Paul D. Lehrman

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 04/01/2006

HOW NOT TO GET CAUGHT IN THE WEB

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 06/01/2001

New Format to Spotlight Creative Audio Teams The Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio has announced the nominees for the 17th Annual Technical Excellence

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 04/01/2001

Paul takes a break while long-time resident curmedgeon Professor Phineas T. Grumpmeier answers readers' questions!

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 03/01/2001

Component-level repair has become almost a lost art, as service manuals increasingly show how to disconnect and remove the...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 02/01/2001

Last month I talked about some recent additions to the MIDI Specification that will help to keep it alive and relevant in the 21st...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 01/01/2001

Keeping an old friend young — MIDI in the age of USB and Firewire, part 1

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 12/01/2000

The 3-CD "OHM" collection revisits the dawn of electronic music.

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 11/01/2000

A GUIDE TO CHOOSING A RECORDING EDUCATION

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 09/01/2000

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...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 08/01/2000

A friend of mine who writes for one of the computer magazines, and who also happens to be a wonderful musician, gave me a...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 07/01/2000

The first weekend of April, no joke, I got to take part in a concert in one of the great performing spaces on Earth,...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 07/01/2000

Four years ago, a small Northern California company called Berkley Integrated Audio Software (named for its president, not the city), or BIAS, came out

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 06/01/2000

Like too many people these days, I spend way too much time on the Internet. One of the reasons is that the new rules...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 03/01/2000

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...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 02/01/2000

Last month, I decried the problems of dealing with tech support lines at companies whose hardware and software we expect-often unrealistically-to work

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 01/01/2000

Tech support. Two words that strike terror in the hearts of studio personnel and manufacturing executives alike. The former because they know that once

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 12/01/1999

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...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 11/01/1999

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

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 10/01/1999

The other night I went to the opening of a production of a very hip Broadway musical, put on by the students at the...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 09/01/1999

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...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 08/01/1999

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...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 07/01/1999

I ran into my buddy Grumpmeier at the local Electronics Land the other day, as I was mulling over a new microwave with more...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 06/01/1999

Audio on the Internet. Does that intrigue you or scare you? If you work for a large record company, or your business depends on...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 05/01/1999

In 1971, I wrote a college paper on the use of electronic music studio techniques in popular music. The paper, one of the favorite...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 04/01/1999

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ=MSFT) announced today a change in the release schedule of its new operating system, Windows 2000, explaining that extra time was

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 03/01/1999

Where does the spark of creativity come from when new tools and systems are designed? Is it from freedom, or from pressure? Can an...

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Published: 02/01/1999

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...