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Nashville Skyline, April 2010
We live in a world where we’re barraged every day by how bad things are,” says Phil Madeira, the multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer who...
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Nashville Skyline, March 2010
Robb Earls is 25 years into his Sound Vortex business: a quarter-century in Nashville, and nary a mainstream country record. Earls and house engineer/producer
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Nashville Skyline, February 2010
Big Kenny Alphin of Big and Rich Last Dollar personal recording studio profiled in Mix February 2010 issue by Peter Cooper
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Nashville Skyline, January 2010
Ricky Skaggs' fascination with recording studios began in the late 1970s, when he joined Emmylou Harris' Hot Band and began studying the techniques of
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Nashville Skyline, December 2009
Eric Conn's life shifted with the change of a head stack. I was a music major in college, but I didn't know anything about...
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Nashville Skyline, November 2009
There were a couple of ways to look at the situation. Well, I knew it was going to be a challenge, says acoustician David...
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Nashville Skyline, October 2009
Carl Tatz's parents used to leave him in the house sometimes when they left for an evening out. That's when the speakers would get...
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Nashville Skyline, September 2009
On his first night in Nashville, R.S. Field headed for the women's dormitory at Vanderbilt University. There, coeds wiggled around in a little basement
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Nashville Skyline, August 2009
With the help of a cappuccino machine, some ribbon mics and a Chris Huston-designed home studio, Grand Ole Opry member Steve Wariner set about...
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Nashville Skyline, July 2009
Brent Maher sits in the control room of The Blue Room, his recording studio in Nashville's Berry Hill neighborhood. Lots of folks were sitting...
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Nashville Skyline, June 2009
Nashville guitarist and producer Doug Lancio talks about how he put together his new recording studio using gear from Patty Griffin’s studio and his...
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Nashville Skyline, April 2009
Read Nashville columnist Peter Cooper interview with engineer joe Costa and artist Ben Folds on mixing the Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella 2009...
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Nashville Skyline, March 2009
Read Nashville columnist Peter Cooper interview with engineer associate producer mixer Luke Wooten and co-producer Brett Beavers on recording Dierks Bentley's Feel That Fire...
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Nashville Skyline, February 2009
Read Nashville columnist Peter Cooper interview with producer Tom Hambridge on recording Buddy Guy Skin Deep Album
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Nashville Skyline, January 2009
Jimmy Nichols talks about converting Nashville hitmaker Ronnie Milsap’s Groundstar Studios into the new Ronnie’s Place
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Nashville Skyline, December 2008
Nashville-based mastering engineers Andrew Mendelson, Jim DeMain and Joe Palmaccio discuss the pressure to make recordings louder and louder
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Nashville Skyline, October 2008
Jamey Johnson’s That Lonesome Song is an old-style Nashville country album made with modern recording tools
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Nashville Skyline, August 2008
In Nashville, celebrities are often treated just like other human beings. Lyle Lovett can eat among the Pancake Pantry proletariat without being hassled
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Nashville Skyline, July 2008
Charged with producing vocals on the King of Broken Hearts himself, Buddy Cannon figured it was best to be smiling and positive. After all,...
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Nashville Skyline, June 2008
There are manuals, for sure. And aspiring producers can follow directions in learning to tune vocals, set compression ratios and manage signal chains.
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Mix Interview: Cowboy Jack Clement
50-PLUS YEARS AFTER THE SUN DAYS, HE'S STILL IN THE "FUN BUSINESS"
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Nashville Skyline, May 2008
The trap door is cool, even if Elvis Presley never got to go through it. Oh, yeah, I had a set of stairs with...
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Nashville Skyline, April 2008
Asked to close the door, I'm having trouble. Heavy, isn't it? asks Kevin Kritch, the Great American Country cable network's VP of studio operations....
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Nashville Skyline, March 2008
I get to listen while I write. Right now, I'm hearing Tom T. Hall singing The Girl Who Read the Same Book All the...
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