Paul D. Lehrman

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Apr 1, 2006

HOW NOT TO GET CAUGHT IN THE WEB

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Jun 1, 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 ⋅ Apr 1, 2001

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

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Mar 1, 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 ⋅ Feb 1, 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 ⋅ Jan 1, 2001

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

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Dec 1, 2000

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

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Nov 1, 2000

A GUIDE TO CHOOSING A RECORDING EDUCATION

By Paul D. Lehrman ⋅ Sep 1, 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 ⋅ Aug 1, 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 ⋅ Jul 1, 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 ⋅ Jul 1, 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 ⋅ Jun 1, 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 ⋅ Mar 1, 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 ⋅ Feb 1, 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 ⋅ Jan 1, 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 ⋅ Dec 1, 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 ⋅ Nov 1, 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 ⋅ Oct 1, 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 ⋅ Sep 1, 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 ⋅ Aug 1, 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 ⋅ Jul 1, 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 ⋅ Jun 1, 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 ⋅ May 1, 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 ⋅ Apr 1, 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 ⋅ Mar 1, 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 ⋅ Feb 1, 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...