By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 04/01/2003

The audio world lost another great one on February 16, when Richard Dr. Richie Moore died in his Orcas Island, Wash., home at the...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 02/01/2003

As we like to do every year, we're taking a moment to tip our hats to some of the engineers and producers who have...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 12/01/2002

The recording world lost one of its true giants when legendary engineer, producer and audio innovator Tom Dowd succumbed to emphysema on October 27...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 01/01/2002

In the endless post-mortems about George Harrison, I keep reading about his 1974 tour of America. That's not how I remember it: I remember...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 05/01/2001

The music of Harold Budd is steeped in mystery. It bubbles up from deep silences and softly reverberant spaces, insinuating itself like some sort...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 04/01/2001

It's a measure of just how far Aerosmith has left behind its image as 70s bad boys that they were asked to be part...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 04/01/2001

A Salute to the Tech Winners This is supposed to be the Age of Choice in the world of cable/satellite TV. So how come...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 03/01/2001

There's gold in them thar' tape vaults! Old and new bands alike are increasingly finding that the relatively low cost and high-profit margin of...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 03/01/2001

Besides being one of the acknowledged greats of American pop songwriting, PAUL SIMON is also a master producer, arranger and recordmaker who has consistently

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 12/01/2000

Over the past few years, Miami has emerged as one of the top second-tier recording scenes in the country - a nexus for homegrown...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 12/01/2000

It's been five years since the release of Joan Osborne's Top 10, multi-Platinum, major-label debut album, Relish, and three since she got off the...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 11/01/2000

Over the past three decades, Sheffield Audio-Video Productions has quietly grown into one of the most successful multimedia production operations in the

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 11/01/2000

FROM PUBLIC ENEMY TO GALACTIC New York-based engineer/producer Nick Sansano has forged a solid career out of working away from the mainstream - out...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 10/01/2000

FACILITY SPOTLIGHT Over the past eight years, Jonathan Wyner's Cambridge, Mass., M Works mastering studio has established itself as the one of the top

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 10/01/2000

ADVENTURES IN THE DOGHOUSE This time it was going to be different. Bob Weir, the former Grateful Dead guitarist/singer, was going to work quickly...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 08/01/2000

Long Island-based Glen Kolotkin is hardly a household name in the recording business, but over the course of more than three decades as an...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 08/01/2000

ADVENTURES IN SURROUND MIXING Everybody in the industry seems to be talking about 5.1, but how many engineers out there are actually doing surround...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 07/01/2000

Boston's WGBH stations are among the most active public stations in the country in terms of producing original programming, which includes concert broadcasts

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 07/01/2000

When Mix first decided to investigate the making of a few new live CDs from different musical genres, we didn't know how each had...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 05/01/2000

Call 'em a jam band, a groove band, whatever-moe. mostly plays really long (10- to 20-minute), highly rhythmic jams loaded with lots of lead...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 05/01/2000

Making Ride With Bob, Asleep at the Wheel's Grammy-winning all-star tribute to the legacy of Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, wasn't too much...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 04/01/2000

Fusion, anyone? During their heyday in the late '70s and early '80s, the Dixie Dregs were one of the most electrifying bands in America-a...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 04/01/2000

Hui Aloha might be called a Hawaiian "supergroup": It includes two of the Islands' finest contemporary slack-key guitarists/singers-George Kuo and Dennis

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 01/01/2000

Stan Ridgway has always been a keen observer of modern life. From his days as the frontman of the unusual but always compelling Los...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 01/01/2000

The tip-off that Marshall Crenshaw recorded his latest CD, enigmatically titled #447, in his own project room is the name of the studio in...

By Blair Jackson ⋅ Published: 01/01/2000

It's no surprise that Dolly Parton could make a fine album of acoustic string band music; the wonder is that it's taken her so...