Soundboard.fm
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On Air · 2026
Soundboard.fm

Live with the masters who define the sound.

A live coaching platform for music. The artists who shape what every other practitioner learns from — now reachable, on a regular signal, by the people who would inherit the craft.

StatusConcept
OperatorDanny Levy
Built OnPropel Pro
01 · The Concept

A station. Not a course catalog.

Soundboard.fm is a live coaching platform where the artists who shape contemporary music teach the artists who will. Sessions are real-time, two-way, recorded — not pre-produced video. The brand is broadcast-coded by design: a station you tune into, hosted by the practitioners themselves.

"Every musician needs a soundboard — someone who reflects their work back, refined. We're the soundboard the masters become."

— Operator framing
01 · Format
Livetwo-way · recorded
Real-time coaching, not pre-recorded video. The artist sees the student work and responds.
02 · Roster
Threetier architecture
Ovation (founding masters), Pro (curated session players), The Field (working musicians).
03 · Tech
Operating18 months in sports
Propel Pro's live coaching infrastructure, reconfigured for music. Already production-grade.
02 · The Soundboard

The brand is the product description.

"Soundboard" is the rare word that lives in both literal and metaphorical music vocabulary. Every musician knows the literal: the mixing console at a live show, the resonating plate inside an acoustic instrument. Every non-musician knows the metaphor: the person you bounce ideas off who reflects them back refined. The platform is exactly that — the metaphor, made literal.

— Literal
The console that shapes sound.
In a live venue, the soundboard is where the engineer mixes the show — adjusting levels, EQ, balance, in real time. In an acoustic instrument, it's the resonating plate that turns string vibration into sound. The soundboard is what makes the work sound right.
"The board sits between the artist and the audience. Nothing leaves without going through it."
— Metaphor
The person you bounce off.
In everyday English, "use me as a soundboard" means: bring me your work, your ideas, your draft — and I'll reflect them back, refined. The master becomes the soundboard. The student brings the work. The work goes through them and comes back better.
"You don't go to a soundboard to be taught. You go to be heard."
03 · The Platform

Built on Propel Pro. Already shipping.

This isn't a from-scratch build. Soundboard.fm is configured on the live coaching infrastructure Propel Pro has been operating for 18 months in elite sports — already used by Vermont Soccer Association and Manhattan SC, with several million dollars of contracted work behind it. The technology is production-grade. The brand reconfiguration is what's new.

01
Live two-way sessions
Real-time coaching. Artist and student see and respond to each other. Not async video exchange (the ArtistWorks model). Not pre-recorded MasterClass. Live.
02
Side-by-side video + annotation
The artist can mark up performance video in real time, isolate moments, demonstrate, then watch the student replay corrected. Same surface used for sports drills, now for musical phrasing.
03
Drill recreation + voiceover
The artist records a demonstration; the student records their version; both stack side-by-side for direct comparison. Asynchronous review is built into the live structure.
04
Whiteboard + session archive
Theory diagrams, chord charts, voicings — annotated live. Every session is recorded and indexed for the student to revisit, and for the platform to build a curriculum library over time.
04 · The Roster

Three tiers. One station.

The masters who define the craft, the journeymen who execute at world-class level, and the working musicians who keep the lights on. Each tier is a show on the same dial, with its own time, posture, and price. The whole roster gives Soundboard.fm range that single-tier platforms can't match.

Tier 01 · Ovation
The masters who define the craft.
Direct mentorship · ultra-limited cohorts
Premium · Application

The founding artists. The practitioners whose work is studied by everyone else in their genre. Ovation is the smallest tier by design — direct access at a tier that respects what the artist's time is actually worth. Cohorts are small, applications are evaluated, and the artist's involvement is real and recurring.

Direct live sessions with the artist
Small cohorts (typically 4–8 students)
Multi-week structured engagement
Session archive for cohort members
Application-based admission
Real artist involvement, not surrogates
— Founding Artist Roster
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Tier 02 · Pro
The session players who execute at the top.
Working studio + tour-level professionals
Mid · Recurring

The instrumentalists, vocalists, and producers whose names sit on the credits of records you know — the working professionals who execute Ovation-tier vision in the room. Pro tier brings craft, repertoire, and on-the-ground technique. Less rare than Ovation; more available; more practical for students working on specific skills.

Working session musicians and producers
Mid-size cohorts (typically 8–16)
Recurring weekly or bi-weekly cadence
Subject-specific coaching tracks
Open admission with screening
Curated by the operator + Ovation tier
Tier 03 · The Field
The working musicians on the road.
Bar circuit · club circuit · regional grind
Entry · Open

The musicians who keep playing — bars, clubs, weddings, regional tours, road bands, house gigs. The Field honors the part of the craft most coaching platforms ignore: the grind. These are the players who know what it actually takes to make a living in music week after week — and who can teach students how to do the work, not just how to play the notes.

Working road and venue musicians
Larger cohorts and group sessions
Practical career-track focus
Set list, gig prep, booking, the grind
Accessible entry pricing
The reality layer of the platform
05 · Operator

Built the tech. Operating it daily.

Propel Pro is an 18-month-operating live coaching platform in elite youth sports, with active partnerships and a real customer base. The infrastructure is shipped, paid-for, and battle-tested. Soundboard.fm doesn't require building anything new technically — only configuring what already works for a new vertical.

— Partnerships · Active
Elite youth sports programs
Live coaching deployed and operating with established youth sports infrastructure. The same product surface — different sport, different cohort, same coaching loop.
  • Vermont Soccer Association — statewide program partnership
  • Manhattan SC — premier club coaching deployment
  • Multiple additional programs in evaluation pipeline
— Platform · Production-Grade
Eighteen months. Live in market.
The tech isn't an early prototype. It's been shipping coaching sessions to paying customers for over a year — with the failures, edge cases, and refinements that come from actually operating a platform versus describing one in a deck.
  • Several million dollars of contracted work executed
  • Two-tier structure (Elite + Pro) already validated
  • Live two-way coaching as primary product surface
  • Recording, archive, and playback systems in production
06 · The Brand

A station, not a magazine.

Broadcast-coded by design. Cross-generational by intent. The Signal mark is the equalizer bars that read as live audio across every genre — hip-hop heads see a level meter, jazz musicians see a VU meter, classical players see audio levels. The .fm extension anchors the radio metaphor. Same dial, every craft.

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Soundboard.fm

Same dial. Every craft.

For the masters who define the work. For the people who would inherit it. For the operator who knows the room becomes infrastructure.

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