In a Silent Way
Beautiful, isn't it? Gomez said. She seemed to sense that he was uneasy. Yes, beautiful, he answered. But he didn't feel that way at...
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Beautiful, isn't it? Gomez said. She seemed to sense that he was uneasy. Yes, beautiful, he answered. But he didn't feel that way at...
So you wanna talk about desktop production? Heck, I've been doing that since 1986. A Mac, a couple of synths, a Sony PCM-F1 and...
Michael Kamen was someone who crossed the lines between rock and classical music when it was a truly revolutionary idea, and he kept on...
Okay, kids, it's the longest night of the year, so it's time to gather 'round the simulated virtual fireplace and I'll tell you some...
Does anybody remember life before sound systems? Once upon a time, when music was played by unamplified instruments, the instruments' construction determined
Back when I was in college, audio production education was something you did on your own. If you wanted to learn how records were...
It's AES time. Thousands of us will flock to the Javits Center to drink overpriced lukewarm coffee, eat three-day-old sandwiches, lose our voices from
You know the hits, now read the book. You've read the book, now listen to the tapes. You've listened to the tapes, now watch...
The fire at The Station nightclub in Rhode Island was the worst music-related disaster in New England in over 60 years. One hundred people...
Some day, they'll come out with stereo television. I mean, the kind that you have to look at with both eyes, probably through special...
It was around the time when I built my first home studio that I rediscovered the mystery novel. In my living room were a...
When I was in high school, I loved to write incendiary satirical articles for the school paper about then-fashionable topics like war, racism, drugs...
Welcome to the GSPoT! the kid grinned at me. Mr. Grumpmeier told us you were coming. We're really happy you're going to write about...
The most dangerous man in the music business is on his third, or maybe his fourth, company. He's been selling audio software on the...
Computer companies rarely make audio or music hardware. There have been exceptions: If you've been around a while, you may recall that Atari included
One of the best parts of moderating Mix Forums online (www.mixforums.com) is that I get to read and, most of the time, approve all...
Ah, the tapeless studio. A dream of so many for so many years, it is now upon us. There's no longer a need for...
One of the things I like the most about the pro audio business is that almost everybody I know is in it because they...
September is back-to-school month. Mix's Education Issue runs in November (go figure). But for some of us, like those who teach audio and music...
Last month, I complained about the inability of the many digital radios in my house to receive my favorite public station. Before that, I...
It isn't often that I can, in the space of a few days, learn about a new application of digital technology in audio, connect...
Remember the saying, "You sound like a broken record"? It's origin, of course, is from the (first) days of vinyl. Today, of course, that...
Like most of us, when I was a kid, I suffered from a bad case of technolust. Among my favorite reading matter were catalogs...
Once in a great while, I get the chance to talk to and write about a rising young musical star like the one in...
Note to readers: An active discussion on this topic, which includes information about the musicians' earplugs I mention in the article, is underway in
SampleCell has been a mainstay of Mac-based musicians and sound designers for a number of years. The software integrates perfectly with any sequencer
Following up on last month's column (which you can read at mixonline.com), I've been looking heavily into software synthesis. This semester, I built a
As we turn over the calendar to another New Year, we in the audio industry find ourselves asking the age-old question: Will we still...
I usually write Insider Audio about two months before it's published. So this month's column was supposed to be about the New York City...
Last month, I was describing a video project from Hell: a short documentary film that I was producing and writing that should have taken...
If you were around during the bad old days of the first computerized music and digital audio tools, say 10 to 15 years ago,...
In one recent week, I could have seen the following shows within 10 miles of my home: A Beatles tribute band who sold out...
Drop or Non-Drop? Pull-Up or Pull-Down? Thirty or 29? And what the heck is 23.976? All questions that strike terror into the hearts of...
I got fat pipes in my house last month. No, I didn't redo the plumbing or buy an old church organ: I got high-speed...
If you want to see just how totally out of control the high-tech universe is, then go to your favorite Internet search engine and...