bill Hare - http://billhare.tv 10 Ways to Improve your Acappella Recording - http://recordingacappella.com/podcast

Bill Hare is one of the seminal legends of contemporary a cappella. He invented and developed the way in which virtually every group does recording, mixing, and mastering. He has worked with every major group out there, won all kinds of awards (including a Grammy), and still keeps his finger on the pulse of what's going on. This was a fun discussion about his past, about the goal of mixing and mastering, and about a cappella in general. Recorded in 2016.

Bill Hare is one of the seminal legends of contemporary a cappella. He invented and developed the way in which virtually every group does recording, mixing, and mastering. He has worked with every major group out there, won all kinds of awards (including a Grammy), and still keeps his finger on the pulse of what's going on. This was a fun discussion about his past, about the goal of mixing and mastering, and about a cappella in general. Recorded in 2016.

College a cappella experts Charlie Forkish, Bill Hare, Deke Sharon, Mickey Rapkin and Will Tarpeh exchange thoughts on the current state of the booming college a cappella scene.