‘Jagged Little Pill’ Takes the Stage
The Intimacy of Songs and Story, with Some Good Ol’ Rock and Roll
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The Intimacy of Songs and Story, with Some Good Ol’ Rock and Roll
MISUSING THE LEGAL SYSTEM HURTS US ALL “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” — Shakespeare, Henry VI Actually, let’s not. The...
Editor's note: This article also appears in the October issue of Internet Audio magazine.
New Format to Spotlight Creative Audio Teams The Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio has announced the nominees for the 17th Annual Technical Excellence
Component-level repair has become almost a lost art, as service manuals increasingly show how to disconnect and remove the...
Last month I talked about some recent additions to the MIDI Specification that will help to keep it alive and relevant in the 21st...
Keeping an old friend young — MIDI in the age of USB and Firewire, part 1
WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT RSI, PART II Since I wrote last month's "Insider Audio" on repetitive strain injuries in the recording studio, I...
A friend of mine who writes for one of the computer magazines, and who also happens to be a wonderful musician, gave me a...
The first weekend of April, no joke, I got to take part in a concert in one of the great performing spaces on Earth,...
Four years ago, a small Northern California company called Berkley Integrated Audio Software (named for its president, not the city), or BIAS, came out
Like too many people these days, I spend way too much time on the Internet. One of the reasons is that the new rules...
How do you define audio fidelity? Is it the signal-to-noise ratio, the frequency response, the distortion? Is it the number of channels, bits or...
Last month, I decried the problems of dealing with tech support lines at companies whose hardware and software we expect-often unrealistically-to work
Tech support. Two words that strike terror in the hearts of studio personnel and manufacturing executives alike. The former because they know that once
Keeping on last month's topic of travel, the great thing about getting out of your own country for a while is that you realize...
No one speaks English, and everything's broken...- Tom Waits, "Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)"There is not a more self-centered
The other night I went to the opening of a production of a very hip Broadway musical, put on by the students at the...
This month, I mark my 20th anniversary as a professional audio writer. Okay, stop yawning. I know you don't want to read another deadly...
First of all, don't worry about the sunscreen. For the next four years, where you're going to be spending all your time, you're not...
I ran into my buddy Grumpmeier at the local Electronics Land the other day, as I was mulling over a new microwave with more...
Audio on the Internet. Does that intrigue you or scare you? If you work for a large record company, or your business depends on...
In 1971, I wrote a college paper on the use of electronic music studio techniques in popular music. The paper, one of the favorite...
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ=MSFT) announced today a change in the release schedule of its new operating system, Windows 2000, explaining that extra time was
Where does the spark of creativity come from when new tools and systems are designed? Is it from freedom, or from pressure? Can an...
You might be relieved to know that this is going to be my last column about dealing with upgrades-at least for a while. It's...
Last month in this column I started yet another discussion on the myriad dangers facing studio owners from the constant pressure to upgrade gear,...