Robair Report: Time and Space in L.A.
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"If you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time, you’re late."
We sacrifice a lot to be in the entertainment industry. At some point, most of us have weathered strained relationships with friends and lovers,...
Do the products we use for music production ever become obsolete if they still work?
There’s a certain level of artist who doesn’t have to think about flogging their own merch at shows. Then, there’s the rest of us....
This fact seems obvious, yet it surprises many when they hear it: In the beginning, people who wanted to make recordings built their own...
We got into the audio biz because we enjoy certain aspects of the job. It might have been the creative parts, the joys of...
In Zen they say: If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try if for eight, sixteen, thirty-two,...
One question that comes to mind when NAMM rolls around is: How much does audio quality and resolution really matter when recording? Not just...
Hey, I have something for you.” As I’m leaving a recent music industry event in San Francisco, a colleague reaches into the inner pocket...
Maureen Droney dropped this gem in my lap during a meeting at the 2013 AES show in New York City. Currently the Senior Executive...
While manufacturers have gone to great lengths to make computer peripherals plug-and-play, there is still a lot to be done in the hardware realm....
People like to complain that there is too much music being created. When I hear musicians say that, it often sounds like sour grapes:...
There’s a scene in the film All the President’s Men where Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, need to...
The old saw that “routine is the enemy of art” seems to be at odds with modern recording technology. Musicians work hard to find...
During the MIDI 30-year Anniversary panel discussion at NAMM 2013, featuring Dave Smith, Tom Oberheim, Alan Parsons, Jordan Rudess, George Duke and Craig Anderton,...
After a recent lecture about DAWs, one of my students asked me which audio recording program I used back in the ’70s. The wide-eyed...
Teaching classes at the city-college level is some of the most satisfying work I’ve ever done. The real payoff is at the end of...
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to hear sounds through someone else’s ears? When I introduce mic technology to my recording...
This year, Mix, Electronic Musician and Remix joined the editors of other music and audio magazines to vote for the best products of 2006/2007...