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The 46th Annual Grammy Awards
Is it just me, or does it seem as though every year, fewer trophies are handed out during the Grammy® Awards telecast? Believe it...
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A Wide-Open Market for Songs
One fairly recent development in game audio is the steady increase in the licensing of songs by both established and up-and-coming rock and hip...
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Ensemble Studios on Gods, Trolls and Minotaurs
Ensemble Studios in Dallas is one of the most successful publishers of what are known as real-time strategy games.
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Audio at Electronic Arts
AS LITTLE AS 10 YEARS AGO, sound and music for games were practically afterthoughts, usually handled by the same person, generated on MIDI synths...
Live Gear
Feast or Famine
While the major record labels continue to lick their wounds (and tally their losses) from a seemingly endless series of bloody skirmishes with Internet...
Films-TV
‘Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World’
THE EPIC sea adventure is as old as film itself, spanning from the silent years up through various remakes of Treasure Island and Mutiny...
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Recording Piano
Periodically, we like to check with engineers to see whether technology or other considerations have changed the ways they record music.
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Classic Tracks: The Isley Brothers’ “That Lady”
By the time the Isley Brothers scored their 2 million-selling smash hit “That Lady” in the summer of 1973, they'd already been in the...
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String Cheese Incident
The eclectic Colorado band known as the String Cheese Incident has been one of the more popular attractions on the jam-band circuit for 10...
Music Production
Eddie Kramer Never Stops
One certainly wouldn't blame this year's TEC Hall of Fame inductee — engineer and producer Eddie Kramer — if he wanted to slow down...
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Lee Dichter
After 40 years in film sound — half of those working at Manhattan's premier post-production house, Sound One — Lee Dichter has earned his...
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Songcatchers
Mickey Hart, longtime percussionist for the Grateful Dead, knows a thing or two about world music and field recording. He's lugged taping gear to...
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Fleetwood Mac Is Back!
"Things are good," Lindsey Buckingham says cheerily on the eve of Fleetwood Mac's cross-country tour. "We've got a nice fresh set going and a...
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Recording the Band
There was a time, not so very long ago, when nearly all "live albums" were recorded by remote trucks. Occasionally, you would find a...
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Surround Salvation
Don't have your dark suit cleaned just because you think that any day now, you're going to be attending a funeral for the compact...
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45TH Annual Grammy Awards
There was something for almost everybody on the marathon 45th Annual Grammy Awards telecast, held February 23 at New York City's Madison Square Garden.
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Bob Brockman
There are nearly as many different routes to becoming a music producer as there are producers. Some are born into musical families, where choosing...
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Surround Variations
Just as every stereo recording project is unique in some way, surround recording and mixing present certain variables and peculiarities. Recently, we
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Jamming With moe.
Call it the Grateful Dead Syndrome: a problem that seems to afflict nearly every group that's part of the current jam band scene is...
Films-TV
The Chamber of Secrets
In the year since Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was released, it has gone on to become the second highest-grossing film of all...
Films-TV
The Two Towers
Two down, one to go. Director Peter Jackson's take on The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a spectacularly ambitious undertaking: three films, each...
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The Big Trucks Keep Rolling
These are challenging times for every aspect of the audio business, and none more so than for the hearty souls involved in remote recording....
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PET SOUNDS IN SURROUND
When considering which classic rock albums would seem to be natural choices to make the move to a 5.1 surround format, the Beach Boys'...
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SINATRA IN HOLLYWOOD
If you check the semi-authoritative online All Music Guide (allmusic.com) listing under Frank Sinatra and scroll way down to Compilations, Boxes, you'll
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ELVIS: STILL NUMBER ONE!
Elvis Presley's hits have been packaged and repackaged a zillion times, but it's safe to say that no single-disc Elvis collection covers as broad...
Films-TV
GANGS of New YORK
Director Martin Scorsese is back on New York City's Mean Streets. No, it's not Little Italy, where much of the action in his critically...
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Classic Tracks: King Floyd’s “Groove Me”
An interview with producers Tommy Couch and Wolf Stephenson about recording King Floyd's Groove Me song. Recording and mixing techniques and equipment used during...
Facilities
High Tide at Ocean Way
In 1974, remembers Allen Sides, I leased a garage on Ocean Way in Santa Monica Canyon, essentially as a hi-fi demo room to show...
Facilities
Sunset Sound and Sound Factory
Precious few studios in L.A. (or anywhere else, for that matter) can boast that they've been around 40 years and are under the same...
Facilities
Le Mobile
Guy Charbonneau has long been one of the audio industry's most colorful characters. There's the matter of the heavy French accent (he's French-Canadian),
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Location RecordingReal Time
They are the workhorses of the film sound world, enduring endless days toiling in often hostile environments, arriving on the set before shooting begins
Classic-Tracks
Classic Tracks: Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer”
While it started as a songwriting exercise inspired by Alice Cooper, "Psycho Killer" became the New Wave standard-bearers' calling card.
Films-TV
Men In Black 2
Fourth of July weekend. It's hot dogs and parades, flags and fireworks, and more often than not in recent years, the opening of a...
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Down From the MountainAnd Into Your Town
Nearly three years after the release of the Coen Brothers' quirky film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and the accompanying soundtrack of Depression-era country
Facilities
Abbey Road at 70
It will probably always be known as The Beatles' studio. Nearly every recording session in the group's storied career took place in the large,...
Classic-Tracks
Classic Tracks: The Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up”
Engineer Chris Kimsey salvaged “Start Me Up" from the Some Girls sessions, and this time, everything clicked.
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BOB MARLEY
During his lifetime, Bob Marley was the undisputed King of Reggae, selling millions of records and becoming one of the most recognized musicians in...
Facilities
Surround Solutions
In the world of studio design, form follows function, so it's not surprising to learn that the hot-button topic in that universe currently is...
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LOS LOBOS TURNS 25
It's never been easy to get a handle on Los Lobos. On the surface, they seem like a band that mixes good-time rock 'n'...
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KODO’S MONDO HEAD
It's a beautiful afternoon in the spring of 2001, and I'm up at percussionist/producer Mickey Hart's ranch studio in northern Sonoma County, Calif., listening