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A few nights ago, some of my coworkers were discussing the song “Bad Guy” by Billie Eilish, the video for which has collected more...
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A few nights ago, some of my coworkers were discussing the song “Bad Guy” by Billie Eilish, the video for which has collected more...
Over the weekend, I read a fascinating op-ed in the New York Times called “How to Build Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust.” Its basic...
By Clive Young. The site where the first country music hit was recorded stands at the center of a legal battle in Atlanta that...
By Steve Harvey. This book by Grammy-winning producer, engineer and mixer Mark Howard and his brother, Chris Howard, is an album-by-album account of working...
I’m lucky to have a close-knit family and we often find excuses to get together, whether it be for a holiday, a birthday or...
Here’s a thought exercise. Imagine you had to mix the same song twice, in different studios with different monitors (I know that sounds like...
Craig Anderton ponders whether the music software industry will take the services route to offset maturing sales.
Peter Janis explains why first-class manufacturing, a well-oiled administration and excellent customer service are important, but mean nothing without sales.
By Frank Filipetti. These days, any space can suddenly become a recording studio. If you’re working in an up-and-coming facility also known as the...
One of the issues that I deal with on a constant basis is making a P.A. sound good for the front rows of a...
A couple of weeks ago, Katy Perry and some members of her production team were hit with a $2.8 million copyright-infringement verdict, which stated...
That hum in the system has got to go—here’s how to banish it to audio oblivion.
I almost never have the luxury of touring with production, so on any given show there are a ton of variables in the P.A....
The Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer shares some thoughts on keeping an ear to your mix and an eye on yourself.
I have a modular music system in my house that has speakers in three different rooms. It’s super-convenient, allowing me to listen to the...
Peter Janis, former CEO of Radial Engineering, discusses ways to get creative when it comes to creating demand for your pro audio product.
By George Massenburg. The multi Grammy-winning METAlliance co-founder explores the perils and pitfalls of modern loudness and explains why mastering engineers and artists who...
By Craig Anderton. Deep dive into the new Mac Pro and discover what it means for audio pros.
When last we left my Ampex 351 Audio Dinosaur, I had installed a newly rebuilt power supply, ensuring that all sections of the 351...
By Clive Young. Concerts are scientifically proven to be good for your health; now they're becoming less bad for the Earth, too.
Back in the analog era, it was easier to fully master the gear in your studio because, unless you were working in a large...
I’ve only met Linda Perry once, and it was for no more than two or three minutes last January at NAMM.
July 5, 2019, 11:30 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time I return to my hotel room after a gig at the Rialto Theatre in Tucson, Ariz....
Do your plug-ins have a good working relationship with your DAW? Sounds like a silly question, right? After all, plug-ins by their nature are...
By Frank Filipetti. This month, the METAlliance is taking a different tack. They call it “METABollocks,” as they sound off on all the studio...
Peter Janis delves deeper into controlling your pro audio company’s destiny.
At the close of the first episode of “Resurrecting an Audio Dinosaur,” my lovely Ampex 351 tape machine channel was alive and working—though I...
By Craig Anderton. While podcasting started out with homegrown audio, listeners’ expectations are rising fast—creating a new opportunity for audio pros.
By Clive Young. The new Statue of Liberty Museum makes effective use of modern AV technology, as evidenced by the lump in your throat.
This week, I’m going to deviate from the usual studio-related subject matter to talk about a more general issue. Have you noticed how in...
You’re looking at the electronics for a single channel of an Ampex 351 tape machine that was built in the early 1950s. Ampex manufactured...
By Dennis Baxter. After talking to many of my colleagues, I will confidently say that if a sound mixer can reasonably hear immersive sound,...
More than ever, you have options for acquiring music software. You can buy it, subscribe to it and, in a more recent development, rent-to-own...
By Clive Young. While podcasting has been around for 15 years, it’s only in the last few that the format has exploded.
By Peter Janis. Change is inevitable. In business, you are either growing or dying a slow death; no business simply stays the same.
By Chris Curran. Podcasting has exploded to become a mainstream media format, but most of its practitioners are audio engineering novices—an irony that’s creating...