By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 03/01/2004

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...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 02/01/2004

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...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 01/01/2004

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...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 07/01/2003

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...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 06/01/2003

It was around the time when I built my first home studio that I rediscovered the mystery novel. In my living room were a...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 05/01/2003

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...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 04/01/2003

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...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 02/01/2003

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

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 12/01/2002

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...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 08/01/2002

Last month, I complained about the inability of the many digital radios in my house to receive my favorite public station. Before that, I...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 07/01/2002

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...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 05/01/2002

Like most of us, when I was a kid, I suffered from a bad case of technolust. Among my favorite reading matter were catalogs...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 04/01/2002

Once in a great while, I get the chance to talk to and write about a rising young musical star like the one in...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 02/01/2002

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

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 01/01/2002

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...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 12/01/2001

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...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 11/01/2001

Last month, I was describing a video project from Hell: a short documentary film that I was producing and writing that should have taken...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 10/01/2001

If you were around during the bad old days of the first computerized music and digital audio tools, say 10 to 15 years ago,...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 09/01/2001

In one recent week, I could have seen the following shows within 10 miles of my home: A Beatles tribute band who sold out...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 08/01/2001

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...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 07/01/2001

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...

By Paul Lehrman ⋅ Published: 06/01/2001

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...